That lucid analysis I promised two posts ago will still have to wait another day. In the meantime, I have added a new “photo finish” thread below for Dickson, where Labor’s lead is an uncomfortable 389 votes, to those already existing for Swan, Solomon, McEwen, Macarthur, La Trobe, Herbert, Bowman and the Victorian Senate. It would also be remiss of me not to note the very sad passing of Matt Price, taken far too young at 46.
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As I said before, Triffid at 1043.
Trollbludgers.
Not you, EsJ.
Although the media is full of trolls, Cornes probs were her own doing. Simple. Could not put two words together or talk about policy. I actually felt sorry for her. The Labor Party should have realised this. Especially when she has rarely voted Labor.
Cornes was a Cornflake.
Christ how could anyone vote for Pyne?
#1023 ESJ
I agree with you about the Tony Jones interview with Nicole Cornes. It was shameful. I was at an election party, and everyone watching the TV (many of whom were only occasional observers of politics) found that interview by Jones quite distasteful. And we really learned nothing about Cornes or her campaign, because his was trying to be smartarse with his questions.
1048 Voter Boy for someone who attacked me for homophobia doing the same about Pyne just confirms your own snivelling nature without mention of your apparent treachery towards people who are unfortunate enough to consider you a friend.
Sometimes wanker really is a very simple and concise way to describe an individual such as yourself.
I hope George Colbran gets up in Herbert: he’s the sort of small business success story Labor needs in parliament.
HH – Shame on you, I am sure all NSW candidates were treated exactly the same by the party!
Christopher Pyne on Lateline – says he’s confident the Liberals will win in 3 years time What a wanker.
Coonan also there. Both of them talking about the depth of talent in the Liberal party. I think they have both missed their calling writing comedy.
Antonio but have you read the Atheist Manifesto?
1023 ESJ- Do you mean the book by Onfray? Between Dawkins, Dennett, Harris and Hitchens I think think I’ve just about got atheism covered. Is there anything new in there? And when are we going to get an openly atheist PM for God’s sake!
Tony Jones lost a lot of credibility on Saturday night! I expect that sort of crap from a News Ltd hack, not an ABC journalist. The journalistic standards at the ABC have dropped alarmingly, thanks to the conservative majority on the board.
Pyne is like Downer a rich little boy who has never visited a poor area or travelled through one. Deputy he is not.
Lateline with Coonan & Pyne… could their be a worse pair to listen to? Maybe Downer I guess, but he’d already been on the 7.30 report…
Come on Tony you don’t have to be nice to these smarmy jerks anymore.
red wombat @ 1053. Can’t agree with you more there.
Why is the ABC still interviewing Liberals? The sooner the Conservative hacks are thrown off the board, the better.
Diogenes there is a link between my previous post and the book
I asked myself this repeatedly when handing out How to Votes in Sturt on Saturday.
The booth I worked at did its job – 7.97% swing to Labor, when it needed 6.8%
http://vtr.aec.gov.au/HousePollingPlaceFirstPrefs-13745-33187.htm
ESJ at 1055 – as a gay man I din’t find that comment homophobic – just stating a fact that there is a belief that Pyne is gay. Sometime you seem to be overcome by your own sense of self-importance.
I do believe Brendan Nelson will become the new Opposition Leader, now he will be quite interesting. The Liberal party’s purging of it’s social progressives in favor of it’s social conservatives might hurt them a lot in the next few years. To put it Australia is not the USA.
Labor in government and nothing has changed with the ABC, still full of conservative politicians being interviewed.
I have to turn it over…otherwise I am am going to stick pins in my eyes!
I am but a humble blogger like everyone else here Chris in LDN
Marky Marky: the commercial stations seem to be more excited about the new government. I guess the ABC still hates Rudd because he wouldn’t appear on that piece of crap “Insiders”.
I hope they select Nelson, as he is unelectable. Turnbull should be their choice.
