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Australia has a new government - bonza
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113333
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11/24/2007 4:56 AM
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[link to vtr.aec.gov.au]
Polls closed here (my part of OZ) about 2 hrs ago and already Labour has trounced the Coalition and it looks like poor Johnny might lose his own seat of Bennelong.
Better start packing your bags Johnny.
Wonder how King George is going to take the news.
Labor sweeps to victory
ABC elections analyst Antony Green is predicting Labor will return to power after 11 years of Coalition government with a 20-seat majority.
The ABC elections computer predicts 85 seats for Labor in the new Parliament.
"At this stage we are looking like 85 seats for Labor, and that gives Labor a majority of 20 seats at this stage," Mr Green said.
"Now there may be a bit of moving up and down on that but at this stage that is settling down.
If Labor starts to slip behind in a few Queensland seats then maybe Western Australia will matter, but at this stage it's continuing to track towards a Labor government."
"The picture I'm seeing is that the Government is behind in everything," he added.
"We've got them [Labor] gaining 16 - I'm always prepared to say that's up or down two - but they're also ahead in six other seats which we still class as doubtful which were Liberal-held," he said.
"So that's why on this sort of basis - this is a probability-based exercise - they're not going to suddenly turn around in those."
Labor's deputy leader Julia Gillard says Labor has all but won.
"On the numbers we're seeing tonight, Labor is going to form a government," she said.
With counting underway in Queensland, Labor is polling strongly in leader Kevin Rudd's home state, strengthening its position.
Prime Minister John Howard is facing a battle to keep his seat of Bennelong.
Labor's Maxine McKew has led since counting began, but the two-party preferred count is neck and neck.
The Coalition also looks set to lose the bellweather seat of Eden-Monaro.
Former prime minister Bob Hawke has told Sky TV that Labor has won.
But Defence Minister Brendan Nelson is still reluctant to concede that the election is lost.
"It is looking very difficult for the government," Mr Nelson said. "It doesn't look as if it's going all that well for us in Queensland."
[link to www.abc.net.au] |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 132975
11/24/2007 5:30 AM | | Re: Australia has a new government - bonza | Quote |
Johnny obviously didn't invest wisely, in Diebold voting machines!
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113333
User ID: 210102
11/24/2007 5:35 AM
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Johnny obviously didn't invest wisely, in Diebold voting machines! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 132975
Bit of a shame that heh.
Wonder how he feels that he might lose his seat to Maxine McKew who was an ABC reporter before her first foray into the political arena - which was this election. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 330660
11/24/2007 6:04 AM | | Re: Australia has a new government - bonza | Quote |
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 132975
hehehe so true,,,,, but i heard them ballot boxes are made of cardboard! how easy is that....? |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 322684
11/24/2007 6:07 AM | | Re: Australia has a new government - bonza | Quote |
watch stock market Monday take a beating .This is a sad day for Australia we are going back to the stoneage. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 300229
11/24/2007 6:08 AM | | Re: Australia has a new government - bonza | Quote |
watch stock market Monday take a beating .This is a sad day for Australia we are going back to the stoneage. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 322684
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 322684
11/24/2007 6:13 AM | | Re: Australia has a new government - bonza | Quote |
labour sent us broke last time with massive overseas debt took 11 years for libs to wipe it out.Now there back watch our economy go down the stit shute again. |
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halaluyah
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11/24/2007 6:18 AM | | Re: Australia has a new government - bonza | Quote |
I live in oz and couldnt be happier.Finally rid of the mini dictator screwing around with workers rights. He is like all liberal minded politicians..ie bow to big buisness...suck up the elites arse and stuff the ordinary man in the street who's taxes are what is keeping this great country alive. |
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vee eight
User ID: 321021
11/24/2007 6:22 AM | | Re: Australia has a new government - bonza | Quote |
TOUGH TITTIES... TOUGH TITTIES...TOUGH TITTIES...TOUGH TITTIES...
