I’m looking on the positive side of things. Big swings in voters back to the Liberals is trending in the right direction. Libs look like picking up Kalamunda and the Nats will just edge out the Libs in in the Murray-Wellington electorate. That would take both to 6 and 5 respectively. 11 in total, a lot better than 6 last term and with momentum. I think Libby needs to pick up a more positive vibe.
Not if you look at Hullet - shes, a greens funded by climate 200 a lot more nutty than whats there at the moment tbh, at any rate she will sit there for four years totally ignored and irrelevant in a alp dominated house, freo will be worse off.
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Maybe so Baz…but McGurk was just incompetent and a total waste of space. Hullet can just sit there, draw a salary, make a few noises about climate change and generally be as ineffectual as the other no hopers on the WA cross bench.
It’s the upper house I’m concerned about with those Green nutcases having the balance of power. If I were Meg O’Neill and the big 3 miners I’d be getting nervous about now.
Was thinking that maybe the WA voters were not prepared to fully turn on the incumbent, as has been said before they are a centralist government unlike the lefties in Canberra and have had a dream ride with Covid, huge mining royalties and the massive increase in GST returns. Hopefully WA voters are keeping their powder dry for a protest vote against the ALP Feds.
My guess is that the stat Libs encourage Mettams to stay on for 18months - 2 years then she will step down for the “anointed one” who will have had that time in parliament to at least know where the front door of the House is located.
Yep agree SS. Mettam stays on for a while longer to get some experience in the newbies and also to see if any natural leaders step up.
Kudos to Mettam for taking on the toughest job in Australian politics. At least she did her best and saw it through to the bitter end. I don’t think anyone could question her work ethic, tenacity or resilience, unfortunately it wasn’t enough.
Still no votes counted today in Fremantle.
Still at 59% counted.With a,0.6 % lead to the Teal Candidate.
The rezoning of the Fremantle state seat added parts,of the Curtin federal seat.
.The lady in front wants to close down all Wa,Lng projects.
Maybe so Baz…but McGurk was just incompetent and a total waste of space. Hullet can just sit there, draw a salary, make a few noises about climate change and generally be as ineffectual as the other no hopers on the WA cross bench.
It’s the upper house I’m concerned about with those Green nutcases having the balance of power. If I were Meg O’Neill and the big 3 miners I’d be getting nervous about now.
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Agree on the Greens, The Freo Teal is Anti Burrup and wants to stop all future Gas Projects, she wont have a say downstairs but as you say the Greens nutjobs will be a big problem now that Pettit has some say; the bloke that sent Freo broke, is a real nightmare, only good I see is the Libs and Nats will team up with Alp to get through any meaningful resources projects.
[quote=“gtrxuone post=241057 userid=2215”]Still no votes counted today in Fremantle.
Still at 59% counted.With a,0.6 % lead to the Teal Candidate.
The rezoning of the Fremantle state seat added parts,of the Curtin federal seat.
seat.The lady in front wants to close down all Wa,Lng projects.
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True Gtrx, Fremantle lost a big chucnk of old school blue collar in Hammy Hill and Spearwood that changed to dynamic to a real inner city greens bastion, gee I was down the Dav ( South Beach Hotel ) Saturday and some of the locals are real out there now, that area is a world away from the working class warfie robbs jetty 70s.
Will be a waste of time Mettam staying leader of the party if she is just being used as a seat warmer! Would be a bad look for some one else to replace her before the next state election. The libs need to get organized, all be on the same page with no stuffing around. I guess that is easier said than done. I guess an announcement will be made after the votes all been counted. For mine the counting of the votes been slow.
I am only going by what figures were after polling close on Saturday, as most here are I guess.
But the Libs can claim nothing so far.A massive swing agaisnt aLabor, mostly going to Green, Indies, One Nation and as would be expected the Nats.
Labor need to take more notice of what the country folk are saying.But a massive win, regardless, by Labor.
Fremantle, is a surprise to me. That is an enormous swing to the Indie candidate.
I woul dhave thought that if there was going to be that sort of swing, it would have come from theb Greens.The Greens and their supporters have for years been chipping away at the sould of Fremantle.It is not the same Fremantle that was once a stamped Labor seat before an election was actually called.
Bu, the majority of the voting public, though disgruntled with Labor, were not going to go back to a negative government.
As for the Upper house, the Legislative Council, the Labor government changed the way it was voted on, and many said that it would favour Labor in the way that the vote was changed.
I wonder how many now say, it has theexact opposite effect.
LAbor looks like going back into a minor role in that respect.