Glen 1003 I have never been depressed in all my life. You should see the party photos, the bottles, the balloons, the posters, the people. We have been on the phone all night trying to reach Beyond Blue but for some reasons the lines were all busy. I wonder why? do you know why?
Coonan – ‘The Senate is not a rubber stamp’
‘ A house of review’
Robert Ray tipped their hand on Sat night, virtually stated that the ABC Board is high on the hit list, I wonder if Janet will cry too?
I visualise you as a pipe smoking basset hound at the keyboard of a circa 1995 Mac Color Classic.
Must agree with Coonan. Labor pollies going to schools, this is pure gimmicky petty bulldust.
Pastor Eddie @ 1055 – the man who puts moaney back into sanctimony. I do hope that the ‘new’ Liberal Party isn’t going to be full of people like you, pretending to be holier-than-thou so you can cleverly wedge all these right-wing Laborites. It’s not a convincing look. Still, good to see that your modus operandi hasn’t shifted since the whupping you got on Saturday.
ESJ- Im afraid you are going to have to enligten me about the link between the book and Cornes. BTW completely agree about Tony Jones. Absolutely disgraceful and patronising. If she handled herself as well during the whole campaign as during that interview she would have won.
1080, a bit like the orangutangs then is it?
I’m watching Coonan with the knowledge that I was perfectly justified in putting 78 next to her name.
I heard Barry Cassidy on radio this morning almost in tears at the loss of John Howard – and they wonder why Rudd won’t go on Insiders?
V.funny ShowsOn. Lol
Re: Nicole. Reiterating yet again and again.
It is really sad, for Nicole and for we down and outs in Boothby, that the ALP was so shortsighted.
Not to have run a candidate, for at least the last year (s) and to drop Nicole in it.
With a decent run up, preparation, like any sport, Labor would have had the greatest of chances.
Even more so than say, Kingston.
Given the me doo, what? Southcott, Nicole would have romped it in.
My personal apologies to Nicole.
Fine job, in my view. Against all odds. Not least Kevin Folly.
The Coalition needs to capture the youth vote.
That is going to be very difficult now with the loss of sk8erboy Vaile.
Diogenes remember the previous inference about the state minister, substitute author in ther place.
ESJ,
I agree (finally) that the media tratment of women is horrendously misogynistic. The interview by Jones is a disgrace and the assumtion is that Nicloe Cornes simply has to wear it because that is how politics is.
Well frankly, it is time for everyone to move on, judge women on what they do and not what they look like.
It is interesting the so called labor people bagging Jenny Macklin on this blog. Yeah, sure she was dispappointed about losing the deputy leadership, but since then she has helped write the Education revolution Policy that Rudd has used as his pre eminent message. She has also spent a huge amount of time on the Aboriginal issue. Not particularly glamourous, but doing the grass roots work that made Labor electable last Saturday and more importantly, having a fig leaf to fly with now that they have office.
I am sure that everyone has their favourites for promotion, but Labor needs policy wonks as much as they need the publicity seekers.
OK Triffid 1043,would that flush out the rattlers?
there are some you know.
Coonan still thinks she is a minister on Lateline. Pyne does not think the election outcome was a rejection of the Govt. Tony is doing a live cross to Egypt where most Libs have now escaped to.
You’re lucky, in S.A. I could only get the Liberals into the high 30s.
I was sadder that the National candidate for Forde didnt win than i was about Howard losing
Capn Jack, to think this was the genius that gave us the so called free trade agreement with the warmongers
I was listening to Talk Back Radio this afternoon in Melbourne and they were all going on about how biased the ABC is in favour of the Labor Party. I come on this site and you guys and all I hear is how biased the ABC is in favour of the Liberals. They must be doing something right to be accused of bias by both sides.
Libs, please select Pyne for a senior leadership position. He is obnoxious and whiney and seems to be quite clueless about why the Australian people deliberately turfed your party out of office. He will help ensure your party is not inflicted on us for a long time.
“We got wacked” – Turnbull details a more liberal drugs policy
Substitute the Cornes for certain journalistic couples.
1097 Kevin
Same goes for Bishop
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