We now have as much in the way of results out of the federal election as we’re ever going to, with the Australian Electoral Commission finally publishing preference flow by party data. The table below offers a summary and how it compares with the last two election. They confirm that YouGov Galaxy/Newspoll was actually too conservative in giving the Coalition 60% of preferences from One Nation and the United Australia Party, with the actual flow for both parties being nearly identical at just over 65%.
The United Australia Party preference flow to the Coalition was very substantially stronger than the 53.7% recorded by the Palmer United Party in 2013, despite its how-to-vote cards directing preferences to the Coalition on both occasions. A result is also listed for Palmer United in 2016, but it is important to read these numbers in conjunction with the column recording the relevant party’s vote share at the election, which in this case was next to zero (it only contested one lower house seat, and barely registered there). Greens preferences did nothing out of the ordinary, being slightly stronger to Labor than in 2016 and slightly weaker than in 2013.
The combined “others” flow to the Coalition rose from 50.8% to 53.6%, largely reflecting the much smaller footprint of the Nick Xenophon Team/Centre Alliance, whose preferences in 2016 split 60-40 to Labor. This also contributes to the smaller share for “others”, with both figures being closer to where they were in 2013. “Inter-Coalition” refers to where there were both Liberal and Nationals candidates in a seat, some of whose preferences will have flowed to Labor rather than each other. The “share” result in this case records the combined Coalition vote in such seats as a share of the national formal vote.
While we’re here, note the blog’s other two recent posts: Adrian Beaumont’s account of Brecon & Radnorshire by-election, and my own in-depth review of the legal challenges against the election of Josh Frydenberg in Kooyong and Gladys Liu in Chisholm.
At last! A constructive suggestion from a Bludger for our wombat plague problem.
Z
I know of one house that subsided in one corner because of wombats burrowing under the house.
The inner urban latte sipping Greens make sure there are no wombats where they live!
FDOTM – Governments don’t fix homelessness because THEY DON’T WANT TO
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/05/governments-dont-fix-homelessness-because-they-dont-want-to
4th – 10th August is Homelessness Week with a theme “Housing Ends Homelessness’’.
https://www.homelessnessaustralia.org.au/campaigns/homelessness-week-2019
BW,
Looks like you’re outnumbered!
https://www.change.org/p/daniel-andrews-stop-the-slaughter-of-wombats-in-victoria?recruiter=489306518&utm_campaign=signature_receipt&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=share_petition
Boer
Someone asked my husband the other day whether he’d worried about wombats when he built our house – he said that’s why he built all the walls with concrete bases up to 30 cm and the walls themselves are 60 cm thick….
GG
Does every one who signs that petition get a free wombat to take home?
Z
LOL
How cute..
https://mobile.twitter.com/MitchDayUK/status/1157371414682439680/photo/1
In Victoria
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jun/03/victoria-criticised-for-2bn-prison-spend-while-neglecting-social-housing
A wombat ate one of our wedding presents. True story.
Boerwar @ #907 Monday, August 5th, 2019 – 6:19 pm
If you had a wet nose, doe eyes and a soft furry face they might prefer to take you home instead!
If every Greens voter made the empty bedrooms in their houses available to homeless people there would be no homelessness in Australia and one less item for the Greens to angst about.
Win Win.
GG
Charismatic mega-vertebrates have got the game stitched up.
Wombat for PM!
Boerwar says:
Monday, August 5, 2019 at 6:28 pm
Nah, not going to happen.
That would constitute an effective policy. 🙂
Mungo MacCallum is angry re Crown and corruption
https://www.johnmenadue.com/mungo-maccallum-gambling-stench-hits-nostrils/
Boerwar @ #912 Monday, August 5th, 2019 – 6:28 pm
Make it so that everyone with spare bedrooms has to submit them to a national registry regardless of political affiliation and then run an annual lottery to randomly assign homeless people to bedrooms until there are no more homeless people, and I’d vote for it. Also each homeless person should come with a government stipend to cover their food, utility usage, etc.. 🙂
Spr
That was needlessly provocative.
