Australian Federal Election 2025

[Knobby22]

Lessons.

The result:
More Teals, less Greens,
More Labor seats, less Liberal.

Dutton showed grace and class.

Jacinta Price showed none of that and she is part of the problem.

Libs need to have a hard think and get back to being the Liberal Party I used to vote for.

That means ignoring the Republican party, turning off Sky News, telling Gina Rheinhardt to stop pulling strings and making them all read Bob Menzies manifesto.

Secondly, put together a plan that encourages enterprise, not property investment, encourage small business not overseas interests and most of all provide a clear cohesive alternative.

Cut loose the culture war desk jockeys who are mostly old blokes.
They can join Clive Palmer's party.
Get back on track.

I don't know who the new leader will be but I am sure it won't be Angus Taylor.

 

[sptrawler]

Lessons.

The result:
More Teals, less Greens,
More Labor seats, less Liberal.

Dutton showed grace and class.

Jacinta Price showed none of that and she is part of the problem.

Libs need to have a hard think and get back to being the Liberal Party I used to vote for.

That means ignoring the Republican party, turning off Sky News, telling Gina Rheinhardt to stop pulling strings and making them all read Bob Menzies manifesto.

Secondly, put together a plan that encourages enterprise, not property investment, encourage small business not overseas interests and most of all provide a clear cohesive alternative.

Cut loose the culture war desk jockeys who are mostly old blokes.
They can join Clive Palmer's party.
Get back on track.

I don't know who the new leader will be but I am sure it won't be Angus Taylor.

Just borrow more, chase the dream and more group hugs. Lol

 

[Knobby22]

Just borrow more, chase the dream and more group hugs. Lol

The Libs won't want to do that again. Promise a bigger debt than Labor.

I am fairly confident they will come back better in 3 years. Become the Liberal Party again.

 

[farmerge]

Are people watching the election or the football?

@SirRumpole I chose the ABC election coverage as I enjoy Antony Green's perspective on how it might go.
Sadly, tonight was his last election call.
30 years is a long time to be the main man when it comes to these occasions.

 

[farmerge]

Dutton loses his seat. The Liberal Party is in disarray. The Conservatives are dead.

I'm moving to Argentina.

The Libs federally are nearly as dead as they are here in WA.
Lack of just about everything when it comes to organising how to get the votes to be on the winning side.

 

[farmerge]

Bandt is in trouble. Going to be close!

@Knobby22 Antony Green reckoned it would be close but thought Bandit would just scrap in.
Pity.
Would be good to see the back of the Loon Brigade.

 

[farmerge]

The Libs won't want to do that again. Promise a bigger debt than Labor.

I am fairly confident they will come back better in 3 years. Become the Liberal Party again.

@Knobby22 They have to find a competent leader first.

 

[Knobby22]

@Knobby22 They have to find a competent leader first.

Yes, they lost of couple of potential leaders this election. It reminds me of what happened in Victoria. They might need to parachute someone in.

 

[farmerge]

Yes, they lost of couple of potential leaders this election. It reminds me of what happened in Victoria. They might need to parachute someone in.

Hmmm nobody comes to mind readily

 

[farmerge]

Yes, they lost of couple of potential leaders this election. It reminds me of what happened in Victoria. They might need to parachute someone in.

I thought that Peter Dutton's acknowledgement of Labour's win tonight was gracious
Pity he did not come across as sincere as this in the last five weeks.
It would be hard to swallow pride and admit defeat to the level which the Liberals suffered tonight.

 

[farmerge]

With the only new Federal Seat in the country for this election, Bullwinkle,
It looks to be a pretty close call at 9.30pm when the ABC stopped their broadcast.
I guess the result will be known in a day or two, along with the rest of the close ones.

 

[Smurf1976]

The Libs federally are nearly as dead as they are here in WA.

From the AEC website as of now on a state by state basis for the Liberal/National Coalition:

NT = 0 seats / out of 2 seats total.
ACT = 0/3
Tas = 0/5
SA = 2/10
WA = 4/16
Vic = 6/38
NSW = 11/46
Qld = 14/30

Which brings up an interesting point regarding the detail:

Liberal has 14 seats total.
SA = 2
Vic = 3
WA = 4
NSW = 5

Nationals have 9 seats total.
Vic = 3
NSW = 6

Liberal National Party of Queensland has 14 seats.

