Kudos to whoever at the AEC drew up this seat. They hit the demographics perfectly for a balanced slice of the populace. This was a super close one, hopefully it stays as a swing seat. Trish Cook has just claimed victory of it, but she's only ahead by 634 votes with 81.9% counted. She isn't really a certainty, though is probable winner.
I'm a little sad that Mia Davies didn't get a better showing. I suppose the voters of the Hills of Perth see themselves more a part of suburbia than a rural seat. Mia was leader of the State Opposition after the 2022 election when the State National Party actually got more seats than the Liberals and were the senior coalition partner for a term. Mia stepped down over the National Party's decision to side with the Liberal on the question of the Voice to Parliament. She vocally supported the Voice and did not agree with the party's stance. She may have actually done better as an Independent candidate, her profile is more than large enough to get consideration in her own right.
If she ran as an independent in my seat, I'd seriously consider her. She's got experience, credibility and integrity. She's historically been a too conservative for my tastes, but I don't know how much of that is her and how much is her party.
I saw the ONP vote - Sadly, it was upwards of 15% in some seats. If they head right, they'll be getting some of that action.
Personally, I think most of the population is to be found in the other direction. It might take them another decade or so to admit they're wrong. Or perhaps a new political movement will pop up in that time and supplant them? Who can say? I doubt however a strong move to the right will lead them to government.
Gotta be fair to this chap. That ABC presenter was drilling him for who would be the next leader, while the poor dude was still in shock that his party lost the election with him sitting there live in front of the whole nation. He's not come to terms with the loss, let alone his leader's ousting.
And they're trying to get the poor dude to speculate on leadership. Poor bloke didn't even know who among his party was even surviving the wipe-out.
Not too fair though: He also called himself "a Regan republican; a Bush Republican" the same night.
Not sure who the other Liberal dude they had on that night was, but he was spitting some hard facts. I liked him.
You'd have a bit more credibility on this topic Baz if you weren't trying to push a woman out of the job you eventually took from her before you were even elected. I get it, Mrs Mettam doesn't have your charisma, but charisma (or its lack) is not the reason your party is practically irrelevant. Your party is practically irrelevant because it hasn't offered anything to anyone under 60 for too long. And now the boomers are starting to die out.
'Rich people and old people' will only carry you so as a base when you have enough of them. Most voters no longer fall into the demographic you guys have cultivated for decades.
"In Danger" means "Seat in doubt". Nobody knows, it's all speculation.
Antony Green even this afternoon still thinks Adam is in there with a shot. Although he's gone from "I think he'll retain it" even as recently as yesterday to "Too close to call" this afternoon.
It's been a fascinating seat to watch though. This is all because Melbourne's electoral lines were redrawn in October:
They took away Fitzroy North and Clifton Hill and gave him South Yarra and part of Prahan instead. This has done fairly predictable things to his votes.
Antony Green said on Saturday night that he believed Mr Bandt would end up retaining Melbourne.
Antony Green said 2 hours ago that he believed Mr Bandt would end up retaining Melbourne.
Greens leader Adam Bandt looks like he's in a good position to be re-elected in the seat he's held since 2010. Postal votes had been breaking strongly to Labor, with Bandt getting just 23 per cent of preferences from them. For victory, he needs that number to be above a third. The good news for him is that all four of the polling places counted today have beaten that target. Based on current preference flows, Bandt trails his Labor opponent, but if today's counting trend continues, Bandt should be re-elected. At this stage, no early voting centres have been recounted.
For reals though: you wouldn't want to be the community group that gets a Bunnings slot on an election date. It would decimate your sales as everyone already had their sausage. People buying a second at Bunnings would not be the norm.
Lean, mean and green. The original plaster thing has been replaced by a modern plastic thing that has been literally molded to my arm. It is so much nicer than plaster. That said, I'll have it until mid-June.
Here's how you measure whether the card really has that much value:
Victim claims on insurance for card.
Insurance pays out $8,000.
What does the victim now do? If he doesn't replace his card, but instead buys himself a nice overseas holiday or a second hand car it similar, we know the card isn't really worth $8,000.
Personally, I'd be surprised if he spent the $8,000 on a replacement card.
As a suburban footy game, it's likely pretty separated from school. They also don't really get too embarrassed at that age.
I'd be super embarrassed as a parent though. Imagine caring that much over your six year old's footy game. At that age, they literally hand kids the ball in front of the goal and tell them to have a kick. There's no score, there's no stakes. Girls and boys play together and it's all very cute. Watching the mass of kids running around after the ball is like what 30 cats chasing a laser pointer looks like. All chase and no real idea of what to do if you actually catch it.
Ran into Pauline Hanson this morning. She's aged, which I suppose stands to reason. I just hadn't considered that she's 70, now. She's clearly dying her hair bright red these days. I hope she does that for herself and not from some unspoken need to fit a certain look for women in politics. Men are allowed to age and go grey. Parliament is not Hollywood.
Yep. With the generous help from the admin at lemmy.ca sharing his code, I implemented a few layers of defense that blocked the bulk of the DMs. It got to the point where the spam would just be an image (because of our spam filters). That was harder to block and I'm still not sure I managed it, but the DMs have stopped.
Does CBA not add a virtual card to the phone's wallet? I don't need to actually open my bank's app to make a purchase swiping my phone. I only need to unlock the phone (and you can configure it to make small purchases with the phone locked if you like).
It's been a good week now since I have had to deal with any people receiving DM spam. I don't want to jinx it, but we may have weathered that particular storm.
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Kudos to whoever at the AEC drew up this seat. They hit the demographics perfectly for a balanced slice of the populace. This was a super close one, hopefully it stays as a swing seat. Trish Cook has just claimed victory of it, but she's only ahead by 634 votes with 81.9% counted. She isn't really a certainty, though is probable winner.
I'm a little sad that Mia Davies didn't get a better showing. I suppose the voters of the Hills of Perth see themselves more a part of suburbia than a rural seat. Mia was leader of the State Opposition after the 2022 election when the State National Party actually got more seats than the Liberals and were the senior coalition partner for a term. Mia stepped down over the National Party's decision to side with the Liberal on the question of the Voice to Parliament. She vocally supported the Voice and did not agree with the party's stance. She may have actually done better as an Independent candidate, her profile is more than large enough to get consideration in her own right.
If she ran as an independent in my seat, I'd seriously consider her. She's got experience, credibility and integrity. She's historically been a too conservative for my tastes, but I don't know how much of that is her and how much is her party.