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WA election post

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Written by Sinclair Davidson

March 9th, 2013 at 9:47 pm

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Andrew

9 Mar 13 at 9:53 pm
First

hehehe Labor won’t be saying that.

Gab

9 Mar 13 at 9:54 pm
Is it possible that the two main parties in WA will become the Libs and the Nats?

dd

9 Mar 13 at 9:57 pm
Antony Green calling the election already.

Andrew

9 Mar 13 at 9:57 pm
Greenfilth being decimated also.
Happy days, happy days.

Huckleberry Chunkwot

9 Mar 13 at 9:57 pm
It will be important to bear in mind the role of federal issues in the WA state poll when it comes to the ABC’s overwhelming inclination tomorrow morning to lie about what happened today:

LABOR strategist Bruce Hawker has predicted “a hard night” for the West Australian ALP, as counting got underway in a state election expected to return Colin Barnett to power.

Mr Hawker made the prediction as Sky News exit polling showed that 51 per cent of voters considered the performance of the federal Labor government to be an important factor in the way they voted.

The most important factor was energy costs, which the exit poll found was important to 55 per cent of voters. The cost of living was rated important by 34 per cent, the carbon tax by 33 per cent, and the mining tax by 33 per cent.

“I think it’s going to be a hard night for Labor tonight,” Mr Hawker said.

Expectations that the Liberal-Nationals will easily retain power tonight have been bolstered by a Newspoll in today’s Weekend Australian, which gave the coalition a commanding two-party preferred lead over Labor of 59.5 per cent to 40.5 per cent.

Tom

9 Mar 13 at 9:58 pm
dd, not it isnt.

Looks like today’s Newspoll is being replicated, which is surprising.

Andrew

9 Mar 13 at 9:58 pm
Has Red Kerry’s toupee gotten bigger or just my imagination?

Gab

9 Mar 13 at 9:58 pm
Labor are getting smashed.

Sean

9 Mar 13 at 9:59 pm
Just flicked over to the coverage for a moment and it looks like it’s over already. Massive swing to the Libs.

tbh

9 Mar 13 at 9:59 pm
Enjoying this so far

Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.

9 Mar 13 at 9:59 pm
Gab, Kerry is very sad.

Andrew

9 Mar 13 at 9:59 pm
Purely state issues with no relevance to Gillard.

/ABC Insiders.

———————————————

Abbott in trouble because of Ballieu’s ouster.

/ABC Insiders.

C.L.

9 Mar 13 at 10:02 pm
Can’t help but feel good. Given what Labor/Greens have done to the electorate a goodly amount of epicaricacy is to be expected.

Gab

9 Mar 13 at 10:03 pm
Federal Galaxy Poll LNP 55 (+1) ALP (-1)

Andrew

9 Mar 13 at 10:03 pm
If the 2PP polling was 60/40 without Julia, what would it have been like with Julia? 70/30?

It will be interesting where Green preferences go this time. Rather ominous one would think.

Splatacrobat

9 Mar 13 at 10:05 pm
6:57pm: Antony Green says he should be ready to call the election “in a couple of minutes”.

Har har har

Keith

9 Mar 13 at 10:06 pm
Voted for the local ALP candidate… because he actually had some policies other than mandatory 7.5 year sentences for home invaders, the other bloke was a memeber of the TRG and had policed here, no other policies, nothing. A truly shocking candidate pick by the incumbents.
The sad part is that the wastrils party actually had some sort of coherent plan for WA transport and Perth developmentally, Barnett and Co have speed cameras, Elizabeth Quay, tougher sentencing and redeveloping the the richest beachside areas of Perth into (drumrollz) rich beachside areas.
I don’t think the ALP has any real chance but I won’t just vote for rubbish parliamentarians because they aren’t the “ALP”. Nice chap and all but I wouldn’t have him over at my BBQs.

Simon

9 Mar 13 at 10:06 pm
Abc…Alp…what’s the difference. LOL

Gab

9 Mar 13 at 10:06 pm
Kerry calls ALP, ABC. ROFL!!!

Andrew

9 Mar 13 at 10:06 pm
Red Kerry confuses the ABC and ALP again.

Sinclair Davidson

9 Mar 13 at 10:06 pm
The thing you must remembervaboutvWA is that we are all filthy rich. And we are not filthy rich in that “my husbands a pox doctor’s clerk” kind of way. We have all toiled for our wealth. If you think we are going to elect socialist filth, think again.

Infidel Tiger

9 Mar 13 at 10:07 pm
“Remember about WA.”

Goddamn Steve Jobs.

Infidel Tiger

9 Mar 13 at 10:08 pm
I am officially moving out of union haven Victoria to WA!!!

Andrew

9 Mar 13 at 10:09 pm
The thing you must remembervaboutvWA is that we are all filthy rich. And we are not filthy rich in that “my husbands a pox doctor’s clerk” kind of way. We have all toiled for our wealth. If you think we are going to elect socialist filth, think again.

Yep.

tbh

9 Mar 13 at 10:09 pm
Red Kerry confuses the ABC and ALP again.

It is an easy mistake to make.

Seve of Ferny Hills

9 Mar 13 at 10:10 pm
Election called.

Andrew

9 Mar 13 at 10:11 pm
Lib 17
Lab 5

But remember we mustn’t write them off.

Keith

9 Mar 13 at 10:12 pm
LOL Julie Bishop rubs it in Smith’s face in such a classy way.

Gab

9 Mar 13 at 10:12 pm
“I think it’s going to be a hard night for Labor tonight,” Mr Hawker said.

Just for emphasis, people!

Rabz

9 Mar 13 at 10:12 pm
Poor Kerry

eam

9 Mar 13 at 10:12 pm
Greenfilth being decimated

It’s important to note that the Greenfilth only have a second senator in the states with the biggest gerrymander — WA, SA and Tas — and their second senators in those states are all standing federally in those states this year. With 7.7%, the AEC has the Greens at 7.9% (down 4%) in WA. That’s slightly less than a quota. I personally think those three Green senators, including Wednesday Addams (aka SHY) in SA are history and Abbott is a good chance of controlling both houses without a double dissolution.

Tom

9 Mar 13 at 10:13 pm
7:09pm: Antony Green says it looks like the Barnett government has been re-elected.

Oh noes

Keith

9 Mar 13 at 10:13 pm
What’s the latest for those not bothered to watch the abc?

brc

9 Mar 13 at 10:13 pm
The comp tonight is between the Nats and the Libs in rural areas.

Infidel Tiger

9 Mar 13 at 10:14 pm
Wow, that was quick. I’ve been trying (although not very hard) to find the election coverage online, because my old CRT with the set top digital thingy for free to air is blocked to the channel the ABC is broadcasting on.

nilk

9 Mar 13 at 10:14 pm
So, a decent dress rehearsal for September*.

*or whenever PM Shorten elects to call an election.

Cold-Hands

9 Mar 13 at 10:15 pm
Has Red Kerry’s toupee gotten bigger or just my imagination?

Must be time for him to hit the nearest posh bar.

And get violently ejected…

Rabz

9 Mar 13 at 10:15 pm
Here’s WA Today’s blog.

nilk

9 Mar 13 at 10:15 pm
The ABC seems to be conducting a live cross to an autopsy.

Infidel Tiger

9 Mar 13 at 10:15 pm
The sad part is that the wastrils party actually had some sort of coherent plan for WA transport and Perth developmentally

Tax it till it dies and then make sweet love to its corpse?

wreckage

9 Mar 13 at 10:17 pm
BLOODBATH!!!!!!

Andrew

9 Mar 13 at 10:17 pm
I personally think those three Green senators, including Wednesday Addams (aka SHY) in SA are history and Abbott is a good chance of controlling both houses without a double dissolution.

Halle bleeping juliar!

Rabz

9 Mar 13 at 10:17 pm
This is like NSW and Qld!

Rabz

9 Mar 13 at 10:19 pm
Buswell 76%!

Rabz

9 Mar 13 at 10:20 pm
Does anyone have the WA AEC URL for the vote count?

Tom

9 Mar 13 at 10:22 pm
Looks like 2pp will be 60-40. Newspoll was right.

Andrew

9 Mar 13 at 10:22 pm
I actually feel sorry for the Labor candidates.

Okay, the moment’s passed.

Gab

9 Mar 13 at 10:22 pm
The unpopular Buswell has a massive swing to him.

Great stuff. He is a terrific bloke who makes the odd misstep when bladdered.

Infidel Tiger

9 Mar 13 at 10:23 pm
Tom, here http://www.elections.wa.gov.au/results/sg2013/la

ev425128

9 Mar 13 at 10:24 pm
Buswell seems like a funny guy from what I have seen of him.

Andrew

9 Mar 13 at 10:24 pm
Tom
Here

Keith

9 Mar 13 at 10:25 pm
FFs, will someone tell the ALPBC bimbo her hair would look infinitely better if it was brushed back, not forward, FFS!

You commie imbeciles (BIRM)!

Rabz

9 Mar 13 at 10:25 pm
Christian Porter – “It’s 7.23 and already we’re talking about blame”.

Sinclair Davidson

9 Mar 13 at 10:25 pm
Thank you, ev425128.

Tom

9 Mar 13 at 10:26 pm
Legislative Council results will be interesting. The Shooters and Fishers Party has preferenced the Greens (via a complex sequence) in 3 areas and the Greens have preferenced the Shooters (similarly convoluted but no doubt about the end result) also in 3.

In the Agricultural region, the Shooters candidate collects preferences from all the other parties. Quite remarkable.

This is the work of the infamous Glenn Druery. I doubt the Shooters and Greens have any idea what he’s done.

DavidLeyonhjelm

9 Mar 13 at 10:26 pm
Half the people in WA wear high viz and steel caps to bed and still we hate that the socialist filth. This is quite a sensible state.

Infidel Tiger

9 Mar 13 at 10:28 pm
Buswell seems like a funny guy from what I have seen of him.

He’s a combination of a gifted economist and bloke with self control issues. I can’t believe he left his wife for Adele Carles, who is a munter of the highest order and a Green to boot.

tbh

9 Mar 13 at 10:28 pm
This is quite a sensible state.

When you’re not sozzled.

Rabz

9 Mar 13 at 10:29 pm
Labor talking heads Stephen Smith and Gary Gray are looking at their futures. Gray is finished in Brand.

I wonder what message they take back to their fellow lemmings in Caucus?

