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Forum: Australia
Sep 9th 2010, 2:20 am
Replies: 1,142
Views: 59,407
Posted By bcworld

Re: The Sensible Australian Election Thread

If they won't be around much longer, and if you believe it's obvious they went against the will of their electorate and will be booted out asap, how was it in their own best interest? Seems to me...
Forum: Australia
Sep 8th 2010, 11:11 am
Replies: 1,142
Views: 59,407
Posted By bcworld

Re: The Sensible Australian Election Thread

Yup...Johnny Howard, for example, did a fantastic job (http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/06/27/why-john-howard-never-made-the-cover-of-euromoney/) as treasurer!
Forum: Australia
Sep 1st 2010, 5:54 am
Replies: 1,142
Views: 59,407
Posted By bcworld

Re: The Sensible Australian Election Thread

It's in black and white though.

http://resources.news.com.au/files/2010/09/01/1225912/745814-greens-alp-deal.pdf

If anything's going on under the table - well that applies to all parties...
Forum: Australia
Sep 1st 2010, 4:52 am
Replies: 1,142
Views: 59,407
Posted By bcworld

Re: The Sensible Australian Election Thread

Surely it was obvious as soon as the hung parliament was known that the Greens MP would get into bed with Labor - it will hardly have come as a shock to the other independents.

No doubt all of the...
Forum: Australia
Aug 31st 2010, 1:48 am
Replies: 1,142
Views: 59,407
Posted By bcworld

Re: The Sensible Australian Election Thread

Labor back in front by 500 votes! :rofl:
Forum: Australia
Aug 30th 2010, 11:15 pm
Replies: 1,142
Views: 59,407
Posted By bcworld

Re: The Sensible Australian Election Thread

Except in this case, with an inconclusive outcome, even the national 2PP number matters and should be complete & correct. If it were to finish up with just a few thousand votes in it I think we...
Forum: Australia
Aug 30th 2010, 9:39 am
Replies: 1,142
Views: 59,407
Posted By bcworld

Re: The Sensible Australian Election Thread

A seat in Vic has gone from Labor, back to doubtful...presumably Corangamite.
Forum: Australia
Aug 30th 2010, 8:20 am
Replies: 1,142
Views: 59,407
Posted By bcworld

Re: The Sensible Australian Election Thread

Anyone notice the latest 2 party preferred national numbers!?

http://vtr.aec.gov.au/

ALP: 50.02%
Coalition: 49.98%

(at 18:20 today)

:eek:
Forum: Australia
Aug 28th 2010, 12:32 am
Replies: 1,142
Views: 59,407
Posted By bcworld

Re: The Sensible Australian Election Thread

I think some people would. If people have voted a certain way as a protest vote thinking it wouldn't do any harm to the outcome they really favoured - they can now see that in fact those protest...
Forum: Australia
Aug 27th 2010, 3:00 am
Replies: 1,142
Views: 59,407
Posted By bcworld

Re: The Sensible Australian Election Thread

The gap in the national 2PP result keeps getting smaller too...from about 1.3% to less than 1% now.

Labor 50.49%
Coalition 49.51%
Forum: Australia
Aug 27th 2010, 12:30 am
Replies: 1,142
Views: 59,407
Posted By bcworld

Re: The Sensible Australian Election Thread

Talking of Queensland...here's what my local Labor MP had to say on election night:

“I don’t care what bogans and rednecks think elsewhere we stand up for it here and our opinions count as much as...
Forum: Australia
Aug 26th 2010, 6:50 am
Replies: 1,142
Views: 59,407
Posted By bcworld

Re: The Sensible Australian Election Thread

....the gap is getting bigger in the Libs favour again.
Forum: Australia
Aug 24th 2010, 4:54 am
Replies: 1,142
Views: 59,407
Posted By bcworld

Re: The Sensible Australian Election Thread

...and it's NOT 'DOUBTFUL'...same as it wasn't doubtful when they gave it to Labor! :confused: :lol:
Forum: Australia
Aug 24th 2010, 4:42 am
Replies: 1,142
Views: 59,407
Posted By bcworld

Re: The Sensible Australian Election Thread

...looks like the dead heat may be off.

The AEC is giving Denison, Tas to the independent again:

http://vtr.aec.gov.au/HouseDivisionFirstPrefs-15508-194.htm
Forum: Australia
Aug 23rd 2010, 11:12 pm
Replies: 1,142
Views: 59,407
Posted By bcworld

Re: The Sensible Australian Election Thread

Not much of one according to this:

Recriminations fly over loss of Eden-Monaro (http://www.theage.com.au/federal-election/recriminations-fly-over-loss-of-edenmonaro-20100823-13in6.html)
Forum: Australia
Aug 16th 2010, 6:53 am
Replies: 1,142
Views: 59,407
Posted By bcworld

Re: The Sensible Australian Election Thread

WAs maybe, Qld's economy is nothing to write home about - average at best.
Forum: Australia
Aug 3rd 2010, 7:38 am
Replies: 1,142
Views: 59,407
Posted By bcworld

Re: The Sensible Australian Election Thread

Most times door to door in about 3 hours. Even in the straightest line, assuming the straightest line was feasible, its 700km+ Melb - Syd. Can't really see a train competing...very much depends on...
Forum: Australia
Aug 3rd 2010, 4:01 am
Replies: 1,142
Views: 59,407
Posted By bcworld

Re: The Sensible Australian Election Thread

I just don't see this desperate need. Driving between Australia's major cities once outside the city limits you come across largely empty roads, even though many of them aren't even dual carriageway.
Forum: Australia
Jul 20th 2010, 11:39 pm
Replies: 1,142
Views: 59,407
Posted By bcworld

Re: The Sensible Australian Election Thread

I did go to liberal.org.au and there is a policies tab - was looking for the gospel truth on the net filter. So I clicked on infrastructre. Then you get an 'internet filtering' option...sounds...
Forum: Australia
Jul 19th 2010, 10:25 pm
Replies: 1,142
Views: 59,407
Posted By bcworld

Re: The Sensible Australian Election Thread

You never know (no, really, you don't!) - it may have been the 'gospel truth'.
Forum: Australia
Jul 18th 2010, 7:53 am
Replies: 1,142
Views: 59,407
Posted By bcworld

Re: The Sensible Australian Election Thread

Did he say whether we could consider that as a 'carefully prepared & scripted' response...or was it just something he said because it sounded good at the time?
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