So Qld is the only state where they've been even remotely successful. If it wasn't for that, without Qld, they'd be pretty close to wiped out.

 

[StockyGuy]

Was hoping Dutton could somehow take the win, but Albo is not sooo bad, in the scheme of things.

Whoever takes over the Liberals leadership should be a more "smiley" guy. For all his shortcomings, Scomo was a big, jolly bear of a man. Angus Taylor is probably the way forward. It makes me shiver a little to imagine how much they might need to compromise core principle in order to win enough seats next time.

 

[farmerge]

From the AEC website as of now on a state by state basis for the Liberal/National Coalition:

NT = 0 seats / out of 2 seats total.
ACT = 0/3
Tas = 0/5
SA = 2/10
WA = 4/16
Vic = 6/38
NSW = 11/46
Qld = 14/30

Which brings up an interesting point regarding the detail:

Liberal has 14 seats total.
SA = 2
Vic = 3
WA = 4
NSW = 5

Nationals have 9 seats total.
Vic = 3
NSW = 6

Liberal National Party of Queensland has 14 seats.

So Qld is the only state where they've been even remotely successful. If it wasn't for that, without Qld, they'd be pretty close to wiped out.

Not does it matter who is your party of choice, a healthy and energetic Opposition is needed in every Parliament.
At present here in WA virtually no Opposition, pretty well wiped out at 2 elections now.
Federally much the same.
It has come to pass that the time is now ripe for the Liberal Party to realise that they are NOT born to rule the country, they have to earn the trust and respect of the peasants to vote them in.

 

[farmerge]

Was hoping Dutton could somehow take the win, but Albo is not sooo bad, in the scheme of things.

Whoever takes over the Liberals leadership should be a more "smiley" guy. For all his shortcomings, Scomo was a big, jolly bear of a man. Angus Taylor is probably the way forward. It makes me shiver a little to imagine how much they might need to compromise core principle in order to win enough seats next time.

A big change in attitude is needed.
Listened and cringed when Jacinta Whatever Price was bellyaching about the media slinging mud at her.
In my opinion not an asset to whatever party wants her.

 

[farmerge]

With approximately 8 million pre poll votes and postal votes out there, just maybe there could be a couple of seats changing colour from the projections of tonight.

 

[wayneL]

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Maybe @wayneL could come and look after the horses.

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Am practicing my Español as we speak

 

[Craton]

Even with the technology malfunction, Antony Green with notepad in hand called it early and was spot on.
What a whitewash for Dutton's mob!

AEC tally room results are interesting.
My interest of course being for my electorate. Notably the Green votes are well down and my reasoning on this is that punters were thinking, my Green vote will go to ALP, might as well vote ALP outright.

With a brief look at other electorates I also noted that the One Nation vote increased in some places by 10% over the last election.
Greens losing ground no doubt to other Teals/IND and as mentioned to the ALP.

So congrats to Albo and his mob. Dare I say he has a mandate...

P.S While watching Antony's last election broadcast, we ended up bypassing the planned Isle of Islay single malt tipples and settled instead, into finishing off the last of a Speyside stag logo instead.

 

[qldfrog]

Was hoping Dutton could somehow take the win, but Albo is not sooo bad, in the scheme of things.

Whoever takes over the Liberals leadership should be a more "smiley" guy. For all his shortcomings, Scomo was a big, jolly bear of a man. Angus Taylor is probably the way forward. It makes me shiver a little to imagine how much they might need to compromise core principle in order to win enough seats next time.

If you follow a few of my post, democracy and mandatory vote where a welfare recipient vote is as weighted as a business owner with 100 employees is a bribing game.
Once voting becomes a me me me game, and migration is big enough to remove any nation pride, it is a one way highway to full socialism communism and total economic oblivion poverty.
Any coming government changes will be weakling right wing, social democrats whose policies will just be similar
It was the last chance looking at demographic and numbers for a revival.
Add a million plus migrants sorry refugees , students, families and mail brides in the next 3 years and Australia is gone.
Even the following total economic collapse will not change that as any nationalism attempt will be forbidden and totalitarianism installed
See France, UK, Spain, Belgium,Germany etc but we know better,we will be different
Let's look at the show now...
First, the grid

 

[SirRumpole]

Absolutely, then they have two terms of Govrrnment and can't blame anyone else for the outcomes, which will be brilliant.

It doesn't get better than this IMO.

Rusted on now sp?