Haven’t seen another post for election updates yet, so creating this. Share your bets on how many times Anthony Green is going to have a screen malfunction.
Good news, apparently Australia does not like politicians who align themselves with fascists
Bad news, not a minority government
Not looking good for the greens at all, I’m really surprised Melbourne has turned on them by the looks of it ?
In the lower house. Senate currently looks likely to have a Greens balance of power. https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/federal/2025/results/senate
Beware the propaganda.
Do you think it was the Israel/Palestine stance?
I think it would have been the blocking of legislation last year, if anything.
But i have heard the seats they won last time were a bit of fluke narrow path to victory that would be hard to hold, but the ABC are saying they’re marginally increasing overall vote share 12.5% to 12.7%.
So maybe this will be a story about an aberration election, followed by a correction to their tradition of rising broad support across Australia.
If thats the case then they shouldn’t look at tonight’s outcome as a bad result, they gave the Majors their first genuine scare last election, with their vote share rising, this will make it more likely to happen in more diversified seats across the country. Thats a great future for the Greens, what they don’t want is to have a fate like the Nationals where they’re geographically cornered with no real avenue for growth as a Party.
I saved this from 5 months ago: https://aussie.zone/post/15598435/13409792
It’s not just the Israel/Palestine stance (which I don’t want to get into because I’ll get downvoted to heck) but a big part is housing, they were seen (rightly or wrongly) as delaying housing, as someone who voted for MMC to see him doing this killed me
There was other things but a big one that stands out to me was this:
The Reserve Bank should lower interest rates tomorrow and if they don’t, the Treasurer should use his existing powers to bring down interest rates
That is absolutely fucking insane, it might just be the most insane economics policy I’d ever seen, this is Donald Trump tier idiocy, it’s a similar line to wanting to get rid of the Fed Chair in America but even he backed off after realising how badly it would mess things up
The central bank is independent, if the government starts setting the rates then what is the point of the central bank?
There was loads of other things they did
I just hope that the greens take some lessons from this election
On Sky, Andrew Bolt just blamed Elon Musk for Peter Dutton not winning on Donald Trump’s platform.
I just can’t…
Omg, that’s fucking hilarious!
Man by the way they go on you’d think the greens had been in government.
Just jealous because you’re total babes.
All the running from the cops after vandalising signage keeps us fit and trim
People of Dickson had an opportunity to do the funniest thing of all term and they took it.
You bloody rippers you <3
A solid concession speech. Can’t imagine such a speech coming from any of the Liberal party’s leaders over the last decade.
Jeez, remember Malcolm Turnbull having a drunken tantrum on election night and threatening to send the AFP after the Labor party… That was his ACCEPTANCE speech.
Agreed. I’m not a fan of Dutton but his concession speech was mainly truth and from the heart. At least he’s somewhat graceful in defeat.
“I won’t mention pre-poll because people ARE drinking when I say ‘pre poll’”
Fucking LOL
I was wearing a Nazi uniform in a private Facebook post and it’s the media’s fault that the voting public found out about it. - Jacinta Price
That was some of the most twisted logic I’d ever heard.
I was wearing the hat as a joke, and four words have no meaning, but you need to take me seriously!
WAT?
She makes me sick.
She really has no self-awareness, does she? https://live.australiainstitute.org.au/2025/05/australia-institute-live-election-2025-results/#a87d1a79e7
Every former prime minister had a lot of great things to say about Antony Green except Morrison who used a lot of words to say absolutely nothing.
He said Antony was a professional 3 times. I knew a guy who was a church minister and he talked a lot, but never really said much because he said everything 3 times. I think they teach them that at church… Tell them what you will say, tell it to them and then tell them what you just said.
Scotty from marketing, a whole lotta words, not much substance.
Haha, yeah! It’s actually a little depressing to be reminded of his severe lack of leadership qualities.
Regardless of what I think of their policies, every other prime minister has had the leadership skills expected of the role they filled… Except Scotty who was nothing more than an incurious robot masquerading as a daggy dad.
I wonder how Gina is handling the news tonight
Did Jacinta just seriously waffle out an implied allegation that the AEC is corrupt? That’s fucking insane.
Oh shit wtf did she say?
Hmm, I can definitely see how you’d interpret it as accusing the AEC, but I don’t think that’s it. At worst, it’s accusing the AEC of failing to adequately kerb bad behaviour from Labor. But it was mostly accusing Labor and the media of being abusive. Unhinged, but not, I think, in the way you took it.
The AEC is responsible for ensuring that staffers/volunteers at polling boths are conducting themselves within the bounds of the law and that voters are not intimidated.
If she is alledging that people are being harrassed in line etc and the AEC is not reporting this/involving the police she is alleging AEC corruption.
Had me raising my eyebrows too.
This was my favourite part of tonight hahaha
Congrats on taking care of your garbage.
Yoo, nice result. Shout outs from Canada.
Dutton was poison and deeply unpopular already in the Scomo years. Looks like people didn’t forget. I’m starting to feel some landslide vibes here early on.
Pretty big swing against him in Dickson right now. He might lose his own seat.
I feel sorry for Dutton’s kids. They only have a choice of one out of eight properies each…
Very tough going
