Australians come to their senses – March 24th will be remembered as the day they collectively said “we’re tired of this sh**” Commenter “truthseeker” writes in comments:
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Anthony,
You may want to refer to Jo Nova’s latest post about the results of a state election down under.
Now for all of you nice people from the USA who may not think state elections are that big a deal if you do not live in that state, please remember that we only have 6 states and 2 territories, not 50 like you guys. We just had an election in Queensland, one of our most economically important states, especially for mineral wealth representing about a quarter of the population. Before the election the Labour (think Democrat) held a small majority in the 89 seat Lower House (House of Representatives).
With over 70% of the vote counted, the results are;
Liberal / National Party coalition (think Republicans – sort of) – 78 seats
Labour (think Democrat) – 7 seats
KAP (new party – think TEA party with less logic and more strangeness) – 2 seats
Independents – 2 seats.
A mini-van will have more seats than the previously incumbent Labour party in the new parliament.
I have one word for this … OUCH!
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Jo Nova writes:
Those devastating Queensland Election Results: Voters hate lies and the Carbon Tax
UPDATE: Is this a record? Has there ever been a loss this bad in Australian history? Conservatives likely to win 74 seats of an 89 seat parliament.
Labor was reduced to only 11 seats in 1974, and on latest counting tonight appeared set to retain only nine seats. Some analysts put the figure even lower, at seven. This would mean Labor falling short of official party status and relying on the incoming LNP government to grant it party offices, staff and resources. The Queensland Greens failed to win a seat and suffered a fall in support. [The Australian]
This is thread for all those who want to comment on this election. According to Bolt, things are not just bad, they’re seriously awful for the Labor Party. Newspoll says LNP (conservatives) 55%, Labor 26%. Channel Nines polls says Labor could be left with less than 10 seats!
The ABC’s election predictor at 8:26 has LNP on 67 seats, Labor on four, others five, doubtful 15. Absolutely catastrophic for Labor. The current leader of the Labor Party in Queensland is Anna Bligh facing a 13% swing against her, and will need preferences just to stay in Parliament.
March 24, 2012, will be remembered as the day the electorate delivered a decisive, devastating blow to an incumbent Labor government. Courier Mail
For non-Australians, Australia has seven states (technically 5 states and 2 territories), and in 2007 all the States and the Federal Government were Labor. Currently Liberal (meaning conservative) governments have won NSW, WA, and Vic and now look like taking a landslide in Queensland. These are the four largest states.
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Andrew Bolt has this update:
Queensland election – and why it spells death to Gillard
Andrew Bolt March 24 2012 (5:52pm)
Here is the bottom line from the rout of Labor in today’s Queensland election – the line that spells doom for Julia Gillard, too.
Premier Anna Bligh, 2008:
I will not kick (Queensland households) when they are down and I will not abolish the petrol subsidy.
Three months after the 2009 election:
THE Bligh government will scrap its 8.35 cent per litre fuel subsidy and hold a multi-billion dollar fire sale of State-owned assets to offset a plunge in revenues during the global financial crisis.
And that was already that, as the next Galaxy poll showed, two months later:
There has been a dramatic swing to the Opposition, with a 59-41 lead on a two-party-preferred basis – a 10 point swing from the March 21 state election… And Ms Bligh’s popularity rating has hit an all-time low for a Queensland premier at 33 per cent.
Remind you of anyone?:
Anna Bligh broke a pre-election promise, and hiked up people’s bills. She immediately lost the public’s trust and never regained it, although got a brief sugar hit during the 2011 floods.
Julia Gillard broke a pre-election promise, and is already hiking up people’s bills. She immediately lost the public’s trust and never regained it.
The analogy still not close enough?
Sky News exit polls show voters were most concerned about the Cost of Living (69 per cent), followed by Delivery of State Services (63 per cent), Carbon Tax (44 per cent)
How do you think Gillard will do in Queensland next year?
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Traveling in a fried-out combie
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
Surprisingly appropriate.
Thats not a minivan! This is a minivan!
http://www.ssplprints.com/image/83137/exton-david-morris-minivan-1961
To the voters in the USA – WE can do the same thing this November. Tired of paying for billions for Climate Ca$h, Green Fails (e.g. Solyndra), unaccountable Green Climate Funds, and draconian EPA regulations? VOTE!!
BTW – voting means voting in people who will restore fiscal and regulatory sanity from the local levels (Mayor, State Rep) up to the President. In fact, your state representatives are arguably more important than the congressional representatives and senators.
Does this mean Australia got ‘kochblocked’? Clearly their reach is limitless. When not making paper cups and cardboard boxes, the world kneels before Wichita.
On a side note, I see “6 states and 2 territories” as well as “5 states and 2 territories” up top….off to figure it out myself. I hope the excitement you all exude as residents of Australia converts into good governance; rather than 2 bad options over here.
