Like labours proposed royal commission into the finance industry
Prefer their position regards education Medicare and infrastructure
Don't like labours presumption re gay marriage
Don't like the coalitions do nothing minimalism
Don't like the coalitions hardline to refugees
Despise both of their USA puppet foreign policy
Infact their both useless incompetents
Might just draw a dick fish on my ballot paper

//Infact their both useless incompetents
Might just draw a dick fish on my ballot paper//

You could always vote for a minor party instead of the majors. If enough people do it we won't have to put up with Liberal or Labor.

The majors will still be the government. Rightly so because there needs to be broadly set, comprehensive policy not narrow sectional interests.

Choose the wrong'un minor party, which is the treacherous headline-hunting, totalitarian Greens and the Parliament becomes unworkable.

A damned pity that the Greens swung to red'n'pink social engineering years ago. But there is no going back from that. It always was flakey, attracting serial protesters who get their jollies from their 'power' of confrontation and disruption. -Reversed authoritarianism, nothing constructive or good.

Richard di Natale has to take control, set a new direction. He is confronted by factions who prefer the power of protest and disruption though. Which is to be expected in a protest party.

In view of the Election Result (more Hung than an Elephant on Viagra) it would be interesting to dissect:

- what predictions Graham made in the article,

- how accurately his polling numbers reflected the actual voting trends/results counted last night

Pete

All overtaken by the underestimated effects of a negative campaign I'd say.

A statesman might have walked it in, but would their colleagues have let him/her?

The campaign saw politicians and the media at their worst. Or is that worst now the usual to be expected?

The LNP really needs to spruce up some REAL civics education in schools. The problems go back to that. A bit of logic and philosophy wouldn't go astray either.

It is not good enough to oppose leftist skews in education, the LNP has to provide the reasonable alternative.

The LNP has never had the awareness of their opponents that young people vote soon and often.

Hi onthebeach

Yes I don't think Turnbull message was at all fresh and convincing. Rather he was as tentative, negative and unconvincing as the tax NON-policies that he attempted and failed to fly since the beginning of 2016.

Turnbull tried and failed in his strategy of a long election campaign that would expunge this tax NON-policy record.

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Looking at Graham's predictions for the House of Reps results (so far). It being too early to analyse Senate results.

The most accurate portion of Graham's analysis seems to be.

"There are not enough first and second preference votes between [Labor] and the Greens to quite make up 50% +1 of the electorate. Like Turnbull [Labor] also need non-Greens minor party votes.

...So it is unsure who will win in the House of Representatives,...

The LNP's failure to keep seats in the House also supports Graham's prediction, that:

"It is possible that, after having gone to all the trouble of having a double-dissolution to be able to pass two bills establishing an Australian Building and Construction Commission, a joint sitting will not provide the numbers that a Turnbull government needs to get them through."