H B Bear

9 Mar 13 at 10:30 pm
And I think it raises the question about the role that Tony Abbott’s playing..

Gab

9 Mar 13 at 10:30 pm
WA Today seems a typical fauxfacts paper. For example, from their Election coverage:

The Libs need 30 seats to govern in their own right; WAtoday.com.au’s own political commentator Darren Brown was brave enough this morning to predict Labor reaching that mark.

Cold-Hands

9 Mar 13 at 10:31 pm
Those that lived have scattered to the wind.

wreckage

9 Mar 13 at 10:32 pm
I wonder what message they take back to their fellow lemmings in Caucus?

Kevni Ruff, I tells ya!

Rabz

9 Mar 13 at 10:32 pm
Stephen Smith seems like a nice guy. One of the adults.

Andrew

9 Mar 13 at 10:33 pm
Stephen Smith seems like a nice guy.

No. He’s a grub.

Sinclair Davidson

9 Mar 13 at 10:35 pm
tephen Smith seems like a nice guy. One of the adults.

Err, no, Andy. Look up his work in defence.

Rabz

9 Mar 13 at 10:35 pm
Stephen Smith seems like a nice guy.

Ask someone from the Department of Defence.

H B Bear

9 Mar 13 at 10:35 pm
Yes, Stephen Smith is keeping an admirably stiff upper lip, considering that he will lose his seat if these results are repeated federally. Credit where credit’s due.

squawkbox

9 Mar 13 at 10:36 pm
Rabz and Sinc, as a person I meant. I don’t like what he’s done.

Andrew

9 Mar 13 at 10:36 pm
Snap. Snap. Snap.

H B Bear

9 Mar 13 at 10:36 pm
Stephen Smith seems like a nice guy. One of the adults.
Except for the indifference (if not contempt) he holds for the servicemen of his portfolio, I might be tempted to agree with you. However given the way that Defence has been gutted under his watch, it is evident that you’re wrong.

Cold-Hands

9 Mar 13 at 10:37 pm
Why is their ABC spending so long talking to Labor loser?

Eddystone

9 Mar 13 at 10:37 pm
if the Libs win enough to govern in their own right, what are the chances of the Nats being bigger than Labor and becoming the official opposition?

Jim Rose

9 Mar 13 at 10:39 pm
Bob Brown didn’t get up

Eddystone

9 Mar 13 at 10:39 pm
Tough night for the ABC.

Andrew

9 Mar 13 at 10:39 pm
if the Libs win enough to govern in their own right, what are the chances of the Nats being bigger than Labor and becoming the official opposition?

Impossible.

Andrew

9 Mar 13 at 10:40 pm
I’ve just looked in, perused the posts here and I am compelled to say how sweet it is! How very sweet it is!

“Antony Green calling the election already” after just 57 minutes”

“Greenfilth being decimated also” … “at 7.9% (down 4%)”

“exit polling … 51 per cent of voters considered the performance of the federal Labor government to be an important factor …”

“Massive swing to the Libs”

“Kerry is very sad” and, unbelievably for a bloke who delusionally regards himself as a professional journalist, “Red Kerry confuses the ABC and ALP again”

“Half the people in WA wear high viz and steel caps to bed and still we hate that the socialist filth. This is quite a sensible state”

Mick Gold Coast QLD

9 Mar 13 at 10:40 pm
Now they’re talking to another Labor loser!

Eddystone

9 Mar 13 at 10:40 pm
I used to think Stephen Smith was alright. But now I have watched how he ‘runs’ defence. He is a tool.

Entropy

9 Mar 13 at 10:40 pm
Why is their ABC spending so long talking to Labor loser?

Like the scorpion said to the frog: it’s in my nature.

Gab

9 Mar 13 at 10:41 pm
Stephen Smith seems like a nice guy. One of the adults.

He’s a rat with with a gold tooth. Disgusting piece of work

He’ll be unemployed in a few months if you want to give him a job.

Infidel Tiger

9 Mar 13 at 10:41 pm
Ha ha – Bishop reminds us the the Perth electorate has Federal implications.

H B Bear

9 Mar 13 at 10:41 pm
If WA had sensible gun laws, I’d be over in a shot!

Eddystone

9 Mar 13 at 10:41 pm
ALP guy on ABC currently is a BS artist.

Andrew

9 Mar 13 at 10:43 pm
Apparently Mark McGowan ran a great campaign.

Eddystone

9 Mar 13 at 10:43 pm
Impossible.

Because….?
(as I recall you live in Vic, so am dubious about your repeated proclamations of certainty on the topic)

dd

9 Mar 13 at 10:43 pm
You can’t expect the ABC Greenfilth to be talking to the winners. They hate them. They have nothing in common with the 60% of the population who voted for them.

Tom

9 Mar 13 at 10:45 pm
Hooray! The Left have been smashed again! We shouldn’t even allow them to run for election. It wouldn’t make any difference to the outcome.

Fisky

9 Mar 13 at 10:45 pm
Except for the indifference …

He should have a frank and full discussion with the current member for Warnbro.

lotocoti

9 Mar 13 at 10:45 pm
The Green Ant being excitedly objective again…

Rabz

9 Mar 13 at 10:45 pm
The Green Ant being excitedly objective again…

Yeah I like that about him I have to say. He gets excited about the election numbers no matter who’s winning.

dd

9 Mar 13 at 10:47 pm
LOL When Julie Bishop lays the boot in she does it so elegantly.

Gab

9 Mar 13 at 10:47 pm
Julie Bishop sheeting home the blame to Federal Labor.

Eddystone

9 Mar 13 at 10:47 pm
Bishop should leave Gillard alone. seriously.

Entropy

9 Mar 13 at 10:48 pm
Antony Green predicting 32 Lib 19 Lab 8 Nat. Julie Bishop: not just about Barnett’s popularity, but about Labor’s toxic brand.

Tom

9 Mar 13 at 10:48 pm
Because….?
(as I recall you live in Vic, so am dubious about your repeated proclamations of certainty on the topic)

The numbers clearly don’t reflect that reality. Nats won’t even get half the number of Labor seats.

Andrew

9 Mar 13 at 10:48 pm
Stephen Smith talking about Tony Abbott’s eyes.

Fisky

9 Mar 13 at 10:50 pm
“There is no doubt we (federal Labor) have been a drag on Mark”

Bwwwaahahahaha

Splatacrobat

9 Mar 13 at 10:50 pm
Even Red Kerry is asking about “ALP brand”.

Sinclair Davidson

9 Mar 13 at 10:50 pm
The numbers clearly don’t reflect that reality. Nats won’t even get half the number of Labor seats.

Right but that doesn’t make it impossible, just that it won’t happen in this election.

dd

9 Mar 13 at 10:50 pm
Kudos to our friends in the West. A great job humiliating Labor.

dover_beach

9 Mar 13 at 10:51 pm
Stephen smith trying to take a plate of vomit, garnish it up and pass it off as a gourmet dish.

brc

9 Mar 13 at 10:51 pm
The Oz reports Kroger getting a bit of practice in…

“If they’re taking to (Labor leader) Mark McGowan with a baseball bat, they’re waiting for Julia Gillard with rocket launchers,” Mr Kroger said.

Can’t wait to watch him tear the Goose another one in September.

Forester

9 Mar 13 at 10:51 pm
Stephen Smith: We are us.

Gab

9 Mar 13 at 10:52 pm
Stephen Smith in denial.

Andrew

9 Mar 13 at 10:52 pm
DON’T EVER LET THAT HAPPEN AGAIN DURING AN ELECTION!!

Fisky

9 Mar 13 at 11:11 pm
No more of this site broken site shit, please.

Fisky

9 Mar 13 at 11:11 pm
Would you like a refund?

Jacques Chester

9 Mar 13 at 11:12 pm
OMG if this site breaks during the Fed election – whenever that is – heads will roll! :X

Gab

9 Mar 13 at 11:13 pm
YES

Fisky

9 Mar 13 at 11:13 pm
Don’t let this happen during Gillard’s concession speech, Jacques, I’m deadly serious.

Fisky

9 Mar 13 at 11:14 pm
Not your fault, Jacques.

Gab

9 Mar 13 at 11:14 pm
Well it is my fault. I trialled an opcode cache. I’ve never had a good experience with opcode caching but I figured I’d give it another go.

Conclusion: they still suck.

Jacques Chester

9 Mar 13 at 11:15 pm
Something wrong with the labor brand?

FFS. The reason there is something wrong is because they look at it first and foremost as a brand.

Entropy

9 Mar 13 at 11:16 pm
Meh.

This isn’t a landslide.

Newman was a landslide.

Sandgroper communists.

C.L.

9 Mar 13 at 11:16 pm
Okay, your fault then. Don’t let it happen again!!!11!!

My God, it’s like getting a sneeze up only for it to go away!!

Gab

9 Mar 13 at 11:16 pm
I think labor should be happy with members in the teens, qld labor would definitely swap for that result.

4% swing away from the greens. That what makes me the happiest. The greens are a spent force, a smoked political cigarette, a broken down electoral vehicle.

brc

9 Mar 13 at 11:17 pm
“If they’re taking to (Labor leader) Mark McGowan with a baseball bat, they’re waiting for Julia Gillard with rocket launchers,” Mr Kroger said.

Yes, McGowan didn’t run a bad campaign and he is to the right of, for example, the Victorian Liberal Party. He’s still getting hammered. The ALP will not win a single seat in WA in September.

And if I get any of these “Ozblogistan is broken” messages during the September 14 election thread I shall be seriously displeased.

squawkbox

9 Mar 13 at 11:17 pm
Laughed my head off to hear the ABC’s ALP cheerleaders on News 24 earnestly inform that they thought Labor clearly won the election campaign. In your dreams.

Ubique

9 Mar 13 at 11:19 pm
That extra $10 mill to the ABC worked a treat.

Keith

9 Mar 13 at 11:19 pm
Oh God, Sky has that greenish whack job Ian Campbell on. He left the Howrd Govt and became an anti whaling, tree hugging freak.

Infidel Tiger

9 Mar 13 at 11:19 pm
It’s quite a close election when you think about it. This isn’t a thumping at all.

Fisky

9 Mar 13 at 11:20 pm
Yes, McGowan didn’t run a bad campaign and he is to the right of, for example, the Victorian Liberal Party. He’s still getting hammered. The ALP will not win a single seat in WA in September.

The state member for Perth has lost his seat. How does Stephen Smith feel about that??

Fisky

9 Mar 13 at 11:20 pm
“We ran a great campaign”

So did Hitler you communist filth.

