Category: Post Election 2022

Post Election 2022

Labor on the brink of learning if can govern without independents

ALBO HAS HIS MAJORITY IN THE LOWER HOUSE!!!

The long wait to learn if the Albanese government has the lower house numbers to govern without the support of independents could end as early as Monday.

There was no fresh counting in the three seats that remain in doubt after the election just over a week ago, according to respected ABC election analyst Anthony Green.

“Staff will be processing declaration envelopes to be ready for a big count on Monday. That should clarify the final result – unless the three seats remain ultra-close,” he tweeted on Sunday.

Source: Labor on the brink of learning if can govern without independents

Post Election 2022

From ‘voter fraud’ to Albanese’s ‘invalid’ swearing in: election claims debunked | Australian election 2022 | The Guardian

People cast their ballots during early voting

Here are some of the key baseless claims made about the election, and how the AEC and other experts have responded.

Source: From ‘voter fraud’ to Albanese’s ‘invalid’ swearing in: election claims debunked | Australian election 2022 | The Guardian

Post Election 2022

Election: Australia’s Big Lie (from the right): Morrison went too far left

This Australian version of the Big Lie is the first stage of a war for the future of the federal Liberal Party, with the far-right unable to resist the opportunity to exploit the removal of so many more moderate MPs to drive the federal party away from climate action and towards culture wars, division and attacks on women and minorities.

At the centre of it will be the foreign political party News Corp. Despite its irrelevance to mainstream Australia being demonstrated by the election result, the Murdochs will continue to wield significant influence within a purged Coalition, and the company will seize on its status as an opposition party. From yesterday, the Murdoch campaign of regime change in Australia began — it’s just that the campaign extends to the Coalition as well as a Labor government.

This shouldn’t be treated as some sort of sideshow. When Tony Abbott defeated Malcolm Turnbull in 2009 by one vote, with the backing of News Corp, he set the stage for 13 years of climate wars and polarised, toxic politics. He was aided by Kevin Rudd’s failure to seize the moment and go to an election that would have smashed the Coalition. One mistake is all it takes and the course of political history can be very different.

The Big Lie, Australian style, is just the start.

Source: Election: Australia’s Big Lie (from the right): Morrison went too far left