Australia ousts conservative Prime Minister Scott Morrison

[poweRob]

I'm not going to even pretend I know much about Australian politics. But this seemed newsworthy when I came across it.

Australia ousts conservative Prime Minister Scott Morrison​

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SYDNEY — Australia delivered a stinging defeat to the ruling conservative coalition on Saturday in what amounted to a personal rebuke of Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s abrasive brand of leadership.​

The result paves the way for opposition leader Anthony Albanese to become the next prime minister, local broadcasters reported. But it was unclear whether his center-left Labor Party would win an outright majority or be forced to negotiate with a handful of independent and Greens candidates elected on platforms of combating climate change.​

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Australians faced a stark choice between the combative conservative incumbent and the progressive challenger who promised a sunnier style.​

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Polls suggested that Morrison’s pugilistic approach to governance had exhausted Australians, hampering his Liberal-National coalition as it aimed to reach a decade in power. Morrison, who took office in 2018, admitted before the election to rubbing some people the wrong way. He compared himself to a “bulldozer.”​

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Albanese described himself as a “builder” who would boost wages and broaden opportunity. But after early stumbles, it was unclear for much of Election Day whether he had built enough momentum to oust his sharp-elbowed rival.​

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Many voters said they were rejecting both major parties, however, a disillusionment that appeared headed for a record level this election.​

 

[soylentgreen]

Yahooo! They swapped one old white man with another.

Now you know all you need to know about australian politics.

 

[Sven Karma]

Is the Australian voting fptp like in the UK?

 

[soylentgreen]

Is the Australian voting fptp like in the UK?

No they have what is called preferential.

Voters are required to rank each candidate in order of preference by placing numbers next to their names on the ballot paper. So, for example, if there are five candidates, voters will be required to number the candidates in order from one to five.

In the first stage of counting, the first preference votes are totaled and if one of the candidates receives more than half of the votes, then they are elected. However, if there is no majority, then the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated and those voters are redistributed based on the voter’s preferences.

If the candidate who received the voter’s first preference is eliminated during the first count because he or she received the lowest number of votes, the vote will then be allocated to whichever candidate was the voter’s second preference. If this candidate is also eliminated, the vote will be allocated to the voter’s third preference, and so forth until there are only two candidates remaining. The winning candidate will be whichever of these candidates wins the most votes after all preferences have been allocated between the two remaining candidates.

 

[Jay Falcon]

Good for Australia.

Isn't Morrison a Climate Change denier? It's crazy for someone ro run in Oz with that platform.

 

[beefheart]

I'm not going to even pretend I know much about Australian politics. But this seemed newsworthy when I came across it.

Australia ousts conservative Prime Minister Scott Morrison​

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SYDNEY — Australia delivered a stinging defeat to the ruling conservative coalition on Saturday in what amounted to a personal rebuke of Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s abrasive brand of leadership.​

The result paves the way for opposition leader Anthony Albanese to become the next prime minister, local broadcasters reported. But it was unclear whether his center-left Labor Party would win an outright majority or be forced to negotiate with a handful of independent and Greens candidates elected on platforms of combating climate change.​

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Australians faced a stark choice between the combative conservative incumbent and the progressive challenger who promised a sunnier style.​

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Polls suggested that Morrison’s pugilistic approach to governance had exhausted Australians, hampering his Liberal-National coalition as it aimed to reach a decade in power. Morrison, who took office in 2018, admitted before the election to rubbing some people the wrong way. He compared himself to a “bulldozer.”​

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Albanese described himself as a “builder” who would boost wages and broaden opportunity. But after early stumbles, it was unclear for much of Election Day whether he had built enough momentum to oust his sharp-elbowed rival.​

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Many voters said they were rejecting both major parties, however, a disillusionment that appeared headed for a record level this election.​

They had extensive coverage of this on NPR yesterday before the vote. Good on the Aussies!

 

[Moi621]

Yahooo! They swapped one old white man with another.

Now you know all you need to know about australian politics.

Explains why I Do Not Like
Parliamentary Government

No chance for a fresh face to become
the chief executive.
Two parties both the same as the other.

Australia needs a new, style separation of powers constitution
that would allow hypothetically, allow any native born citizen
to run for president or PM.


Moi

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[uptower]

What no cries of rigged elections? No storming Parliament? They just gracefully conceded?

Can these guys even call themselves conservatives?

 

[Manc Skipper]

Is the Australian voting fptp like in the UK?

We'll have to work that bit harder to get rid of our Murdoch candidate like the USA and Aussies have done.

 

[Sven Karma]

Explains why I Do Not Like
Parliamentary Government

No chance for a fresh face to become
the chief executive.
Two parties both the same as the other.

Australia needs a new, style separation of powers constitution
that would allow hypothetically, allow any native born citizen
to run for president or PM.