Infidel Tiger

9 Mar 13 at 11:22 pm
16% swing in Pilbara. The locals must really hate Labor if this doesn’t even count FIFO’s

Splatacrobat

9 Mar 13 at 11:23 pm
Stephen smithis going to quit. Why would he hang around? All he has been doing for the last 5 years is reading election results that depress him and stuffing up defense, a job he clearly didn’t want.

brc

9 Mar 13 at 11:24 pm
Why is it that Labor’s projected total always blows out after 2-3 hours of counting?? This happens every election. You never hear of Liberals doing a late “clawing back”, only Labor.

Fisky

9 Mar 13 at 11:25 pm
Where’s a good lefty blog? I want to hear the locals squirming.

John Mc

9 Mar 13 at 11:25 pm
There are none left!

Fisky

9 Mar 13 at 11:25 pm
At least Cat has survived it’s problems. The WA election site still has 500 Internal server error. Taxpayer funded and dead. So stop being so grumpy with Jacques.

Keith

9 Mar 13 at 11:26 pm
“OMG if this site breaks during the Fed election – whenever that is – heads will roll! :X”

I’ve only just got back in Gabrielle and I swear I will personally egg Sinclair’s house and his outside dunny if that occurs!

Mick Gold Coast QLD

9 Mar 13 at 11:26 pm
Hey IT can you let us know if there is a correlation between those safe labor seats and ghettos of public servants or union controlled industrial suburbs within the seat?

Splatacrobat

9 Mar 13 at 11:26 pm
Why is it that Labor’s projected total always blows out after 2-3 hours of counting?? This happens every election. You never hear of Liberals doing a late “clawing back”, only Labor.

Takes time for the labor scrutineers to work the pencil.

brc

9 Mar 13 at 11:27 pm
Kroeger was on fire. Excellent straight talking.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.

9 Mar 13 at 11:28 pm
” Stephen Smith seems like a nice guy.

No. He’s a grub.”

Before you exercise that right to vote, Andrew, do please look beyond an image contrived for a single night of television.

Smith is a union hack, he has always been only that. He has no other work experience.

Smith was Foreign Minister in Comrade Dear Leader (in exile)’s ministry. During that period he allowed himself to be pushed around by Rudd to become a mere office assistant in his own portfolio, running about faxing stuff for Rudd, making his coffee and so on. Thus he proved himself to be gutless.

When Stabby stabbed the narcissist Smith allowed himself to be shoved aside to allow Rudd to take his portfolio. Thus he proved himself to be gutless squared.

After a bit Comrade Smith the Gutless played the bully on various Defence chiefs, and bagged a well regarded officer at Duntroon(?) before knowing the facts. He was soon found to be wrong but never publicly cleared the bloke he publicly pilloried. Does that “a nice guy” make Andrew?

There is lots more wrong with Smith.

Sweet jeepers – you’ve been granted the right to vote so please consider way more deeply just who and what these disgraceful people really are.

Mick Gold Coast QLD

9 Mar 13 at 11:29 pm
0 independents. I wonder if Oakeshott is watching.

brc

9 Mar 13 at 11:29 pm
It’s not Sinclair’s fault, Mick.

Gab

9 Mar 13 at 11:29 pm
Another great call by Bob Ellis on his Tabletalk blog. Still railing against Murdoch Newspoll which has proved to be spot on. No wonder “Used” Carr holds him in such high regard.

H B Bear

9 Mar 13 at 11:30 pm
they thought Labor clearly won the election campaign

The punters still noticed the large dog turd floating in that particular punch bowl.

lotocoti

9 Mar 13 at 11:31 pm
they thought Labor clearly won the election campaign

Then I hope Federal labor wins in the same manner.

Keith

9 Mar 13 at 11:35 pm
Mick Gold Coast QLD 9 Mar 13 at 11:29 pm

Well said that man!

JamesK

9 Mar 13 at 11:36 pm
Labor have won 18 seats in WA which must seem very strange to outsiders. What you must remember is tht we corral our filth into areas to keep them under control.

I will also point out that areas with huge levels of Britsh migrants voted Labor. These disgusting Limey swines should be shot on site at customs as part of a rigorous pestilence program.

Infidel Tiger

9 Mar 13 at 11:36 pm
Why are people in the Kimberly voting for the greens? Can anyone shed light on that one? It’s not exactly inner city latte deomgraphic.

brc

9 Mar 13 at 11:38 pm
“It’s not Sinclair’s fault, Mick.”

In my distressed state I granted unto myself a certain amount of hyper-bowl Gabrielle.

During my excommunication from the real world I looked at the ABC’s live blog and found it is a hopeless joke – slow, limited entries and way behind the summary reports that continuously flow in here from multiple sources.

I’ll march on the Catallaxy Head Office, with my subscription receipt Jacques , to demand a guarantee of the good stuff on September 14 I tells ya!

Mick Gold Coast QLD

9 Mar 13 at 11:38 pm
Duuuhhhh, state issues! duuuuhhhh!

Rabz

9 Mar 13 at 11:38 pm
Why are people in the Kimberly voting for the greens? Can anyone shed light on that one? It’s not exactly inner city latte deomgraphic.

Protest vote about the James Price Point gas hub. Some want it, others don’t. There is a huge fight among the Aboriginal community up there over this.

tbh

9 Mar 13 at 11:39 pm
I notice the labor candidate in kwinana was not running any alp branding. But there isn’t any problem with the brand, oh no.

brc

9 Mar 13 at 11:41 pm
I’m planning to upgrade the site to a more powerful server in the final week or two. Probably step up to an even more powerful one on the day.

Jacques Chester

9 Mar 13 at 11:42 pm
By “final week or two” I mean of the federal election.

Jacques Chester

9 Mar 13 at 11:42 pm
Mattias Cormann made the excellent point that Barnett’s was a minority government, just as Gillard’s was, but what a difference in the way they governed. Barnett has governed carefully while Gillard’s reckless incompetence has destroyed Labor federally. Michael Kroger also pointed out that the third of the Greens vote that deserted them didn’t go to the Libs – they voted Labor and that disguises the disaster for Labor in WA. It will be interesting to see the combined Labor-Greens vote compared with 2008.

Tom

9 Mar 13 at 11:42 pm
Amazing – these idiots are saying they won the campaign!!

Fisky

9 Mar 13 at 11:42 pm
“The operation is a success but the patient dies” Bruce Hawker.

Sinclair Davidson

9 Mar 13 at 11:43 pm
So stop being so grumpy with Jacques.

No one ever blames Jacques.

Those that do should be banished.

The guy has one unenviable jerb.

Rabz

9 Mar 13 at 11:43 pm
Tom, it’s a good point. The contrast couldn’t be more stark.

tbh

9 Mar 13 at 11:43 pm
Moderation? Ozblog was so broken. Try early, try often, go directly to mod.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.

9 Mar 13 at 11:45 pm
The fucking ABC are still talking to the losers. Julie Bishop finally being allowed a few moments by Red Kerry. FMD.

Tom

9 Mar 13 at 11:45 pm
By “final week or two” I mean of the federal election.

Of course you do!

Rabz

9 Mar 13 at 11:45 pm
Bishop sinking in the boot. Barnett is competent. Labor is not.

brc

9 Mar 13 at 11:47 pm
I hope and pray all socialist campaigns are as successful.

Infidel Tiger

9 Mar 13 at 11:49 pm
Of course I do.

That’s one of the nice features of the new provider: they can often perform the jump up or down in performance in about a minute. And they charge per-hour, so I only need to pay extra during the rush.

Between LP and the Cat there will be a lot of F5ing going on. I might spend $40 for the day and spring for a real beastie.

Jacques Chester

9 Mar 13 at 11:49 pm
I assume the losing labor leader was a union hack lawyer before entering parliament?

brc

9 Mar 13 at 11:50 pm
Shutup, Julie. We urgently cross back to the fucking losers smiling and shaking hands with each other.

Tom

9 Mar 13 at 11:50 pm
Yes red Kerry, Fed labor was a weight on his back which is why McGowan told gillard to stay away!

Gab

9 Mar 13 at 11:50 pm
It’s hard to win when the pm is toxic and we are too ashamed to use labor branding with our candidates – paraphrasing the loser.

brc

9 Mar 13 at 11:52 pm
A beautiful concession speech. His next will be even better.

Infidel Tiger

9 Mar 13 at 11:53 pm
The fucking ABC are still talking to the losers. Julie Bishop finally being allowed a few moments by Red Kerry. FMD.

Yes, I’ve only been watching ABC24 on-and-off but I haven’t seen Colin Barnett at all yet. Where is he? Taking a celebratory bath in champagne with a bevy of nubile campaign volunteers?

squawkbox

9 Mar 13 at 11:54 pm
And to think that people thought Smith was a possible contender for the leadership. The grey rooster is all but finished.

Keith

9 Mar 13 at 11:54 pm
Someone tell McGowan the campaign’s over.

Gab

9 Mar 13 at 11:55 pm
Between LP and the Cat there will be a lot of F5ing going on. I might spend $40 for the day and spring for a real beastie.

You really should put a paypal button up.

twostix

9 Mar 13 at 11:55 pm
Concession speech good. Hope his kids cheer up soon. They looked sad and confused. Glad to see an old style Labor family man with a nice family man. Disagree with him natch but it is a slap to the Feds.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.

9 Mar 13 at 11:56 pm
Yeah, kid, yawn-worthy stuff, I agree.

Gab

9 Mar 13 at 11:57 pm
You’re right, Gab. The idiot is still campaigning.

Tom

9 Mar 13 at 11:57 pm
Just piss off Sneakers It is over.

H B Bear

9 Mar 13 at 11:57 pm
Ooops. Man – only one family man plus family.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.

9 Mar 13 at 11:58 pm
Has he actually mentioned Barnett – the winner – yet?

Gab

9 Mar 13 at 11:58 pm
Hi wife’s smile is a tad irritating – could she ever look grumpy ?

Louis Hissink

10 Mar 13 at 12:00 am
Incidentally, why is he called “sneakers”? Choice of footwear or something more subtle?

squawkbox

10 Mar 13 at 12:00 am
Alannah McTiernan sums up the ALP well. Gillard has gotta go!

Andrew

10 Mar 13 at 12:00 am
At least the result was settled when the site went down- you can imagine the gnashing of teeth if the outcome was still in the balance.

Cold-Hands

10 Mar 13 at 12:00 am
Concession speech good. Hope his kids cheer up soon. They looked sad and confused. Glad to see an old style Labor family man with a nice family man. Disagree with him natch but it is a slap to the Feds.