There is a great tsunami of ruin about to rush over the entire planet purging it of the greatest scam in human history.
Exciting times while watching the human race cure one of the worst viruses ever.
Even here in Oregon an uprising is boiling up to end this travesty.
Inevitably can be felt everywhere.
Its only a question of time before Gillard is dumped by her party in an attempt to save themselves.
The surfers’ van in the photo is far too functional to be Labour.
I think Compo’s Commer would be about right:
http://www.steamin.in/RDC/Mildenhall120507.htm
Hey, Labor !
How’s that….”Benenovolent Dictator”….thing working for you ?
Don’t get too excited! Looking at the Australian Liberal party’s website they are full of the same climate change bull and solar for 1 million homes rubbish as every other political party.
Vote UKIP (or Tea Party).
Oh, and more Slayers articles please?
I’ll just reiterate the congratulations to all Queenslanders proffered earlier on Jo’s blog, and good wishes to the Australians on their future day of national liberation.
Sadly, this leaves the UK as the only major country in the English-speaking world without a clear electoral choice on AGW,etc. Please send help – we will soon be needing portable generators and pre-cooked food.
I have known many aussies and worked with them. There was never any doubt in my mind that 3rd generation and before aussie would react. Earlier generations have a concentration of whinging [SNIP: let’s not do that or go there, OK? -REP]
Well done the aussies.
Tie me Labouroo down sport.
Bye bye carbon tax nutcases.
Sounds encouraging.
I await further updates with bated breath.
Given that it’s about getting off the road to serfdom, the Tea Party probably isn’t ‘strange’ enough.
It’s true, and remarkably incomprehensible that, while the Tea Party followers are being misrepresented and falsely vilified in the Main Stream Media, the (Occupy) Trash Wall Street group of thugs are being held in High Regard by the same MSM. What they don’t seem to realize is that, while they are referring to themselves as the 99%, those poor unfortunates that can’t even afford to wipe their backsides without Government subsidies (redistribution of wealth) or “Pulling a Robin Hood scam”, World wide they are the 10% that everyone else will look to take from for the world wide redistribution schemes.
I guess what Dr Savage says is true…”Liberalism IS a Mental Disorder”
Good on yer, mates – that’s a fair dinkum walloping. The party with no members will soon be in the outback drinking in the “pub with no beer”!
Hurray for the Australians! I hope some of that sanity spreads to the U.S. next November.
I don’t find the Tea Party strange at all. What I do find strange is the notion that someone who believes in personal responsibility, that government follow the Constitution and operate in a fiscally responsible manner is an extreme right winger….. and that some political leaders can say that in public without fear of losing their job.
Max Hugoson: “We’ve seen this BEFORE, where Aussieland and England PRECEED the USA…”
Man the greenshirts have a stranglehold in Britain. We’ve been hoping that Global Warmery will be rejected by the colonies first, allowing us to catch up with that new zeitgeist. If the AGW scare collapses first in Australia or America or Timbuktu first… well it’s all good news!
New South Wales had a similar result not so very long ago. The Labor party lost seats it had held for 60 years. That’s two states down.
Three cheers for all my Aussie friends, let’s hope that we can to the same in this country in November.
Congratulations! This is the way to do it.
Hope this will be a leading example for the rest of your country and for other countries as well.
Keep on fighting! Victory is near!
Ten seats for Labor might be overly optimistic; they may well end up with only seven. Cairns was won by the LNP after returning a Labor member for 100 years. Even porn site owner Mark Boothman has won the seat of Gold Coast. Interesting times…
Labour is one of three major parties in Australia. The National Party died out in the 80’s but often makes a coalition with Liberal in order to gain power.
What I’m saying is; there are lot of life time supporters of the Labour Party. To understand a result like this, you’ve got to understand a lot of life time supporters of Labour have voted elsewhere. I’ve always been a swinging voter, but after the last 10 years of Labour, I’m so furious with their brainless tactics I’ve sworn never to vote Labour again. I hate them with such fury.
The message to President Obama is clear. Ditch all your silly global warming programmes , stop subsidising useless carbon reduction programmes. kick the nation – ruining Green fanatics out of your policy making and get back to running a country with common sense, for the financial benefit of the people rather than burdening them with more and more costs in the ridiculous endeavour to combat non – existant global warming. Ignore all the false scaremongering ‘science’ being put out by those who stand to gain most from promoting the scare. Get back to reality in governing your country and you will stand a chance at getting re elected. Without that policy change, you will be as dead as the Australian Labour Party will be at the next election.
Where is the box when I’m voting that says- None Of The Above- . What choice do I have ? A party (Labor) that wants to tax the atmosphere or Liberal/National Party who want to remove penalty rates -(again) and drive normal Australian’s into serf like conditions (again ) . I vote none of these tools on offer .