Boerwar @ #20900 Monday, August 5th, 2019 – 6:30 pm
Never!
ar
The Greens are busy telling every one else that the are responsible for the homelessness problem AND telling everyone else to stop jailing murderers etc and telling everyone else to spend more of their own money when the Greens could take some personal responsibility and fix the problem just like that.
Can’t be worse than Morrison.
zoomster @ #870 Monday, August 5th, 2019 – 4:53 pm
I know, right!?! 😆
a r @ #917 Monday, August 5th, 2019 – 4:34 pm
Nope. House them in all the negatively geared properties that are empty.
I think that Barnaby was the closest we’ll ever get to a wombat as PM.
His only activity was that he eats roots and leaves.
Dan Gulberry @ #923 Monday, August 5th, 2019 – 6:43 pm
Using the cash being lost on the stock market.
Goodnight all youse nature lovers.
The Greens could run a national homeless BnB scheme.
The could call it something like:
We’ve got you Pegged!
OR
Chez Rex!
OR
Dinna with Dinna!
Puffy, if you’re about:
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PuffyTMD says:
Sunday, July 28, 2019 at 3:34 pm
I have to tell you the sad news that my Mum, Meoldema, died in hospital in her sleep last night.
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Haven’t logged in for ages, been too depressed since the election.
Condolences to you, and your family. You’ve looked after your mum for such a long time, you must be feeling lost and free at the same time. I’m sure she cherished your care.
Look after yourself, kiddo.
Much love to you.
Nice, kezza.
Good night KJ
The McKim Motel
Welcome to the Hotel Di Natalie……….
Hi kezza
We’re all trying to keep our spirits up here. 🙁
The Siewart Stayover
The Rice Rest Home
The Hanson Young Hacienda
The Whish Wilson Waterbed..
Housing crisis has a dent with these civic minded Senators opening up their homes
The Bandt Bedroom
Greensborough Growler @ #20918 Monday, August 5th, 2019 – 6:53 pm
…you can check any time you like, but you can never leave…
Barney in Makassar @ #896 Monday, August 5th, 2019 – 5:53 pm
Agreed. Worthless by design. It’s transparently simple. Facebook doesn’t post fake news, people post fake news. The bit that is ignored is that it’s people *with* Facebook that post fake news. (…and people *with* guns … etc.)
RDN’s place would come with childcare, courtesy of the live in nanny.
Here’s a POV that confirms the idiocy of Greens activities.
https://www.afr.com/policy/energy-and-climate/greens-share-blame-for-climate-shambles-with-the-hard-right-20190801-p52cta
Since I live on my own and have a spare room where my mother used to live, I often feel guilty about the homeless, but there are many reasons why I shouldn’t offer a space, among them the distance I live from the city. I compensate by donating as many material goods as I can to opp shops.
Hotel Di Natalie..
We haven’t had that spirit here since 1969..
Barney in Makassar @ #915 Monday, August 5th, 2019 – 4:31 pm
From memory some of them did offer to put up asylum seekers free of charge.
Of course, if someone else, aka a Laborite, had posted those links about homelessness, the juvenile trivialisation of some of the most vulnerable human beings in our relatively wealthy society, would not occur.
Way to go guys.
Lyle Shelton is taking a “moral stance” about voluntary euthanasia, saying that it is all the fault of lack of funds for adequate palliative care. He has no empathy or understanding and is just an attention-seeking waste of space. IMO.
Now Peg is playing the Guilt Card!
Hi BK and Lizzie
Hope you’re keeping well.
I see there’s another couple of mentally ill white guys in the US.
Isn’t it passing strange that mass murderers, if they’re white and Christian, are somehow deranged, yet a mass murderer of another colour/religion is a terrorist.
Confessions @ #942 Monday, August 5th, 2019 – 7:01 pm
To truthful, the AS have been punished enough.
Pegasus says:
Monday, August 5, 2019 at 7:02 pm
Couldn’t you find anymore out of contaxt quotes from KB’s article to further misrepresent what he was saying?
lizzie
You can have massive tax cuts or adequate funding for palliative care. But you can’t have both.
Boerwar @ #945 Monday, August 5th, 2019 – 7:05 pm
That thin whiny sound you hear is the tiniest violin in the world and it’s playing just for Peg.