Australians immune to Murdoch think past sloganeering and read policy lost. It shows the power of negative media fake scare mongering does win elections even when its simply sold as a choice between Bill and Me. Education matters and civics is badly missed in our schools. We need governments that work for Australia not firestarters that burn for it and their pockets. (ODT)

 The left made up ground in Melbourne’s traditional Liberal-leaning south-east, while losing support in the western suburbs.

In the seat of Melbourne, the Greens’ Adam Bandt now holds the electorate he first won from Labor in 2010 with a margin of 23.3 per cent.

Election results 2019: The left-right identity fault line cracks through the quinoa curtain