Property chat election time!

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Poll closed 21st Apr, 2019.

  1. Liberal/National

    56 vote(s)
    61.5%

  2. Labor

    21 vote(s)
    23.1%

  3. Green

    6 vote(s)
    6.6%

  4. PHON

    3 vote(s)
    3.3%

  5. SFF

    2 vote(s)
    2.2%

  6. PUA

    3 vote(s)
    3.3%
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  1. Lizzie

    Lizzie Well-Known Member

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    Damn - no online voting ... looks like I've got to toddle down to the early polling booth
     
    Lizzie, 29th Apr, 2019
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  2. geoffw

    geoffw Moderator Staff Member

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    My wife left Australia yesterday, just too early to register for a mail vote. She has to toddle down to her local embassy, in the week before.
     
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    geoffw Moderator Staff Member

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    The latest Newspoll had Labor only 2 points ahead (51 to 49) on 2pp. Sportsbet odds for Labor have weakened in recent weeks, now 1.33 from 1.14, with Coalition down to 3.3.
     
    geoffw, 29th Apr, 2019
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  4. shorty

    shorty Well-Known Member

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    Poor misunderstood Pee-wee.

    The irony of someone who accused Turnbull of not having enough political nous, getting comprehensively rogered at a leadership ballot that he thinks he orchestrated is just sublime. ScoMo showed him how it's done - behind the scenes, keep your hands clean and find a fall guy who drinks his own bathwater to do the killing for you. Then Bradbury your way to the finish line.

    I have no sympathy for Dutton. He's just another shouty troglodyte with no vision other than personal empire building. Home Affairs is a pretty good example of that at the ministerial level. Keep in mind that he wanted that 'worst job in the country' because it was probably the second most powerful after PM.

    He also wanted to privatise visa processing which from a national security perspective is just insane.

    I think he knows he's cooked - already sold off his Canberra apartment
     
    shorty, 29th Apr, 2019
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    I think because a lot of punters simply do not like Shorten. Several I have spoken to would vote Labor if Penny or Tanya or Albo were in the top job - but not Shorten
     
    Lizzie, 29th Apr, 2019
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    geoffw Moderator Staff Member

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    The leader is always going to be the one in the spotlight, and the other party is always going to be exploiting any perceived weaknesses.

    I would have thought that the leader should be less of a concern here than in the US.

    Personally, I think the dividend imputation is causing problems with the older voters. While negative gearing and CGT might hit higher income people more, dividend imputation will hit potentially more lower-income people, Labor's heartland.
     
    geoffw, 29th Apr, 2019
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    Arggg...***** me no end when I hear that. You don't vote for the prime minister, you vote for your local member. If they wanted a president they should have voted yes to a republic years ago, except John Howard rigged it to split the republic movement.
     
    TSK, 29th Apr, 2019
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  8. shorty

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    I say vote for the party. Members come and go, and may have little influence Know the party and vote for that
     
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    Hope for Liberal still alive.
     
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    Indeed ...
    Feels like Labour are trying to buy their way in to Government. Free this and free that ...

    Both sides are hopeless though, no vision or plan for the future of the country.
     
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    I totally agree - I vote for the party, not the person. Sadly, a lot of people will vote for Clive due to similar like/dislike spin similar to the like/dislike of Shorten or Scomo

    However, glad I won't be voting for this party ... who's top married-dedicated-family-man Senate candidate was caught groping a stripper on a recent USA trip ... One Nation sleeze strikes again

    ‘Family man’ Senate candidate filmed groping dancer in US strip club
     
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  12. Sackie

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    Agree with your sentiments . I vote liberal not because they are great but because id rather keep more of my hard earned money than less with a labor gov.

    Both sides aren't great at all but labor's fundamental ideology to me is just unacceptable to ever get my vote .
     
    Sackie, 29th Apr, 2019
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    I dont know - Many of us voted Liberal some years ago and the country got Abbott. It's been going downhill since then.
     
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    geoffw, 30th Apr, 2019
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    So One Nation's Steve Dickson was ok to continue as a candidate after being sprung trying to solicit donations from the NRA, but has been forced to resign after being sprung at a strip club. Does this say something about what the public thinks is important in Australia?

    An interesting typo - possibly a Freudian slip in the last line of his statement:
    Screenshot_20190501-084617.png
     
    geoffw, 1st May, 2019
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    You think you have problems. Canberra now has three electorates so we now have the opportunity to put an additional politician on the payroll. I can only apologise for imposing this on the rest of Australia.

    I intensely dislike one particular candidate for the Senate for allowing his religious views to oppose good public policy and social equity. Irrespective of my opinion on any of the parties policies I cannot in good conscious place this candidate anywhere but last on the ballot when I cast my vote.
     
    SatayKing, 1st May, 2019
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  18. geoffw

    geoffw Moderator Staff Member

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    He's now been disendorsed, and rightly so.

    I don't know about foot in mouth so much as a lot of work being done by journalists in digging up what people have said.

    His remarks were a lot worse than another candidate's views that private schools are better than government schools.
     
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    geoffw, 1st May, 2019
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    Yeah! :( I will only vote for the incumbent government because the alternative have never scared me more :eek:
     
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