Labour only means the CORPORATIONS are now in the firing line with NESARA LAW. I am part of that annoucement. The door is now OPEN for NESARA. I have 100% proof.
(((((((((( FREEDOM for the PEOPLE ))))))))))) |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 300229
11/24/2007 6:23 AM | | Re: Australia has a new government - bonza | Quote |
labour sent us broke last time with massive overseas debt took 11 years for libs to wipe it out.Now there back watch our economy go down the stit shute again. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 322684
You have very selective memory. When John Howard was treasurer from 1977-1983, he left a fucking mess. Did you forget about that one? |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 320681
11/24/2007 6:24 AM | | Re: Australia has a new government - bonza | Quote |
Well the proof will be in the pudding a few years from now...Should be fun in the short term as labour spends all the loot on us! |
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THE DOOM
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11/24/2007 6:35 AM
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so doomed
We cannot choose what we are..
Yet what are we but the sum total of our choices?
....and they always lead to DOOM!! |
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kalamity kool 
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11/24/2007 6:39 AM
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Fucking, eh? |
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Ossie bloke
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11/24/2007 6:47 AM | | Re: Australia has a new government - bonza | Quote |
The Australian electoral process is heavily computerized and as such can be easily rigged if both major parties agree to do so, for whatever reason. This election may or may not have been, for whatever reason. |
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Tribal Rythm
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11/24/2007 6:52 AM
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Kevin Rudd is the new PM. It is official. That's got to be better than having Howard the dictator and ass licker of the U.S Presidon't. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 300229
11/24/2007 6:57 AM | | Re: Australia has a new government - bonza | Quote |
-Bush Ally Toppled in Australia-
SYDNEY, Australia — Labor Party leader Kevin Rudd appeared set for a sweeping victory in Australia's elections Saturday, ending a conservative era and ushering in major changes to policies on global warming and the Iraq war.
The win handed outgoing Prime Minister John Howard a humiliating end to a career in which he became Australia's second-longest serving leader — and who had appeared almost unassailable as little as a year ago.
Potentially adding insult to injury, Howard was among government lawmakers in danger of losing his seat in Parliament — a result that would make him only the second sitting prime minister in 106 years of federal government to be dumped from the legislature.
Official figures from the Australian Electoral Commission showed Labor far in front with more than 60 percent of the ballots counted. Using those figures, an Australian Broadcasting Corp. analysis showed that Labor would get at least 81 places in the 150- seat lower house of Parliament — a clear majority.
"On the numbers we've seen tonight, Labor is going to form a government," deputy Labor leader Julia Gillard said on ABC television.
Howard was expected to concede defeat later Saturday, before Rudd would formally claim victory.
Howard's four straight election victories and 11 years in power make him one of Australia's most successful politicians. He has presided over an unprecedented economic boom, fueled by demand from China and India for coal and other resources dug from Australia's Outback.
But, at 68, Howard has suffered widespread perceptions that he has stayed too long.
Rudd, a 50-year-old former diplomat who speaks fluent Chinese, says Howard is ill-equipped to deal with new challenges like global warming and a high-speed Internet network.
He has said his first priority if he is elected will be to sign the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions, something Howard has refused for years to do.
Rudd also says he would withdraw Australia's 550 combat troops from Iraq, leaving twice that number in mostly security roles. Howard says all the troops will stay as long as needed.
Howard was one of U.S. President George W. Bush's staunchest allies, and reshaped Australia's image abroad with his unwavering support for Bush's war against terrorism.
Australia's foreign relations are not expected to change much if Rudd wins, however.
Mark Apthorpe, a 24-year-old information technology worker who lives in Howard's district of Bennelong, said that he was happy with the way the economy was being managed — but that he voted for Labor anyway because it was time for a change.
"Johnnie's said a few things that he has gone back on," Apthorpe said of Howard. "He's been around a long time, and he'll be gone in 18 months anyway."
