#Australian Election 2022

[ohmygodshesinsane]

okay but no i am so so proud of my state and of all of us queenslanders. we’ve gone from being unquestionably the most conservative state that was blamed for losing labor last election to voting in two, possibly three greens seats for the first time ever, and we’ve had big swings towards labor even in these very safe lnp seats. these huge margins of 12%, 14%, 15% safety may start to be eroded, and who knows - our labor candidates could well be in with a chance in 2025. it’s small but it’s something. queenslander forever

#queensland #auspol #australian election 2022

[thehungrycity]

I am so glad that we can have the son of a single mother disability pensioner who grew up in public housing on the rough side of town as our PM.

"My fellow Australians, it says a lot about our great country that a son of a single mum who was a disability pensioner, who grew up in public housing down the road in Camperdown can stand before you tonight as Australia's Prime Minister.

"Every parent wants more for the next generation than they had. My mother dreamt of a better life for me. And I hope that my journey in life inspires Australians to reach for the stars.

"I want Australia to continue to be a country that no matter where you live, who you worship, who you love or what your last name is, that places no restrictions on your journey in life."

...

"During this campaign I have put forward a positive, clear plan for a better future for our country."

"And I have shared the two principles that will a government that I lead. No-one left behind because we should always look after the disadvantaged and the vulnerable. But also no-one held back, because we should always support aspiration and opportunity."

...

Together we can strengthen universal healthcare through Medicare.

"Together, we can protect universal superannuation. And we can write universal childcare into that proud tradition. Together we can fix the crisis in aged care. Together we can make equal opportunity for women a national economic and social priority. Together we can and will ... establish a national anti-corruption commission.

"And together we can embrace the Uluru Statement from the Heart. We can answer its patient, gracious call for a voice enshrined in our constitution. Because all of us ought to be proud that amongst our great multicultural society we count the oldest living continuous culture in the world."

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[raptorkin]

I just want this election to be over with BUT I am also terrified that the Coalition will get back in. It's going to be a long week and a bit.

#australia #auspol #australian election 2022

[agathahrknss]

the real mvp of this election is abc news election man

my favourite lil guy

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[claraameliapond]

ScoMo

More like

ScoNO

Please vote Labor

They're the only viable option

And bonus! In Labor we'll get a responsible ethically sound government

Who knows how to govern

And will respect human rights!

#Vote Labor #ScoMo #More like #ScoNO #AUSTRALIA #AUSTRALIAN ELECTION #AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 2022 #auspol #Australian Politics #Politics

[seymour-butz-stuff]

That Australia’s conservative party is called Liberals is going to cause so much confusion in American conservatives.

#australian election 2022 #australia news #world news #scott morrison #anthony albanese

[figsandfandoms]

It's started...

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[ohmygodshesinsane]

the only time i’ve been prouder to be a queenslander was the last time we won state of origin <3 go green baby

#queensland #nrl #state of origin #auspol #australian election 2022

[thehungrycity]

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[raptorkin]

Hit up the early voting because I'll probably be doing flood clean up on the farm during the actual election day, and UAP tried to give me a how to vote card.

I made aggressive eye contact and said "No" in such a tone that they involuntarily stepped back and nearly collided with a wall.

Australian Election 2022: Make bigots fear again

#australia #auspol #australian election 2022

[tartlette1968]

It's Friday night, election eve, and all the reports are saying the polls are tightening... and that absolutely sucks, because they just shouldn't be.

The gap should be a chasm, a chasm between the Katharine Deves supporting, arrogant, mansplaining, bully party; and the Teal candidates, Greens, and Labor.

Managing money? The Libs and Nats can't manage money. They undermined the sub contract with France that cost millions, they gave billions to some tiny little Barrier Reef organisation without a public tender process, and they doled out money to marginal seats again and again. Oh, and made a $60 million mistake with JobKeeper during the COVID lockdowns, oh and paid some of this money, intended to keep businesses afloat who were going to suffer losses, to businesses that actually INCREASED profits and turnover during the lockdown. They have continued to refuse to consider any kind of plan to recoup that money.

