{"id":45081,"date":"2019-05-29T17:16:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T07:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=45081"},"modified":"2019-06-06T01:32:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T15:32:21","slug":"antifa-notes-may-29-2019-2019-australian-federal-election-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=45081","title":{"rendered":"antifa notes (may 29, 2019) : 2019 Australian federal election edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Joy of Fools!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Briefly:<\/p>\n

\u2022 To the surprise of pundits and pollsters, the ruling Liberal-National Coalition won majority government at the 2019 Australian federal election, with a likely total of 77 seats in the 151-seat parliament. Rah rah rah! They’re going to smash the oiks!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 Many blame rural and regional Queenslanders, along with the good burghers of western Sydney, for Labor’s loss. In Queensland, Labor’s equivocal position on the Adani coal mine<\/a> has been blamed<\/a> for it obtaining an extraordinarily low primary vote; further, ‘Labor was decimated in Queensland, but an examination of the “Adani” coal mining seats of Dawson, Capricornia and Flynn for example show a negligible increase in the LNP primary vote but a collapse in Labor’s vote and subsequent increase in One Nation’s vote’ (Labor has a problem and its name is Pauline<\/a>, Jody Fassina, The Sydney Morning Herald, May 28, 2019). In Sydney, ‘Labor bled votes in its heartland of western Sydney because aspirational voters feared its economic policies, while social conservatism was another factor cited by experts and insiders for the party\u2019s loss of supporters’ (Why Labor bled votes in its Western Sydney \u2018heartland\u2019<\/a>, Rashida Yosufzai, SBS, May 24, 2019). See also<\/em> : It wasn’t Bob Brown who lost the election, it was the Labor Party<\/a>, James Norman, ABC, May 26, 2019 | It’s a myth that Aussie battlers handed the Coalition its election victory<\/a>, Shaun Ratcliff, The Guardian, May 24, 2019 | North Queensland is just at the sharp end of what\u2019s happening across Australia<\/a>, Jason Wilson, The Guardian, May 21, 2019.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Preference flows from Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party (PHONy) and Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party<\/a> (UAP) voters appear to have secured victory for the Coalition in a number of seats in Queensland, but the billionaire mining magnate failed to (again) get bumped into parliament, none of UAP’s candidate obtained more than a handful of votes, and while PHONy didn’t do too badly — its national primary vote doubled — it too failed to gain any further seats, with Senator Peter Georgiou (WA) out and Malcolm Roberts (QLD) in.<\/p>\n