Moi

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And that's worked out so well in the US where Reps and Dems connived to rig the system to exclude the possibility of 3rd party candidates prospering?

Ironically, given the number of status quo maintaining UK politicians who have been members of the Oxford Union, it uses preferential voting for its own internal elections.

 

[Serenity]

Our "Independence Day" has arrived.

The federal election has been dubbed "independence day" as a wave of teal candidates took a sledgehammer and smashed through seats held in Liberal heartlands.
A huge groundswell of support for action on climate change and a federal integrity commission has swept at least nine so-called "teal independents" into power, with voters abandoning traditional Liberal candidates in droves.
All the new teal independents to win a seat have been female and almost all have displaced a male Liberal candidate.

'Independence day' as Teals pick off key seats in Liberal heartlands

www.9news.com.au

The primary vote is the interesting part.
35.4 voted for the The Liberal–National Coalition
32.3 for Labor - less than one in three Australians - (which is actually lower than the primary vote labor got in the 2019 election so their primary vote has gone backwards.)

Bottom line - fewer than one in three Australians put Labor number 1 but that is the party that will form Government.

 

[Serenity]

Scomo concedes defeat. This is how you do it.

Respect.

 

[ThirdTerm]

Scott Morrison lost the general election because he mishandled recent natural disasters in Australia. He wasn't on the ground when he needed to be, vacationing in Hawaii. There are the infamous pictures of Scott Morrison on vacation in Hawaii, set against families fleeing their burning homes under smoky orange red skies during the Black Summer bushfires. When he eventually went to the fire-ravaged areas, he was heckled by angry locals and video of people refusing to shake his hands went viral.

Australia election: How Scott Morrison ran out of miracles

Australia's defeated PM had a carefully cultivated image, but it failed him in the end.

www.bbc.com

 

[Phys251]

Australia's 'climate election' shows shifting priority for voters

Climate change polled as a major issue among the public, with the Greens and eco-conscious independents making the largest gains.

www.nbcnews.com

Good for Australians.

 

[multivita-man]

We'll have to work that bit harder to get rid of our Murdoch candidate like the USA and Aussies have done.

They don't exactly go quietly into the night.

 

[multivita-man]

Scomo concedes defeat. This is how you do it.

Respect.

It's sad that we have to be reminded that conceding is a democratic act. America wins the participation trophy, I reckon.

 

[LadyMoonlight]

The Liberal Party is no longer a conservative party, it is LaborLite. Australia, with Labor in charge is now going to be as screwed as America. Just have to wait for 3 years until idiot Australians say "Oh dear, we made a stupid mistake" and the Liberal Party will be back in power. The TEALS are not Independents (they are Holmes a Court's little pets - Greens in disguise).

 

[Sven Karma]

The Liberal Party is no longer a conservative party, it is LaborLite. Australia, with Labor in charge is now going to be as screwed as America. Just have to wait for 3 years until idiot Australians say "Oh dear, we made a stupid mistake" and the Liberal Party will be back in power. The TEALS are not Independents (they are Holmes a Court's little pets - Greens in disguise).

I've seen references to the teals, who are they?

 

[j brown's body]

Rupert Murdich's influence seems to be waning there.

 

[Manc Skipper]

They don't exactly go quietly into the night.

The "Partygate" enquiry is due out tomorrow. Johnson looks set to survive yet again. Someone joked that if he comes out badly from it he might start a war with Russia to divert attention! They were told to shut up and not give him ideas!

 

[Sven Karma]

We'll have to work that bit harder to get rid of our Murdoch candidate like the USA and Aussies have done.

Shouldn't be too difficult, there's one Australian constituency that is bigger than Britain in itself.

 

[Sven Karma]

Rupert Murdich's influence seems to be waning there.

The guy who was behind BoJo's 2019 campaign was behind this unsuccessful one.

 

[Sven Karma]

The "Partygate" enquiry is due out tomorrow. Johnson looks set to survive yet again. Someone joked that if he comes out badly from it he might start a war with Russia to divert attention! They were told to shut up and not give him ideas!

I dunno. Some poor schmo did get a fine for being at the event for which we can now see Boris raising a glass surrounded by party stuffs. So when in the Commons he was specifically asked about that date and he said "no, everything was by the rules" then the question of him having lied to Parliament does become an issue, whereas lying to the rest of us is just political business as usual.

 

[Manc Skipper]

Shouldn't be too difficult, there's one Australian constituency that is bigger than Britain in itself.

The British press is owned by 4 millionaires (including Murdoch) none of whom pay tax here.

 

[Ishm]

Scotty from marketing never really connected with the people. Would be nice to think that the election was a rejection of the crazy type of fundamentalist conservatism invading the US, but pretty sure that isn't the case unfortunately. Big difference though in Australia is the full separation of church and state.