“We’re the party for people who only have their labor to offer”

Ahahahahahahaha

JamesK

10 Mar 13 at 12:01 am
Hairy ape says he should shut up now. Too long on da Labor values stuff.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.

10 Mar 13 at 12:01 am
No, that’s amazing – they thought they won the campaign but lost the election and still don’t get it?

Louis Hissink

10 Mar 13 at 12:01 am
Yes, I’ve only been watching ABC24 on-and-off but I haven’t seen Colin Barnett at all yet. Where is he? Taking a celebratory bath in champagne with a bevy of nubile campaign volunteers?

Hopefully he gets on and laughs at Red Kerry.

In fact there should be a gentleman’s agreement between all Liberal leaders: Upon winning an election it is a requirement that you do a Barry O’farrell on Red Kerry.

twostix

10 Mar 13 at 12:01 am
Mark is not even West Australian! At least colin is born and bred. The best part of this election is the fall of the Rainbow (sorry greens) party. In the end of it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Stephen Smith better be visiting his electorate many time until September.

Rex

10 Mar 13 at 12:01 am
You really should put a paypal button up.

Meh. I can afford it. I just wish it didn’t blow up and take my time.

Jacques Chester

10 Mar 13 at 12:01 am
Why do politicians feel the need to ask for permission to thank so-an-so?

Gab

10 Mar 13 at 12:02 am
This speech is Oakshottesque.

Tom

10 Mar 13 at 12:02 am
You’re still my favorite overload, Jacques.

Gab

10 Mar 13 at 12:03 am
WE WANT COLIN! WE WANT COLIN! WE WANT COLIN!

Andrew

10 Mar 13 at 12:03 am
Yes, Tom 3mins in I thought it was going to be another Oakshott moment.

Gab

10 Mar 13 at 12:03 am
“No one ever blames Jacques.

Those that do should be banished.”

Gabrielle forbade me blaming Sinclair, you won’t have me blame Jacques – who do we blame? Joe the Cameraman?

Now I don’t want to risk em-banishment Rabz – I just spent 15 minutes in something similar to that state and discovered there is nothing there.

Can you but imagine Federal Election Grand Final night without access to the Cat?

No-one I know elsewhere has any idea who Red Kez is or whether he had his rug specially fluffed up for the night. There’s fifty fabulous comments to enjoy on that alone. The missus doesn’t understand why I giggle at Antony Green struggling to adjust the carburetor on his flash new prediction software when it hyperventilates; or why Michael Kroger’s eyes glow when he goes all Rottweiler on anyone uneconomic from Labor.

Nah – I needs mah Cat for such events!

Mick Gold Coast QLD

10 Mar 13 at 12:04 am
They looked sad and confused.

Err, Lizzie, they looked ~~buggered~~ exhausted, the poor li’l tackers.

labor – normalising child abuse.

Rabz

10 Mar 13 at 12:04 am
Sneakers’ wiff has an awesome GT stripe.

labor – fake as f*ck…

Rabz

10 Mar 13 at 12:05 am
Is anyone taping this so we can see how close he went to Oakshott’s 17 minutes?

Tom

10 Mar 13 at 12:05 am
Don’t forget to thank Kevin Rudd Mark. His contribution in stemming some of the bloodbath should be acknowledged.

Splatacrobat

10 Mar 13 at 12:06 am
Did he congratulate barnett?

Gab

10 Mar 13 at 12:06 am
Hey – where’s the semenblogger and mUttley?

Rabz

10 Mar 13 at 12:06 am
Can you but imagine Federal Election Grand Final night without access to the Cat?

No.

Tom

10 Mar 13 at 12:07 am
oops, overlord.

Gab

10 Mar 13 at 12:08 am
FFS, why is grey boring helmet man still droning on?

Rabz

10 Mar 13 at 12:08 am
Smith is a typical lefty – talks with his hands.

Louis Hissink

10 Mar 13 at 12:10 am
Because, Rabzie, it’s more important than anything else to talk about and hear from Our Party.

Tom

10 Mar 13 at 12:10 am
Kimberley Greens Chris Maher is best known in Broome as an Elvis impersonator. He drives a post-vintage yank tank with a dirty great V8 under the bonnet and “Elvis” plates. Makes a pleasant change from the usual Toyota Pious’s. But at heart Chris is a Nimby or even a Banana. James Price Point has elevated his status.

Ubique

10 Mar 13 at 12:11 am
Stephen Smith is being very wishful about Labor’s prospects.

Andrew

10 Mar 13 at 12:11 am
Stephen Smith is clutching at straws. Completely ignores the swing to Liberals.

H B Bear

10 Mar 13 at 12:11 am
tephen smith is being very wishful about labor’s prospects.

As he would want to be.

Rabz

10 Mar 13 at 12:12 am
Kroeger – he should have given some hint of why they lost. Absolutely right. Abbott Abbott Abbott

Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.

10 Mar 13 at 12:13 am
Colin who? Never mind, Smith is still rabbiting on.

Grant B

10 Mar 13 at 12:14 am
My, that ALPBC interlocutor is lookin’ very serious.

I wonders shy?

Rabz

10 Mar 13 at 12:14 am
why?

FFS!

Rabz

10 Mar 13 at 12:15 am
Smith keeps comparing Gallop’s first election result and McGowan’s result saying he will do better in four years time. Going on recent treatment of killing leaders, I doubt McGowan will last four years.

Splatacrobat

10 Mar 13 at 12:15 am
The Barnett!

Rabz

10 Mar 13 at 12:16 am
Labour tried fairly hard with the “a vote for Barnett is a vote for Buswell”, I think that was a real dumb point for them.

Buswell has been reasonably competent in whatever portfolio hes been given.. A lot of stray dicking can be forgiven if you are good at your job (Hawke springs to mind)

In effect they invited people to look what was behind mcGowan, Thats like reassuring people Swan will take over if Stabby died.

thefrollickingmole

10 Mar 13 at 12:16 am
Sneakers is no “Good News” Geoff.

H B Bear

10 Mar 13 at 12:16 am
4 MORE YEARS!!!!!

Andrew

10 Mar 13 at 12:17 am
err - message to the infidel tigger:

Get some aesthetically pleasing pollies and do it toot frigging sweet, Squire!

Rabz

10 Mar 13 at 12:18 am
Colin’s acceptance speech – he has style and grace.

Ubique

10 Mar 13 at 12:19 am
Barnett’s not bad looking he just needs a good application of Thin Lizzy to tone down his redness.

Gab

10 Mar 13 at 12:20 am
Fair go, Colin has a beach-side electorate.

Ubique

10 Mar 13 at 12:21 am
That poor woman – she looks like an extra in the Walking Dead…

Rabz

10 Mar 13 at 12:21 am
2 bottles of shiraz makes me a bit blushed too.

Infidel Tiger

10 Mar 13 at 12:22 am
… tone down his redness.

Gab – he’s in danger of turning in to a Newt, so to speak…

Rabz

10 Mar 13 at 12:22 am
Short sharp speech by Colin! Very good man!

Andrew

10 Mar 13 at 12:23 am
He has great cheeks, Rabz, He’d make an excellent Santa Claus.

Gab

10 Mar 13 at 12:23 am
Red Kerry looks like a cancer patient.

Ubique

10 Mar 13 at 12:23 am
Just imagine if TLS was in WA during the campaign…15% swing against Labor?

Andrew

10 Mar 13 at 12:25 am
Red Kerry and Smithy are asking when Barnett will stand down.

Fisky

10 Mar 13 at 12:25 am
lol the blonde bimbo got whacked on the nose with a rolled up newspaper by Bishop.

Gab

10 Mar 13 at 12:27 am
Red Kerry and Smithy are asking when Barnett will stand down.

Now that elections will be voluntary, it’s up to him.

Infidel Tiger

10 Mar 13 at 12:27 am
lol the blonde bimbo got whacked on the nose with a rolled up newspaper by Bishop.

Agreed, to say that there are no other alternatives in the Libs is garbage.

Andrew

10 Mar 13 at 12:28 am
the blonde bimbo got whacked on the nose with a rolled up newspaper by Bishop.

Hurrah!

Rabz

10 Mar 13 at 12:28 am
I wonder what is happening at Greens HQ? Someone has probably shat in the bong water and they are still saying it tastes fine.

Infidel Tiger

10 Mar 13 at 12:30 am
All Bishop had to do was give the blonde bimbo a death stare and she was gone!

Andrew

10 Mar 13 at 12:30 am
Perth has gone to the Libs.

Fisky

10 Mar 13 at 12:30 am
Even at the end of the night Green is still throbbing harder than a sock full of grasshoppers. He must really be looking forward to September.

Splatacrobat

10 Mar 13 at 12:30 am
I wonder what is happening at Greens HQ? Someone has probably shat in the bong water and they are still saying it tastes fine.

No Bongs at Greens HQ. They get stoned on the morning of the ballot because they could not seriously vote for themselves when sane.

Andrew

10 Mar 13 at 12:31 am
FFS – more grey boring helmet man!

Enough, I tells, Ya!

Rabz

10 Mar 13 at 12:32 am
Smith should shut up, truly.

Fisky

10 Mar 13 at 12:34 am
A swing away from the Greens of 4.4% replicated federally would sink most if not all Senate candidates.

Splatacrobat

10 Mar 13 at 12:34 am
The blonde bimbo was an embarrassment all night. Made the woeful mistake of treating the set as though it was the ABC staff room.

Ubique

10 Mar 13 at 12:35 am
FFS, the Green Ant is wearing one extremely ugly tie…

Rabz

10 Mar 13 at 12:36 am
haha the swing against Greens in the WA upper house would see them wiped out as well!!!

Splatacrobat

10 Mar 13 at 12:36 am
She has the irritating habit of taking an answer and paraphrasing it as a question.

Gab

10 Mar 13 at 12:37 am
That cosmetic green stuff does not work, Gab. I used some for Da Hairy Ape after a big weekend on da beers with a VIP meeting the next morning. Just made him look like Shrek or the Jolly Green Giant. A wash off needed.

Don’t do it again , I warned.

A salutary lesson for him. Real men don’t do cosmetics.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.

10 Mar 13 at 12:38 am
The blonde bimbo was an embarrassment all night. Made the woeful mistake of treating the set as though it was the ABC staff room.

And she’s still at it, FFS.

If she doesn’t access Rabz Inc fashion consultants toot sweet, she’ll never work in the Eastern States evah, I tells ya!

