Labor won with the lowest primary vote they've had for yonks! And will probably finish with a wafer thin majority? And because the coalition had swung way too far to the right! And those fools advocating they swing even further?

The coalition lost most of the moderates. Moderates who allowed the hard right to surf to victory on their coat tails. Given all elections are won in the middle!

The nats survived yet again on liberal preferences! And not on deserved merit! Or Barnaby's family values or Christian morality!?

The teals did as well as the did by appealing to the middle and the female voter, promised action on climate change, child care and health care.

If promised action on climate change does not eliminate fossil fuel dependency and transition to cleaner, cheaper, safer, carbon-free nuclear power, i.e., MSR thorium! Then the promise will be as empty as the air heads who believe we can become a super power without it in the locker!
Alan B.

I don't believe taxes will rise much under labor? Not as income or consumer tax! Their majority is wafer thin and only a heart attack away from a majority changing, byelection! Plus they don't have the numbers in the senate to carry the day if they decide to go down a higher taxing pathway!

On the other hand they will take the tax sword to tax avoiding multinationals and if successful could double internal revenue? Other than that, there is a skill shortage and a housing shortfall and that needs to be addressed ASAP!

If someone could develop a robot that lays bricks, we could build many more houses! As brickies are a dying breed who currently earn around three dollars per brick laid.

I worked for a spell as a brickies labourer during the summer hols and I can tell you it as hard as it comes and nearly as tough as breaking rocks with a sledge under the hot Australian sun!

Hardly any of today's youngsters are physically strong enough to undertake such work! And have had it too easy for too long to adapt!
Alan B.

Hey VK3AUU,
Well I guess if there's truth there, we just jumped out of the frypan and into the fire.

Hey Alan B.
I'm only going by what these bought and paid for shonks are saying themselves.
Capitalist greed through and through parading themselves as greenies.
http://tinyurl.com/een6t778
What a total sham of a world we now live in.
And you're not wrong about today's youngsters;
- Who never went outside to play, but stayed inside in front of their gaming consoles.

I cannot see why primary votes are sometimes seen as having 'grand' significance.
We have a preferential voting system to determine the best candidate.
Primary votes are only important when someone has more than half of them.
In other situations, it is the secondary and subsequent choices which count.
That is how our excellent system works.
So when a candidate wins on secondary choices, is that not just as significant as a primary vote win?
I cannot see it being otherwise.
Our system is fair, so a win is a win, and that is it!

In my opinion Peter Dutton being a Traditionalist rather than a Libertarian or a Left or Right Liberal will be much better for British Australia and also for other Australian's.

Even though Morrison (Banker Turnbull's apprentice) did a pretty decent job in dealing with a difficult situation Free Global Libertarianism isn't my thing- we need to understand the population and explain our view and hopefully if we act in good faith the Australian population will come to agree with us.

Sadly the Labor party has become more communist since the creation of the Democratic Labour Party of the 1940's under B.A. Santa Maria. It was a war between the Catholics and the Communists. The Labor party is no longer about the working people- but it's still about class warfare- of a different sort- between the Nihilist, Liberal naive useful idiot "Moderates" (in Communist parlance), and the Traditional "classes".

Sorry DLP was formed in 1955.