Hi Joe,

When Gladys Berejiklian took over from Mike Baird, I thought here's a go for Labor, the Liberals have put in an "air head" a conservative version of Kristina Keneally, considering Gladys track record as a minister was not all that good. Well I was wrong, she's been more than a match for Labor. What can Labor do, give Mick the flick, and find a woman of substance to fight fire with fire.

Belly, in MD's seat of Maroubra Mick suffered a personal swing of 10% with it all going to the Independent Noel D'Souza who picked up 14% of the vote as expected. If Noel had directed preferences to the Liberal, things would have been interesting.
Bad luck for the Liberal I like, Bruce Notley-Smith in Coogee, looks like Bruce is the liberal sacrificial lamb, back to the cleaning Bruce.

Shock, I say the Shooters and Hooters done badly, when everyone saying the opposite. Given they were taking on a punch drunk opponent in the toxic Nationals, and had a million dead fish on their side in a seat like Barwon, a 30% vote is not that great. But getting into parliament is always an advantage next time around, if you do the right thing, see the result in Orange the Shooter picked up 50% primary, must have ingratiated himself well with the voters since his by-election win.

The Greens did well, holding their 3 seats without much trouble, considering the kerfuffle with division they have been having in NSW.

Paul,

The SF&Fs did really well, much better than the Greens, as was to be expected.

In fact, no one else did as well as the SF&Fs.

Paul,

According to the ABC, there was a swing of 3.2 % to the SFF and a swing of 1 % against the Greens. So the Greens lost nearly 10 % of their previous support.

Joe

The Greens will continue losing votes and their grip on reality if they hang on to the fascist lunatic di Natale, screaming hate against anyone not him, which would be would be every other Australian, including ordinary Greens, who don't go around giving Mussolini impressions as di Natale does.

Nasty swipes will not change the truth, not that truth is welcome for some
Not a fan of the greens, NSW highlights why, they overcame a very big hill in front of them
Fact is doubt voters even understood the internal war
Held their seats, faceing a gale force wind, and almost won one more
Being ALP solidarity is my word to work with
So solidarity with our leaders,keep your hands off my sugar bag, yes I know it is moving
And yes it is telling us it is our leader
Sugar bags lie
Solidarity forever
Or at least till after the federal election and not a day more

Firstly the total failure of ttbn's AUSTRALIAN CONSERVATIVES, ran 11 candidates in what would be perceived as their best seats To maximise their vote. Well if a 2.7% average is the best you can do, laughable, Corny Banana needs replacing.

As for the GREENS, down 1% overall, given their recent infighting in NSW, less than what I would expect. What is surprising is the vote for the GREENS in winnable seats was up around 3%. Political parties target winnable seats, LABOR had a fair list of government seats they targeted as winnable, since they had eyes on forming government, that's where they spent their on the ground money. On that score LABOR failed badly.

The SFF did extremely well in the one seat they held before the election, Orange, the local member should be congratulated, 50.5% personal vote, checking Bathurst and Dubbo two nearby seats, they got about 14% of the vote. The two seats they won from the sick old man the NATIONAL PARTY were based on a protest vote against the NATIONALS, so the SFF styled themselves as the alternative. The SFF were all puffed up, or cashed up, and had a shot at 24 seats. In the 21 seat they did not win, their vote was averaging 9%, and again that was in NATIONAL seats where there was often a fair swing, which SFF benefited from, without that benefit their vote would be down around 6%. The SHOOTERS AND HOOTERS need to hope for lots more dead fish come next election, or make themselves the de facto National Party.