Rabz

10 Mar 13 at 12:38 am
If the lower house numbers are extrapolated to the upper house here, the Greens disappear in the parliament.

Louis Hissink

10 Mar 13 at 12:39 am
Old house: Lib 24, Lab 28, Nat 4, Ind 3
New house (Antony Green’s projection): Lib 33, Lab 19, Nat 7.
Green is also projecting the Greenfilth will lose all four upper house seats.
Notice all the independents have disappeared – IMO a premonition of the federal election, which means most of those currently nominating “other” parties as a protest will in fact vote for the Coalition.

Tom

10 Mar 13 at 12:39 am
It’s not green,Lizzie, it’s skin tone powder that gives excellent coverage. I prefer Sheercover brand.

Gab

10 Mar 13 at 12:40 am
The blond bimbo and red Kerry as well as Anthony continue to use the “we” as if they and the ALP were one and the same family.

Pugh!

Louis Hissink

10 Mar 13 at 12:42 am
McTurd will be spinning that TLS can win the next election by pointing at the WA result that a minority government can win a majority.

Just he won’t mention it was an LNP government who did it.

Splatacrobat

10 Mar 13 at 12:45 am
Mine was Natio skin cream for redness and it was a greenish paste. Useless in the event.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.

10 Mar 13 at 12:46 am
Great to see Woollard destroyed – scored 10 per cent of the vote. She can enjoy a future as a compost heap along with neighbouring loser, serial bonker and woman scorned Adele Carles.

Ubique

10 Mar 13 at 12:47 am
I have always been disappointed with Natio products in the past. I never go near the stuff now. The green stuff never works, regardless of brand, imo.

Gab

10 Mar 13 at 12:48 am
Another layba thumping…

Isn’t life Grand!

Rabz

10 Mar 13 at 12:49 am
Let’s see if Red Kerry ducks the federal implications in view of the fact that:

Sky News exit polling showed that 51 per cent of voters considered the performance of the federal Labor government to be an important factor in the way they voted.

Tom

10 Mar 13 at 12:50 am
Woodard destroyed was my Oakeshott moment for this election. Foul woman that she is.

Never stops lecturing others and yet when her own kin run amok she claimed it was nothing to do with her. Good riddance Dr’s Wife.

Infidel Tiger

10 Mar 13 at 12:50 am
Worth a 21 gun salute.

Ubique

10 Mar 13 at 12:51 am
Meh.

This isn’t a landslide.

Newman was a landslide.

Sandgroper communists.

Not a fair comparison CL. WA has the distinction of being the first movers away from labor government. Imagine if this election were being held after 12 years of Gallup/Carpenter. Now that would have been a rout worse than what happened after 12 years of Beattie/Bligh.

Keith

10 Mar 13 at 12:51 am
Kevin’s probably all barred up now looking at these results. Therese might even get lucky tonight.

Splatacrobat

10 Mar 13 at 12:56 am
Woollard’s belting a great outcome. Shame you can’t use actual baseball bats.

H B Bear

10 Mar 13 at 12:56 am
Please don’t, Splat. Where’s the brain bleach?

Tom

10 Mar 13 at 12:58 am
Anyone heard Swans reaction ?

jumpnmcar

10 Mar 13 at 12:58 am
Don’t worry, Woollard will go to bed tonight feeling that the electorate did use baseball bats.

Ubique

10 Mar 13 at 1:00 am
The gutless wonder in his summary deliberately avoided the federal implications issue — which was the big takeout for the rest of the country.

Tom

10 Mar 13 at 1:01 am
Emersons twitter thing is funny.

Craig Emerson MP ‏@CraigEmersonMP
“@RPW260567: Suck Shit, Emerson! What happened in WA, Vic, NSW is just a taste of what will occur on Sept 14. Get ready for a reaming!”

jumpnmcar

10 Mar 13 at 1:02 am
Ol’ Leathery will be waiting for the Mousse Salesman to phone through McSporran’s talking points for tomorrows spin on another catastrophic ALP loss.

H B Bear

10 Mar 13 at 1:04 am
I notice Insiders is not listing its zombie lineup for today, along with the Token Conservative:

Barrie Cassidy is joined by the panel to discuss a big week in politics, including the WA State Election, the change of Victorian Premier plus the Federal pollies’ battle for the hearts and minds of Western Sydney.

Tom

10 Mar 13 at 1:11 am
Anyone heard Swans reaction?

Swan won’t have a reaction. His grasp of geography is even worse than his understanding of economics. Swan has never heard of Western Australia.

Ubique

10 Mar 13 at 1:12 am
Swan blames the Tea Party.

Infidel Tiger

10 Mar 13 at 1:15 am
Surely Swan knows where the mining revenue comes from.
Or maybe not.

Keith

10 Mar 13 at 1:20 am
It’s not the normal kind of election loss.

jumpnmcar

10 Mar 13 at 1:22 am
Good to see the union thugs owned ALP didn’t get a run but its amazing just how many idiots still actually vote for them. WA has enough mothballed railway tunnels & bridges to nowhere to last them for very many years! With the support of almost every brainless media outlet & those gullible dope heads infesting the education department not to mention practically 100% of the labor dependent public service & welfare recipients, they still couldn’t buy their way in past the stink of that self entitled bunch of mongrels ripping through our nation’s finances at a furious rate!

maurie

10 Mar 13 at 1:24 am
So far Adele Carles has 5% of the votes in her electorate – Fremantle.

Good.

JLC

10 Mar 13 at 1:26 am
Why are people in the Kimberly voting for the greens? Can anyone shed light on that one? It’s not exactly inner city latte deomgraphic.

from brc.

Two reasons; James Price Point and the fact the Broome area is infested with wealthy NIMBYs from the Eastern States.

Too close to call at 2300 WST, but the remote area communities
and mining camps will cancel a lot of these dickheads out.

Pedro the Ignorant

10 Mar 13 at 1:32 am
Gloat. (gloat…gloat…..gloat…..etc)

Now if the Shooters and Fishers manage to score a seat in the Legislative Council after turfing out the Greenfilth, I will be a happy little enchilada.

Pedro the Ignorant

10 Mar 13 at 1:43 am
Carles and Woollard getting turfed out was the best result for me tonight. They way they have both behaved in recent times has been deplorable. Screw them both frankly.

tbh

10 Mar 13 at 1:45 am
OK, we have put the ALP slime where they belong, now roll on September so we can finish this job properly. Still amazed that so many sane people can endorse these Union inspired cretins. Amazing.

Makka

10 Mar 13 at 1:48 am
This resounding win put even more pressure on Gillard to go.

tkh

10 Mar 13 at 1:49 am
Backlash against Gillard begins – charge led by a woman!

Male federal MP says she’s just being an hysterical woman.

Oh, the humanity.

Former Labor Minister Alannah MacTiernan says she thinks Julia Gillard should go.

“At a personal level, I think Julia Gillard is a very decent person but you can’t be a leader if people don’t want you as a leader, and that unfortunately has to be a reality that our Prime Minister needs to take on board,” she said.

“I know it may be very unfair and very horrible but that is the reality out there; people do not buy Julia Gillard as a leader.”

Ms MacTiernan says Labor should change its leadership before the federal election.

“You cannot go out doorknocking in Armadale and go out to the shopping centres in Forrestfield and Perth and get Labor people telling you that they’ll vote for Labor this time at the state election but there’s no way they’ll vote for Labor federally,” she said.

“I mean you can’t ignore that.”

Federal Labor MP Gary Gray has rejected Ms MacTiernan’s call for Julia Gillard to go.

“What we hear from Alannah is the kind of emotion that characterises a very bad result,” he said.

“It doesn’t characterise deep and thoughtful analysis.”

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-09/liberals-on-course-to-win/4563336

C.L.

10 Mar 13 at 1:50 am
Also great to see the Nats leader Grylls taking over the Pilbara.

Big surprise to many who thought this would be a shoe in for the ALP, but forgot that FIFO workers don’t get to vote in the areas they work but don’t live, and also forgot that both FIFO and locals have huge self interest in seeing their minesites, oil rigs and support industries grow exponentially.

Pilbara ( and other regional WA) locals love the Royalties for Regions and the wealth and infrastructure that have been created since Barnett arrived and Grylls held the “Regions” knife at his throat.

Pedro the Ignorant

10 Mar 13 at 1:51 am
Retort?

ABC Online video caption:

Julie Bishop says Labor’s brand is toxic in WA to which Stephen Smith retorts you don’t have to be rocket scientist to work out that the Federal Government has been a drag on Mark McGowan’s campaign.

C.L.

10 Mar 13 at 1:55 am
This will settle down Victoria and NT.

mareeS

10 Mar 13 at 2:30 am
How the NIMBY’s voted for the Greenfilth in the Kimberley by booth (rough figures at 2330 WST);

Broome Primary School – 580
Broome High School- 298
Cable Beach Resort – 382
Roebuck Bay (Broome) -306

How the locals voted for Greenfilth in the rest of the region;

Argyle Mine – 8
Derby High School – 95
Halls Creek School – 56
Kununurra – 118
Wyndham – 50

It will be instructive to note the Green votes when all the figures come in from the remote area camps, minesites and Aboriginal communities in the Kimberley.

James Price Point gas hub will produce multi millions of dollars for the economy, but a pile retired bludgers from the Eastern States would rather see the region remain in poverty as long as hey have their nice sandy beach and no industry on the skyline visible from their multi million dollar beach house.

Pedro the Ignorant

10 Mar 13 at 2:34 am
“0 independents.”

The contempt for independents created by Oakeshott and Windsor continues, even on the other side of the country.

They have ruined the chances of independents permanently.

2dogs

10 Mar 13 at 6:36 am
Hi all
Loved the election coverage here – I watched on ABC and didn’t join in the comments because the tv is quite a ways from my computer – going to have to fix that by September
Great result – funny to hear O’Brien make that ABC error again and loved Bishop’s comment ‘the Labor brand is toxic’ comment
here’s an article not to be missed

In the meantime, the Labor Party will take no comfort from the other question asked in the Galaxy poll, and that is whether or not voters believe Tony Abbott is ready to govern should he win an election. The Gillard camp has made much of suggestions that, despite having plenty of time to ready himself and embed policy change, Mr Abbott and his senior team are not ready to rule.

They argue that in a similar vein to the O’Farrell government in NSW, the Coalition cannot stop seeing itself as an opposition and implement a genuine agenda for change.