Howard earlier this year announced plans to retire within about two years if he won the election, sparking claims of arrogance.
[link to www.foxnews.com] |
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jonk
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11/24/2007 7:00 AM
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Been mostly leaning to Liberal/Howard voter in the past but geez Am I glad to see this Yank/Jew sympathiser get kicked out !
btw, Howard is still in $50 Billion debt, it's all unfunded super liabilities from the Fed's public servants, the Defence Dept alone is $17 Billion unfunded.
And all the middle class welfare that Howard did ! Do you die hard Liberal Party wonks know how much the PS has grown by in Canberra ? Double ! Just for the Gov't run hand outs !
Don't ask me about the length, what about the width. |
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Anonymous Coward
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11/24/2007 7:14 AM | | Re: Australia has a new government - bonza | Quote |
Kevin Rudd is the new PM. It is official. That's got to be better than having Howard the dictator and ass licker of the U.S Presidon't. Quoting: Tribal Rythm
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LS
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11/24/2007 7:19 AM | | Re: Australia has a new government - bonza | Quote |
I live in oz and couldnt be happier.Finally rid of the mini dictator screwing around with workers rights. He is like all liberal minded politicians..ie bow to big buisness...suck up the elites arse and stuff the ordinary man in the street who's taxes are what is keeping this great country alive. Quoting: halaluyah 330811
the funny thing is, is that liberal has the opposite meaning here in the states. |
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ACDC
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11/24/2007 7:20 AM | | Re: Australia has a new government - bonza | Quote |
Yes and Kevin dear speaks fluent Mandarin and impressed the Chinese premier very much at the last APEC conference. Look to contacts (economic and political) with China being expanded beyond comprehension folks... |
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Anonymous Coward
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11/24/2007 7:26 AM | | Re: Australia has a new government - bonza | Quote |
watch stock market Monday take a beating .This is a sad day for Australia we are going back to the stoneage. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 322684
Its TRUE.....
Liberals have no brains...just emotions..... |
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Anonymous Coward
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11/24/2007 7:27 AM | | Re: Australia has a new government - bonza | Quote |
labour sent us broke last time with massive overseas debt took 11 years for libs to wipe it out.Now there back watch our economy go down the stit shute again. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 322684
Hey aussie did you know this????????????????????????????
"Now there back watch our economy go down the stit shute again."
Which Australian Bank will crash first?
The Reserve Bank of Australia has just pumped extra money into the banking system for the eighth time this month by injecting $1.44 billion into the system, more than the $1.01 billion "required" on the day. This is a sure sign that bailouts are already occurring locally in a global economy teetering on the edge of a complete banking collapse.
......blame Labor for that one. How good is Johnny and the Libs now hey?
Don't worry, Rudd is equally stupid, and so is dickhead, thick, dumb and stupid..the hoodwinked greenie, Peter Garrett. |
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Ossie bloke
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11/24/2007 7:42 AM | | Re: Australia has a new government - bonza | Quote |
Kevin Rudd is the new PM. It is official. That's got to be better than having Howard the dictator and ass licker of the U.S Presidon't. Quoting: Tribal Rythm
Cough... cough. So I gather you don't believe there is a new WORLD order. People who bother to cross boxes on ballot papers are either deluded and or ignorant. The pencil on a string in the voting booths is a subliminal clue as to how things really work. I am not saying that there are people busily rubbing out pencil marks or the like, although that may have happened in the past. But who are the people responsible for purchase of the complex web of computers used during the election? Do some of the 60000 scrutineer open up the cases, look at the motherboards then crack open and inspect the chips that contain firmware under a microscope? |
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bendude
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11/24/2007 7:43 AM | | Re: Australia has a new government - bonza | Quote |
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 132975
Australia doesn't need voting machines to rig an election. Every winner for at least 20 years was anointed by Rupert Murdoch.