The gap should be as wide as the Tasman Sea.

Election eve.

Tomorrow night, as the TV starts flashing up the results, and Antony Green starts his autopsy of the seats, I predict that once again I will feel an awful sinking, depressing disappointment, as yet again, Australia crawls back into it's damp cave.

We'll have another three years of a Government that maintains, "We're only a tiny country, we don't produce that much carbon. We won't make that much difference if we produce more."

Back into darkness, again.

#auspol #Election eve really really sucks #Australia votes #Australian election 2022 #australian politics #scott morrison

[commonpeople2359]

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[dialogue-queered]

D-Q Comment:

Going into Australia’s May 2022 national elections, the right’s Liberal National Coalition seemed like a government that had no credible agenda for the future.

It had stalled on badly on climate change and even private business was ahead of it.

Pandemic management was ‘spotty’ and the government could not help itself to run a neo-liberal, pro-business line even when the state governments (in Australia’s federal system) enjoyed decisive community support for strong lockdown and other measures successfully minimising deaths to around 2500 in 2020 and 2021.

Corruption seemed significant at the national level, but the government refused to move anti-corruption watchdog legislation forward.

Old-style, semi-toxic masculinities abounded in this government amidst workplace discrimination and scandals relating to the treatment of women including in the national parliament itself.

These are some broad themes as to why (a) the Labor, centre-left opposition won a narrow two seat majority, and (b) female independents in wealthy Coalition seats rebelled on the women’s, climate change and corruption issues - and won election - the so-called blue-green ‘teals’ - gaining 10 lower house seats.

Article Text:

The eight reasons the Coalition lost the 2022 federal election may have been personified by Scott Morrison, but they were an institutional failure, according to the architect of Labor’s victory.

Labor’s national secretary, Paul Erickson, gave his account of the election win at the National Press Club on Wednesday, broadening the attack from voters’ fatigue with Morrison to the failures of the Coalition team.

Although Labor “won’t be fighting Scott Morrison” at the next election, it will “be up against some of his nastier and more incompetent enablers”, he said – a sledge directed at the current Liberal leader, Peter Dutton.

So why does Labor think it won – and will the Liberals’ problems outlast Morrison’s leadership into Dutton’s reign?

1. Lack of responsibility

The first reason for victory was “a pathological refusal to take responsibility for anything, which comes from their small government mindset”, Erickson said.

He illustrated this with numerous examples, from Morrison’s declaration he didn’t “hold a hose” to his statement to parliament that “his solution to a lack of maternal health services in Yass, which left a woman giving birth by the side of the road on the Barton Highway, was to upgrade the highway”.

2. Poor pandemic management

Erickson accused the federal government of “incompetent management of [its] responsibilities during the pandemic”.

Erickson cited the failure to do “basic due diligence” by ordering a variety of vaccines, arguing “problems with specific vaccines were inevitable”.

“This isn’t the wisdom of hindsight, Chris Bowen pointed out the urgent need to invest in a range of potential vaccines in July 2020. Liberal failure to do so was the context for Morrison saying three times in one day in March 2021 that the vaccine rollout was not a race and it wasn’t a competition. The bungled rollout wasn’t something that happened to the Coalition, it was a direct result of their dangerous complacency.”

Similarly, the Coalition failed to build quarantine facilities, resulting in “leaky hotel quarantine that led to repeated Covid outbreaks”.

3. Attacking the states

Erickson said the government engaged in “cabinet-wide partisan attacks on state and territory governments throughout Covid, which particularly alienated voters in Victoria and Western Australia”.

Erickson argued from Morrison down, the Coalition showed “hubris and mindless partisanship” in attacks against Queensland’s Annastacia Palaszczuk, the Victorian Andrews government’s roadmap out of Covid, and through its support for Clive Palmer’s challenge to the Western Australian border closure.

“No Victorian needs to be reminded of the Liberals’ subsequent attempts to undermine the public health response to the second wave in Melbourne, led by Josh Frydenberg and the lamentable Tim Smith,” he said.