Our poll shows the voters don’t buy it.

val majkus

10 Mar 13 at 6:43 am
and if you’re wondering what happened to Paul Howes

This group of people works on the theory that if you scream hysterically for long enough, eventually people will start believing something bad is happening to them.

It’s a strategy which has had some success, but simply isn’t sustainable over the long term.

Tony Abbott’s hysteria over the carbon price is a classic example.

Almost a year after its introduction, the predicted chaos and calamity simply hasn’t occurred, and people now can see it was all just a big con.

The powerbrokers of the New Right have taken the Liberal Party in a bizarre direction.

The Liberals are no longer the conservative party of Robert Menzies or even the party of John Howard.

Instead the Liberal Party of today looks more like the Flat Earth Society. It’s a party that rejects science, rejects evidence-based policy, and embraces the politics of fear and loathing.

It rejects values of tolerance, diversity and inclusiveness, and seeks to stir up division and conflict.

He’s describing the Libs but I think he’s looking at Labor

val majkus

10 Mar 13 at 6:51 am
I was about to comment last night when the site went down. I was quite amused when a Labor minister who had held her seat was being interviewed and she commented that the reasons she’d held on was because “Voters don’t like broken promises” in relation to the unbuilt railway line.

If that’s the case, Federal Labor shouldn’t retain one seat in September or whenever.

eam

10 Mar 13 at 7:03 am
This result is a tragedy for WA and for the whole of Australia. It feels like Germany 1933.

hammygar

10 Mar 13 at 7:21 am
Barnett’s surprise win in the previous election heralded the start of the great nationwide backlash against the ALP. Let’s hope he is now heralding the peak of the electoral wave in the last election. Unfortunately the Vic Libs are shooting the whole party in the foot.

John Comnenus

10 Mar 13 at 7:24 am
Hammy,

Yeah it does feel like Germany in the 1930′s when the authoritarian party got about 33% of the vote.

Hopefully unlike Germany we will keep the party of big government authoritarianism that demonizes hard workers that look different in order to appeal to it’s working class base out of power.

John Comnenus

10 Mar 13 at 7:28 am
val
Howes is no longer relevant. Forget him.
Now only a useful accompaniment to the general wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Keith

10 Mar 13 at 7:29 am
You’ve just given the game away, Hamster. Welome to the comedy industry. Now we can muse endlessly about which journolist/journalist “Gareth Hamilton” is.

Tom

10 Mar 13 at 7:31 am
Talking of wailing Hammy shows up to demonstrate.

Keith

10 Mar 13 at 7:38 am
Quote of the day from Michael Kroger:

“If they’re taking to (Labor leader) Mark McGowan with a baseball bat, they’re waiting for Julia Gillard with rocket launchers.”

Tom

10 Mar 13 at 7:44 am
Hammy Hyper-Bowl

Leigh Lowe

10 Mar 13 at 7:52 am
the interesting thing about the most recent polling is that it won’t give much reassurance to Rudd

Given the choice between prime minister Julia Gillard, a new leader or former prime minister Kevin Rudd, 32 per cent believed Ms Gillard should remain PM, while 33 per cent wanted a fresh start.

Twenty six per cent favoured a Rudd return

val majkus

10 Mar 13 at 7:53 am
This result is a tragedy for WA and for the whole of Australia. It feels like Germany 1933.

Yeah the Commies got well and truly buttf-cked then too Hamster.

JamesK

10 Mar 13 at 7:55 am
It feels like 1933, Hammy, but still WA.

2dogs

10 Mar 13 at 7:55 am
Labor federal support at 32%: poll
THE day after Labor’s woes continued with a landslide loss in the West Australian election, a new poll shows the party’s primary vote federally has dropped to 32 per cent.

The Galaxy Poll conducted for The Sunday Telegraph newspaper showed the government’s support had dropped three points in the past month.

Asked who they’d vote for if a federal election were held today, 32 per cent of respondents opted for the Labor party, while 48 per cent chose the coalition.

Eleven per cent said they’d vote for the Greens and nine per cent chose another party or an independent.

On a two-party preferred basis, the coalition earned 55 per cent of the vote to the government’s 45 per cent.

Given the choice between prime minister Julia Gillard, a new leader or former prime minister Kevin Rudd, 32 per cent believed Ms Gillard should remain PM, while 33 per cent wanted a fresh start.

Twenty six per cent favoured a Rudd return

JamesK

10 Mar 13 at 7:57 am
snap val

JamesK

10 Mar 13 at 7:58 am
Technically I think that is a breach of Godwin’s law, Hammy, which means you lose.
Not uncommon for a Godwin breach late in the day, but it would appear your’s is a first ball duck.

Leigh Lowe

10 Mar 13 at 8:01 am
So ….. how is that vicious personal attack on Buswell working for you?
They dropped about 2-3% Two Party Preffered since they started that stunt.
Any lessons for Bollard do you think?

Leigh Lowe

10 Mar 13 at 8:12 am
http://www.abc.net.au/elections/wa/2013/guide/wagi.htm

proud of my redneck kin tonight

4% for the greens, 80% for libs/nats

Yeehaw

Yobbo

10 Mar 13 at 8:13 am
Other news is that Nats have become massively more popular due to Brendon Grylls

Yobbo

10 Mar 13 at 8:21 am
Yes good work Brendan. And good work Barnaby.

Pickles

10 Mar 13 at 8:26 am
Greens’ result shows Western Australians know an extreme political party when they see one. Green vote cut in half.

micka

10 Mar 13 at 8:33 am
the Rudd/Gillard era IMO is memorable for these moments:
Rudd and Roxon striding the hospital corridors dressed in surgical gear
All the historical achievements of the Rudd Govt (in his eyes) for example Rudd crowing about ‘historical hospital reform’ which has as we’ve since seen achieved absolutely nothing
Labor kissing each other when the carbon tax passed the Lower House
Julia Gillard saying ‘I’m the Prime Minister’ – I can’t find a link for this but I don’t recall any previous PM having to remind the electorate of their status – with Hawke, Keating, Howard, you ‘just knew’
Just about everything Gillard has done or tried to do including those times she failed to remain on her feet
there are many more moments memorable in the worst way

val majkus

10 Mar 13 at 8:36 am
Also of note is that the Shooters + Fishers party have taken a LC seat from the nats, mostly thanks to Glenn Drury. Great victory for libertarians, hopefully he can repeat his magic in the federal election and get an LDP person in the senate.

Yobbo

10 Mar 13 at 8:41 am
I used to think Smith was one of the adults in the ALP, but the more one hears about the “behind the scenes” realities, the worse it seems.
What I took to be genuine concern was accomplished frontman-speak to the media. He’s much smoother in presentation than, say, Albanese or Swan or Emerson.
They all come across as prepared to say anything, and vying with each other for the Comical Ali Memorial Award – for Best Performance In A Bizarro Production.

blogstrop

10 Mar 13 at 8:43 am
The concerted attacks on Buswell by the ABC have been patently partisan. As if there are no stories one could tell about any number of the legover men and women in their favourite party.

blogstrop

10 Mar 13 at 8:46 am
If you google ‘I’m the Prime Minister’ Gillard you get a number of hits
starting with her first day in office http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2010/s2936464.htm

val majkus

10 Mar 13 at 8:55 am
On the MSC Orchestra in the South Atlantic. There are a lot of Ozzies on board, and not a single Labor supporter to be found, none who would admit it anyway.

The WA election result added real fun to the party, insofar as near geriatrics party these days. Someone suggested we toast with French champagne, (probably a closet commie), a dumb suggestion immediately howled down. The maitre d managed to find several bottles of Margaret River white sav, and we made a disgrace of ourselves.

Jannie

10 Mar 13 at 8:59 am
Yes Blogstrop, Smith is a facade.
The coiffed mane, the tan and the measured tone (in public) can fool people for a while.
However, we should not forget this prick hung the Chief of ADFA out to dry on the strength of a beat-up by Channel 10 concocted by his mate Bongiorno.
All this whilst he was joining in the chorus of “due process for Shagger and Slippery”

Leigh Lowe

10 Mar 13 at 9:02 am
Hammy..did you create that comment whilst ruminating on the porcelain hyper-bowl?

Steve of Glasshouse

10 Mar 13 at 9:11 am
The concerted attacks on Buswell by the ABC have been patently partisan.

Absolutely disgraceful.
Heard an “interview” on Friday with soon-to-be ex leader McGowan and an ABC mouthpiece.
McGowan made some snide remarks about Buswell, and the ABC flunky immediately went into a “chair sniffing” rant. McGowan pretended it was “all about policy and process”.
And the two of them went on in this vain for five minutes, with the ABC muppet making vague references to “other issues” around Buswell.
Time to close down the ABC cheer-squad.

Leigh Lowe

10 Mar 13 at 9:11 am
Yes Blogstrop, Smith is a facade.

Smith is the worst defence minister in Australia’s history. By enlisting the Sex Discrimination Commissioner to make defence policy, he has done more to destroy the combat capability of the ADF than any enemy.

jupes

10 Mar 13 at 9:11 am
This result is a tragedy for WA and for the whole of Australia. It feels like Germany 1933.

Only for lefty losers and poseurs like you Hambone, the rest of us are quite satisfied with the WA result.

Popular Front

10 Mar 13 at 9:14 am
“It’s not the normal kind of election loss.”

Not really for WA in modern times – see 1996, 2001 and 2005.

Jarrah

10 Mar 13 at 9:14 am
Hahahahaha!!! Our “not normal” expert weighs in.

Tom

10 Mar 13 at 9:17 am
“Our “not normal” expert weighs in.”

Called in by the magic words!

Jarrah

10 Mar 13 at 9:33 am
“What we hear from Alannah is the kind of emotion that characterises a very bad result,” he said. That sounds like what a misogynist would say.

What ever it takes

10 Mar 13 at 9:40 am
Leigh, certainly the ABC wasn’t holding back like they would if Buswell was an ALP politician, but I would have serious trouble ticking the square for someone who clearly has absolutely appalling judgement when it comes to personal life. It isn’t as though he is an immature uni student. How could you be sure that kind of judgement wouldn’t flow on to professional choices?

Entropy

10 Mar 13 at 9:46 am
Thre results demonstrate just how flakey the Green’s vote is.

4% doesn’t sound like much, but that’s off a 12% base.

They lost 30% of their previous vote.

Happy days.

duncanm

10 Mar 13 at 10:03 am
Entropy – agreed, don’t think the Libs can ever run with Buswell as leader. The Libs will have to raise the profile of the next leader during this term. Not clear to me who this might be.