John Howard was a criminal psycho who had to go, but mark my words, things are about to get a lot worse for those of us who would prefer freedom to slavery. |
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Anonymous Coward
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11/24/2007 7:43 AM | | Re: Australia has a new government - bonza | Quote |
No election will ever make things better, sometimes they just get worse at a slower rate.
A wise man once said that if voting could make any real difference they would make it illegal. |
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Anonymous Coward
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11/24/2007 7:44 AM | | Re: Australia has a new government - bonza | Quote |
I live in oz and couldnt be happier.Finally rid of the mini dictator screwing around with workers rights. He is like all liberal minded politicians..ie bow to big buisness...suck up the elites arse and stuff the ordinary man in the street who's taxes are what is keeping this great country alive. Quoting: halaluyah 330811
i am struggling for overtime $ at the moment.
things will get tougher when the sh1t hits the fan.
But really uncle howard should take a rest |
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Prof-Rabbit
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11/24/2007 7:44 AM | | Re: Australia has a new government - bonza | Quote |
Kevin Rudd is the new PM. It is official. That's got to be better than having Howard the dictator and ass licker of the U.S Presidon't. Quoting: Tribal Rythm
Too bloody right! when 86% of Aussies said don't send our troops to war Little Johnny stuck his nose up Bush's arse and sent them anyway, now we get them back fast! so instead of a nose Bush gets a foot up his arse! |
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Anonymous Coward
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11/24/2007 7:45 AM | | Re: Australia has a new government - bonza | Quote |
The dhimmitification of Australia begins. Kevin Rudd's heavy votes came from Muslim immigrants in Australia.
Anyone who posts a BS flag icon on that is a dhimmi. |
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vee eight
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11/24/2007 7:55 AM | | Re: Australia has a new government - bonza | Quote |
labour sent us broke last time with massive overseas debt took 11 years for libs to wipe it out.Now there back watch our economy go down the stit shute again.
Hey aussie did you know this????????????????????????????
"Now there back watch our economy go down the stit shute again."
Which Australian Bank will crash first?
The Reserve Bank of Australia has just pumped extra money into the banking system for the eighth time this month by injecting $1.44 billion into the system, more than the $1.01 billion "required" on the day. This is a sure sign that bailouts are already occurring locally in a global economy teetering on the edge of a complete banking collapse.
......blame Labor for that one. How good is Johnny and the Libs now hey?
Don't worry, Rudd is equally stupid, and so is dickhead, thick, dumb and stupid..the hoodwinked greenie, Peter Garrett. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 330828
I think many need to look outside the square box they live in. Nesara is quietly being moved into position as we speak, Australia may lead the annoucement, thats were I live in the the same electorate as Rudd, I have no policitical agenda to any party, I am here to assist with Nesara Law. The Federal Reserve worldwide that has had a hold on humanity with 'PUBIC DEBT' is sinking so fast, it is now close to collapse. The Euro has nothing nothing to do with Nesara, you can see no one wants the US Dollar, it's worthless and is finished. Nesara is next to be announced. I am personal part of the Nesara Law process that takes Earth Shan into the Age of Enlightenment. Everything will be explained on TV network broadcasts. |
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Prof-Rabbit
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11/24/2007 7:59 AM | | Re: Australia has a new government - bonza | Quote |
I am personal part of the Nesara Law process that takes Earth Shan into the Age of Enlightenment. Everything will be explained on TV network broadcasts. Quoting: vee eight 321021
Your a bloody wanker... |
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Anonymous Coward
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11/24/2007 7:59 AM | | Re: Australia has a new government - bonza | Quote |
Kevin Rudd is the new PM. It is official. That's got to be better than having Howard the dictator and ass licker of the U.S Presidon't.
Too bloody right! when 86% of Aussies said don't send our troops to war Little Johnny stuck his nose up Bush's arse and sent them anyway, now we get them back fast! so instead of a nose Bush gets a foot up his arse! Quoting: Prof-Rabbit 148352
yeah & let's see if St. Kevin has the balls to bring home the troops.. |
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