4. The budget

Erickson repeated Labor attack lines about the Coalition’s “incompetent budget management”, including that it racked up “billions of dollars in wasted rorts, and nothing to show for a trillion dollars of debt”.

5. Response to the cost of living crisis

Erickson argued the Coalition response to the cost of living crisis “wasn’t just incompetent, it was incoherent”.

“The Liberals argued that Australia was already enjoying a strong recovery, but only a returned Morrison government could secure that recovery,” he said.

By then claiming “the sky would fall in” over Anthony Albanese’s support for a minimum wage rise in line with inflation it undercut “their campaign assertions about the strength of the recovery”.

6. China – and other regional issues

Erickson accused the Coalition of “incoherent engagement with our allies in our region”.

He cited an “irresponsible and immature” response to the news China would sign a security pact with Solomon Islands, with “assertions that the Chinese Communist party were backing Labor, warmongering rhetoric on Anzac Day, talk of ‘red lines’, and failed attempts to suggest Labor opposes the Aukus arrangement”.

This followed “February’s Manchurian candidate silliness”, when Morrison and then Dutton suggested Labor figures including deputy leader, Richard Marles, were helped by China.

7. Ignoring women’s experiences

Erickson accused the Coalition of “a lack of awareness or interest in women’s experiences across the economy and society”.

Erickson noted all but one of Morrison’s network featured in an Australian Financial Review story in July 2020 were men; the Morrison government ending free childcare mid-pandemic; and the Barton Highway clanger.

After the reckoning in the first quarter of 2021 on workplace bullying, sexual harassment and sexual assault in politics, two of Morrison’s gaffes continued to come up in Labor’s research, according to Erickson: first, that it wasn’t until he considered these issues as a husband and a father that he was able to reflect and listen; and second, that women who marched outside Parliament House were lucky not to be met with bullets.

8. Climate change inaction

Erickson accused the Coalition of “a decades-long failure to take climate change seriously”.

He noted that Barnaby Joyce returned to the Nationals leadership in part due to opposition to net zero emissions by 2050, adding: “In the lead-up to Cop26, the Liberals had to beg the Nationals to let them to commit to net zero. They then released a vacuous pamphlet that maintained Tony Abbott’s 2030 targets.

“I recall some reporting in late 2021 suggesting that the Liberals believed the net zero commitment would see off any threat from climate-orientated independents. And all I can say based on our work was we never saw any evidence that Morrison persuaded anyone in the community of his commitment to the climate, which is hardly surprising given the empty and desperately political nature of where he landed.

Who swung to Labor?

Erickson argued these factors combined to help Labor assemble a broad coalition, including winning full-time workers, Tafe-educated voters, renters and mortgage voters in low-income households earning less than $50,000 a year, and medium-income households between $50,000 and $100,000.

“Some of the biggest swings to Labor were recorded in outer suburban and regional electorates,” he said.

Erickson cited consolidation in Macquarie, Eden-Monaro, Dobell, Dunkley and Corangamite, gains of Robertson, Hasluck and Pearce, and in seats it “didn’t gain but will continue to campaign in and fight for like Flynn and Deakin”.

What of the future?

Erickson argued that “Scott Morrison may have come to personify these failures but they are institutional and collective, not individual”.

“They’re actively prosecuted by senior cabinet ministers and all Coalition leaders including the two men then seen as the only likely successors to Scott Morrison – Josh Frydenberg and Peter Dutton.”

Erickson also commented on the media’s performance in the election, endorsing comments by the Western Australian premier, Mark McGowan, “about some of the dynamics we saw in terms of how the media pack engaged with the opposition leader”.

He said that some behaviour was “beyond the pale” and reminded him of people’s shock and negative reactions to the way journalists spoke to political leaders during the 2020 Covid outbreaks. “I think there’s a lot there to reflect on.”

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[hydriotaphia]

GET IN THE BIN SCOTTY!!!!!!!! 

#ausvotes #australian election 2022 #GOODBYE LIBERALS #THANK YOU AUSTRALIA