H B Bear

10 Mar 13 at 10:05 am
Jeff, the nazis were socialists. Of the left. That’s why you’ll will find multiple references to hammys quote linking them. Nazi stands for national socialist, in case your reading never went that deep. The fact that the nazis hated the communists is just another story within the deep hatred the left harbours for turf wars on it’s own side.

brc

10 Mar 13 at 10:18 am
Why do the Libs have to think about the next leader. Billy stayed in til he was 90, what is to stop Barnett doing another two terms or more?

Don’t get sucked into the ALPBC dialogue of leadership change in the conservative ranks.

Helen Armstrong

10 Mar 13 at 10:18 am
What was that blonde bimbo called?

I was disappointed to see Barnett talk about “compassion” and “ethics” in his victory speech. Those are leftie code words for bigger government.

James

10 Mar 13 at 10:19 am
Entropy, while I agree with you that having sex with a Green is a depraved act, I think you are too harsh on Buswell.

Infidel Tiger

10 Mar 13 at 10:20 am
Bloody ‘ell. Forgot all about the WA Election. Instead got pissed around a campfire with a camp oven and a lump of animal carcass that died happy.
Someone remind me next time, OK?

Winston Smith

10 Mar 13 at 10:26 am
I take issue with all this “waiting with baseball bats” garbage. A lazy Americanism that we can do without.

Waiting with a Nulla Nulla, a Boondi, a yam stick, a cricket stump, half a star picket, three feet of twitched up bull wire, an ironbark stick or the first thing they can lay a hand on are more appropriate and quintisentially antipodean.

Pickles

10 Mar 13 at 10:32 am
Pickes, how a about waiting with mackerel dangers?

A mackerel dinger, of course, being a short round piece of timber with the center bored out and filled with lead. To calm down a mackerel once it’s landed on the deck.

brc

10 Mar 13 at 10:38 am
ALPBC blonde bimbo – Alisha O’Flaherty

Some of her best work can be seen here.

H B Bear

10 Mar 13 at 10:39 am
Ack, that was donger, not dinger or danger. Stupid auto correct.

brc

10 Mar 13 at 10:39 am
Yes Pickles,

We’re very lucky it only requires a sharp pencil.

Forester

10 Mar 13 at 10:40 am
Soon to be unemployed Labor corpse Gary Gray provides a lemming’s eye view on Alannah MacTiernan’s self-evident observation that Gillard is as popular as herpes,

“What we hear from Alannah is the kind of emotion that characterises a very bad result, it doesn’t characterise deep and thoughtful analysis”.

Big Bill Ludwig and the Pieman have an even bigger problem this morning. As if that was even possible.

H B Bear

10 Mar 13 at 10:46 am
Fuck off, Jeff. Just go away.

Tom

10 Mar 13 at 10:58 am
Yes Forester “waiting for their turn in the cardboard box with a Keno pencil” or anything with Sidchrome stamped on it.

Of course make sure whatever it is has a sturdy wrist strap. Nothing like the foe getting hold of your leveller to change the dynamic of the duel.

Pickles

10 Mar 13 at 10:59 am
I surprised the greens still got that many votes. Thankfully no seats won yet.

Mundi

10 Mar 13 at 10:59 am
This result is a tragedy for WA and for the whole of Australia. It feels like Germany 1933.

”

1933 ?

1. The Daily Express Newspaper in England published that the world’s Jews declared war on Germany on March 24 1933.

2. Germany had an unemployment rate of 26.3% (source

Really Hammy, Germany was almost down and out in 1933, precisely what the Russian Marxists were planning in their campaign of bestowing socialism on the Europeans, as a prelude for the rest of the world.

Bit off declaring war on country that was bankrupt and on its knees, and hardly a comparison to Australia in 2013 either.

I wonder, are you properly credentialed as an idiot, or are you acting with false certificates?

Louis Hissink

10 Mar 13 at 11:00 am
Pickles,
glad you didn’t reference a cricket bat, they are far too expensive these days for a decent one. Albeit, I did pick up a cheap indian made Spartan bat for $25 for my 10 yo lad the other week, not too bad, better than the cheapie bats from my era

Tator

10 Mar 13 at 11:00 am
“What we hear from Alannah is the kind of emotion that characterises a very bad result, it doesn’t characterise deep and thoughtful analysis”.

I would have thought at this stage “We are fucked federally” is as deep and thoughtful the analysis needs to be in the Caucus to dump TLS.

Splatacrobat

10 Mar 13 at 11:01 am
plus you forgot the lump of 4 by 2 as well, another traditional Aussie club

Tator

10 Mar 13 at 11:02 am
A cricket bat is a sacred object Tator. Not to be soiled by the skin or hair of these clowns.

Pickles

10 Mar 13 at 11:05 am
Mundi I don’t care how many votes the greens get, as long as it is never enough to actually win any seats. It helps if they are falling just short, because it occupies them with campaigning and not interfering with other people. Plus it wastes their money, which is a good thing.

brc

10 Mar 13 at 11:07 am
Tator, I just peeled the wrapping off the same thing. I was trying to work out if it needed piling but it appears to already have been faced with a protective material.

brc

10 Mar 13 at 11:09 am
I have a Zulu knobkerrie as my donger of choice.

Louis Hissink

10 Mar 13 at 11:09 am
After being carefully buried overnight, yesterday’s WA election finally becomes the top story at ShakeMyHead.com at 10.39am this morning:

Labor’s political woes federally impacted efforts by West Australian Labor leader Mark McGowan to defeat Premier Colin Barnett in Saturday’s poll, according to two senior federal ministers.

Tom

10 Mar 13 at 11:13 am
I like the idea of a star picket.

Our native brothers have embraced it for their justice system and I feel we could too.

Infidel Tiger

10 Mar 13 at 11:22 am
The Waratah brand comes highly recommended, I hear.

Louis Hissink

10 Mar 13 at 11:25 am
We’re seriously worried about the crime rate in WA. All of those now out-of-work Labor pollies and their staffers will return to a life of crime and organising industrial mayhem in the few unions still to have a membership.

Ubique

10 Mar 13 at 11:31 am
Waratah is the original and best. Beware of cheap immitations.

Pickles

10 Mar 13 at 11:32 am
Ent

I agree with IT. How could he, how could he bonk a Green. By all means lets have gay marriage, but Green bonking is where I draw the line in terms legalities.

JC

10 Mar 13 at 11:36 am
“Jeff”

What Tom said. Go away.

JC

10 Mar 13 at 11:37 am
Entropy, Bear,

LNP now has a very comfortable majority. Buswell is now sackable, unlike during minority government. He’ll be on his best behaviour if he wants to stay in the party.

Keith

10 Mar 13 at 11:38 am
Of course we should be wary of the most devastating weapon of all.

The Black Pudding

Pickles

10 Mar 13 at 11:39 am
Tom
10 Mar 13 at 11:13 am

After being carefully buried overnight, yesterday’s WA election finally becomes the top story at ShakeMyHead.com at 10.39am this morning:

I agree.

I gave up on “Pravda on the Yarra” (The Age), years ago, but had been reading selectively some of the Fauxfax SMH Columnists, but with the move to their new layout, SMH has become unreadable and , if at all possible, more a Labor Party Media arm -aiming to lose to ALPBC?

OldOzzie

10 Mar 13 at 11:45 am
Ever since Granny stopped publishing “column 8″ the SMH has been in a death spiral.

Louis Hissink

10 Mar 13 at 11:56 am
Column 8 is still there, Louis. It hasn’t stopped the death spiral, though.

johanna

10 Mar 13 at 12:08 pm
Jeff

There are countless leftist nutballs who are also industrialists. Mr. Integrity, Warren Buffet comes to mind. No one is shocked by those sorts of allegiances, here.

Fuck off please.

Moderator can you please ban this dunce.

JC

10 Mar 13 at 12:12 pm
Hitlers chief enablers were the captains of industry, the name Krupp comes to mind

It’s called Fascism Jeff; private ownership of the means of production but the government sets production levels and prices.

It’s how the Trade Union Party wants to run our power generation, media and internet.

Forester

10 Mar 13 at 12:15 pm
Kieth @ 11.38am Buswell is the most talented person in the Liberal government. The Emperor was never going to sack him, just give him a spell on the Naughty Spot.

H B Bear

10 Mar 13 at 12:18 pm
It is called “rishthatra” JC. Sex outside one’s species. Coined by Larry Niven in his science fiction Ringworld novels

Eyrie

10 Mar 13 at 12:18 pm
Nazis, Socialists, Fascists, Communists. That’s the trouble with living on a sphere. Everything on your Left ultimately gets away ends up on your Right and vice versa.

Paul

10 Mar 13 at 12:18 pm
Adele Carles primary vote in Fremantle sinks to 5.7% in the greatest case of sexually acquired un-electability since Biggles slipped Cheryl Kernot the pork sword of death nearly 20 years ago.

H B Bear

10 Mar 13 at 12:23 pm
Jeff is making us think outside our bubble

No, he’s not. Jeff is a two-bob troll who has only one reason for being here: to pick fights.

Tom

10 Mar 13 at 12:38 pm
Adele Carles lost because the Fremantlites, it’s a bloody wharfie town for heavens sake, tired of the Green crap and went back to their roots – the unions and the ALP.

Louis Hissink

10 Mar 13 at 12:54 pm
Hang around Jeff, the party’s just getting started!

wreckage

10 Mar 13 at 1:02 pm
Big Bill Ludwig and the Pieman have an even bigger problem this morning. As if that was even possible.

Bear, please remind me who the pieman is.

Will

10 Mar 13 at 1:17 pm
In the mind of a lefty, conservative = nazi.

To a conservative like me, nazi = extreme socialism.

derFRED

10 Mar 13 at 1:21 pm
Fuck off Jeff. You don’t excite any senses nor initiate any good discussions. We’ve see it all before.

One word of caution. This site is a leftwing killing field. Stay on and I can assure you that you will end up going close to postal and eventually be carried away by stretcher to the closest mental asylum.

Go through previous threads and judge for yourself.

JC

10 Mar 13 at 1:25 pm
H

itlers chief enablers were the captains of industry,

So he was the Captains (of Industry) pick?

Any evidence for this moronic drivel?

Will

10 Mar 13 at 1:35 pm
Pieman = Shorten, the multi-cultural pie warmer’s friend.

H B Bear

10 Mar 13 at 1:40 pm
Red Kerry confuses the ABC and ALP again.

Is there a difference?

stackja

10 Mar 13 at 1:58 pm
So Jeff, tell us why hitler named his party national socialists? Was he just beng ironic?

Your argument is that any government that allies itself with privately owned industry must be ‘right wing’ because all captains of industry ae really just robberbarons?