I noticed the Libs bloke on the ABC was critical of Labor having changed that vote,but didn’t conced the obvious, that Labor have given the strength back to the country in the ay that it has panned out.
Again, Labor, like most times they have had control in the Lower house, now have to battle to get pol,icies past.
The Liberals have almost always had the power of the Uper house to stop Labors power in the Lower House.
Well done Labor, at least… another four years in power.
[quote=“westaussieguy post=241060 userid=881”]Will be a waste of time Mettam staying leader of the party if she is just being used as a seat warmer! Would be a bad look for some one else to replace her before the next state election. The libs need to get organized, all be on the same page with no stuffing around. I guess that is easier said than done. I guess an announcement will be made after the votes all been counted. For mine the counting of the votes been slow.
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Very slow vote counting
I think best way forward is combined Liberal National Party along Qld lines.
Mettam will probably sit around for a while, not much will happen now that the dust settles, 4 years is a long time, plenty of seats in reach for 2029.
Good to see footage of Basil Snozz doing the Zorba back at his campaign headquarters’s,because earlier in the night when things weren’t looking that rosy as he sat on the panel dissecting the numbers,he had for mine,taken the appearance of a constipated Santorini mountain goat,as he really looked like he was under severe duress.
[quote=“royallucky post=241070 userid=2921”]Good to see footage of Basil Snozz doing the Zorba back at his campaign headquarters’s,because earlier in the night when things weren’t looking that rosy as he sat on the panel dissecting the numbers,he had for mine,taken the appearance of a constipated Santorini mountain goat,as he really looked he was under severe duress.
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LOL, a very funny assessment of Nasal.
LOL, a very funny assessment of Nasal.
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I’ve met him socially a few times many years ago HLAS,and I can’t say I’m a big fan as his goofy TV persona is in direct contrast to his aloof personality off screen,as well as the fact he’s a big Trump guy,which is never an endearing quality for me.
it won’t matter who gets elected in WA or anywhere else when it comes to the NW shelf gas
John Howard signed it away to China for peanuts yonks ago
then bleated that it was the best deal ever
less than 10 years later it became the worst deal in our history
no way anyone can shutter anything up there
regardless of who they think they can be
or actually are
Hooklineandsinker
As a gun owner .Recon Labors gun reforms because of 1 idiot.Would of been very unpopular ,outside of Perth.
Baz
It looks like Kwinana has picked up Freos best Labor pockets.Making Cooks seat one of the safest Labor seats both state and federal,in Australia .And made Freo very dodgy for Labor going fwd.
[quote=“gtrxuone post=241075 userid=2215”]Hooklineandsinker
As a gun owner .Recon Labors gun reforms because of 1 idiot.Would of been very unpopular ,outside of Perth.
Baz
It looks like Kwinana has picked up Freos best Labor pockets.Making Cooks seat one of the safest Labor seats both state and federal,in Australia .And made Freo very dodgy for Labor going fwd.
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I am sure that is the case, but the sheep export was a major issue as well.
It bemuses me why the Libs did not run with the Nats on this sheep issue.
I also think that the welded on old fart, the smelly type, have a lot to answer for.
I watched interviews where Mettam was getting a chance to speak,Stnding over her, as in a case of, be careful, I am waatching was the Preacher Goiran.He is a bad man I reckon, For all his preaching there is something amiss with him.Not a likeable person. Remember he preached for three days , I think prior to the previous election, on , I think right to death, either that or abortion.He wasted three days whe n parliament should have been doing proper Parliamentary things.A wast of time and he is a waste of space.
I rexckon there would not be a person who likes him. A religious zealot.
Hooklineandsinker
I know the Wa Libs have had a lot of idiots behind closed doors,in,Wa.Starting all the infighting.
As for the live Sheep exports.It will adventually be something taken out of Wa hands.And probably the Federal Government also.Some rule imposed by the UN.The Arabs will have to work in Wa based abottores.
Apparently the seat of Fremantle has tightened up and could go either way at this stage.
I got my hyphens mixed up before. Libs in front by a bees dick in Kalamunda, comfortably ahead in Murray-Wellington. That takes them to 7 seats. Nats ahead in Warren-Blackwood giving them 5. The independent in Fremantle has taken a 2% lead over McGurk.
[quote=“gtrxuone post=241077 userid=2215”]Hooklineandsinker
I know the Wa Libs have had a lot of idiots behind closed doors,in,Wa.Starting all the infighting.
As for the live Sheep exports.It will adventually be something taken out of Wa hands.And probably the Federal Government also.Some rule imposed by the UN.The Arabs will have to work in Wa based abottores.
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Supporting live animal export is right up there with opposing gun control as toxic policy.