By your reckoning the Australian greens are a right wing party because their major donors are all ‘captains of industry’

What your Marxist reading fails to enlighten you is that national socialism is just another form of socialism whereby industry ownership is left is nominally left in private hands, but the economy is still planned and centrally controlled by the government.

Of course, post 1945, the left has always tried to brand hitler and Mussolini as some sort of outgrowth of conservative policies. Bt the truth is that during the 1930s, all the other socialists thought hitler was a swell guy doing good work applying his special form of socialism. He and Stalin were allies for a while, until they turned on each other as factions of the left are always wont to do.

Sorry bud, but the left owns the nazis, Stalin, Mao, pol pot, Castro, Chavez and all the Kim’s from NK.. Murderous thugs the lot. And not one of them interested in personal economic and political freedom.

brc

10 Mar 13 at 2:14 pm
Wow! What a read! Thanks everybody.
Did anyone notice Anthony Green’s little slip-up ( several times actually) when he referred to each Labor win/loss as “we have lost this” or “we have a win here” etc. It was painfully obvious that this commentator is far, far from unbiased. ( “wot”, I hear you exclaim” on our ABC?”
RLS/ Dear Leader has her skeletons; Wilson, Emerson,O’Connell, AWU rorts etc, but so has that nice Mr Smith. Look way back at the Lawrence administration and the suicide of Penny Easton. No, Smithy it’ll never be forgotten; you can run, but you can’t hide.

Dexter Rous

10 Mar 13 at 2:35 pm
There’s actually very little difference between the Liberals and Labor in WA. This result was a ringing endorsement of Gillard and Swan.

I don’t see why libertarians would be cheering a WA Liberal landslide.

By the way there is no LNP coalition in WA. The Liberals had to buy National Party support to form the previous government.

sdfc

10 Mar 13 at 3:17 pm
Your conclusion? Hitler was a socialist!

He was a national socialist, rather than the more common or garden variety of international socialist.

Will

10 Mar 13 at 3:46 pm
There’s actually very little difference between the Liberals and Labor in WA. This result was a ringing endorsement of Gillard and Swan.

Mark McGowan told Gillard she was not welcome in WA and also opposed the Carbon Tax.

Fisky

10 Mar 13 at 4:02 pm
Media being quiet about WA. Hoping voters do not get any such ideas about federal election, it seems.

stackja

10 Mar 13 at 4:04 pm
Jeff, if you insist that hitler was not a socialist then answer why he named his party national socialists. The fact that he rounded up communists and trade unionists explains he was a particularly intolerant socialist, which is hardly news, given that socialism, intolerance and racism have been hand in glove all along. It doesn’t make him a conservative or libertarian. I’ve already reminded you that nobody hates like the left.

It may help if you expand your reading beyond AWU pamphlets, these are particularly narrow in viewpoint.

brc

10 Mar 13 at 5:04 pm
Mark McGowan told Gillard she was not welcome in WA and also opposed the Carbon Tax.

But he was lying and people saw through that.

JC

10 Mar 13 at 5:07 pm
Been there done that, let’s face it, your only comeback is to suck up to the moderator and beg to have me airbrushed from the blog.

Airbrushed? No not airbrushed. Banned! You have nothing to offer here except leftwing slogans and talking points.

JC

10 Mar 13 at 5:09 pm
Kudos also to my local extremely hardworking local member Nick Catania who saw the error of his ways and defected to the WA Nats.

http://www.elections.wa.gov.au/results/sg2013/la/NWL

This caused great hatred towards him from the ALP that surprised even him. Even Steven Smith made a snide remark last night and the ABC’s coverage of his seat was very sparse (probably because the result was “inconvenient” as Labor directed preferences to the Liberal candidate)

Ripper

10 Mar 13 at 5:23 pm
The WA election shows that anyone can get into parliament. Family first and the shooters and fishers party won an upper house seat. Complete amateurs!

Jim Rose

10 Mar 13 at 6:20 pm
Have you got a link for that, Jim? Can you tell me what the quota is for an upper house seat in WA? Cheers

Helen Armstrong

10 Mar 13 at 6:29 pm
“Why is it that Labor’s projected total always blows out after 2-3 hours of counting?? This happens every election. You never hear of Liberals doing a late “clawing back”, only Labor.” – Fisky

I have noticed that too. In the Victoria election, the early counting showed the Coalition winning a bigger majority until a late surge almost put Labor and the Coalition level on seats. You never see a late surge to the Coalition in counting later in the night.

One possible variable is that smaller booths are more likely to favour the Liberals or Nationals, and they tend to come in first. But the projected results are supposed to factor in the swings and where the votes come from on a booth-by-booth basis, so once enough booths are in and there is at least some booths in from the key seats this should have largely been worked through. The only exception is if booths that favour the LNP register pro-LNP swings and booths that favour the ALP register pro-ALP swings compared to the previous election.

It is somewhat different when one side is behind on counting at the end of the night but then wins after postal votes, pre-polls and absentees are counted. There is a certain amount of selection bias as to who chooses to vote at the booth versus who chooses to vote postal or absentee etc., and so the demographics and voting patterns can be somewhat skewed. But how the votes come in on election night should be more random, and with large numbers of votes random error margins should be reduced.

I found it slightly odd that in last night’s count there were no results coming in from seats like West Swan, Gosnells and Belmont until much later in the night. Labor ended up holding all those seats (even though Gosnells and West Swan would have easily fallen on a uniform swing, while Belmont would have been on the cusp of falling), and even though there were much larger swings against Labor in neighbouring seats to the east of Perth.

Monkey's Uncle

10 Mar 13 at 6:30 pm
Ripper, I think you mean Vince Catania. Nick Catania was his father, who was a former state Labor MP for Balcatta I believe.

Monkey's Uncle

10 Mar 13 at 6:33 pm
Ripper, I think you mean Vince Catania. Nick Catania was his father, who was a former state Labor MP for Balcatta I believe.

You are most certainly correct. How embarrassment.

More worrying is that there are 4 x green voters in town.

Ripper

10 Mar 13 at 8:59 pm
There’s actually very little difference between the Liberals and Labor in WA. This result was a ringing endorsement of Gillard and Swan.

There will always be a big difference between Liberal and Labor. For one thing, Liberal didn’t support the AWU in wide combs, something for which they will never, ever be forgiven for in rural WA.

I don’t see why libertarians would be cheering a WA Liberal landslide.

Because it means The Greens have zero power now.

By the way there is no LNP coalition in WA. The Liberals had to buy National Party support to form the previous government.

The WA Liberals had counted on regional votes as a matter of course, and Brendon Grylls reminded them that WA regions are what produces most WA and Australia’s GDP.

They still work in Coalition, but they are now reminded that regional WA is not just going to bend over and take it up the arse any longer.

Yobbo

11 Mar 13 at 2:24 am
For one thing, Liberal didn’t support the AWU in wide combs, something for which they will never, ever be forgiven for in rural WA.

Meant to say:

For one thing, Liberal didn’t support the AWU in wide combs, something for which The ALP will never, ever be forgiven for in rural WA.

Yobbo

11 Mar 13 at 2:24 am
“We’re the party for people who only have their labor to offer”

What? So they represent no one. No one has *just* their labour to offer; from a first day on the job ditchdigger to a brain surgeon – they both offer their labour plus the expertise in delivering it. Unprecedented; an ALP leader concedes that his party represents the values of no one.

Perhaps Mark McGowan has been watching too many episodes of Futurama, where industrial robots have the right to vote.

Oh come on

11 Mar 13 at 4:11 am
C at 12.12 OO moderator, Jeff is making us think outside our bubble, you know we hate it when we are forced out of our comfort zone, it’s just too much for a libertarian to cope with,I’m such a sook so pulease impose the ban, pulease.

Uh, wake up Jeff. You flatter yourself enormously. There are actually have been some fairly high-rent trolls around these parts that have been around these parts, and most of then eventually eventually rushing to the water closest in terror (thanks, Blackadder).

I think it’s fair to say that not one person happy with the WA results and also read your output on this thread has been made ‘to think outside their bubble’ or ‘forced out of their comfort zone’. Lame cliches aside, your responses are easier to dismiss than an armless batsman.

Oh come on

11 Mar 13 at 4:34 am
C at 12.12 OO moderator, Jeff is making us think outside our bubble, you know we hate it when we are forced out of our comfort zone, it’s just too much for a libertarian to cope with,I’m such a sook so pulease impose the ban, pulease.

Uh, wake up Jeff. You flatter yourself enormously. Actually, there have been some fairly high-rent trolls around these parts that have been around these parts, and most of then were sent rushing to the water closest in terror (thanks, Blackadder) by the Cat regs, who know are skilled in the arts of flaying a leftist. You don’t stand a chance here; your departed comrades put up much more of a challenge than you could ever possibly muster before they finally were forced into doing the Harold.

I think it’s fair to say that not one person happy with the WA results and also read your output on this thread has been made ‘to think outside their bubble’ or ‘forced out of their comfort zone’. Putting aside the lame cliches which appear to have been lifted from a cheap 90s era MBA course about thinking outside the box (or bubble) and being forced out of a comfort zone, your responses are not in the least bit insightful and are easier to dismiss than an armless batsman.

Oh come on

11 Mar 13 at 4:43 am
Dammit. Double post, and PIMF.

Oh come on

11 Mar 13 at 4:44 am
The key difference between the LNP and ALP is that the LNP are not totally inept, economically illiterate, innumerate, half-arsed try-hard dickheads who couldn’t manage their way out of a wet paper bag.

Ideology aside, the ALP isn’t fit to govern because it can’t. They are Edward Penishands, accidentally fucking everything they touch.

wreckage

12 Mar 13 at 1:35 pm
Yobbo
You are talking events 30 years ago, your farming brethren are natural national party voters.

Mine workers are mostly FIFO city dwellers and eastern staters.

The wheatbelt has less relevance to the Pilbara than Perth does.

sdfc

12 Mar 13 at 8:41 pm
No Jeff.
There was me, the missus, the local copper, Willy the painter, and both cats, as well as Meg the sheep, and the two chooks.
Very rustic. And with no moon, the stars could be seen in their thousands.
Perhaps I didn’t miss that much at all.

Winston SMITH

13 Mar 13 at 11:00 am

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