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Re: Federal Election 2019
« Reply #45 on: May 18, 2019, 02:09:50 pm »
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Fucking pumped for Day 1 of the Bill Shorten prime ministership yeah boi
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I also got asked if I was even old enough to vote aha. Amazing.
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Re: Federal Election 2019
« Reply #46 on: May 18, 2019, 04:01:37 pm »
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Something interesting i've noticed - there are a large number of betting markets out there on the federal election, and so hypothetically if you owned a betting agency it seems like you can 'buy' votes.

Eg. for your first $20 (or random sum) placed on the coalition (or any other party) to win you get enhanced odds if they win. If supposed party bets on the coalition, you'd think they'd probably vote for the party they bet on as there's now a short-term financial incentive to vote whoever the incentive was placed on.

I'm sure there's regulations against this, but in a lesser regulated market it seems feasible to 'buy' votes and thus heavily influence your preferred party.

Just some food for thought.


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Re: Federal Election 2019
« Reply #47 on: May 18, 2019, 07:53:06 pm »
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The greens ain't doing good

Fucking pumped for Day 1 of the Bill Shorten prime ministership yeah boi
Still feeling so confident?
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Re: Federal Election 2019
« Reply #48 on: May 18, 2019, 09:05:05 pm »
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The greens ain't doing good
Still feeling so confident?

Arguably because of communist ideologies
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Re: Federal Election 2019
« Reply #49 on: May 18, 2019, 09:09:37 pm »
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Oh blah.

Greens are doing fine, btw. Not their #1 fan but their vote has generally held up. Labor's hasn't.

There'll be a lot of commentary about how or why this happened, but there's a strong suggestion it's the 65+ and the dividend imputation changes we discussed above that killed Labor. Very sad that real reform in this country just can't happen.

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Re: Federal Election 2019
« Reply #50 on: May 18, 2019, 09:11:49 pm »
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Re: Federal Election 2019
« Reply #51 on: May 18, 2019, 09:16:50 pm »
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Re: Federal Election 2019
« Reply #52 on: May 18, 2019, 09:19:23 pm »
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Greens are doing fine, btw. Not their #1 fan but their vote has generally held up. Labor's hasn't.
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Re: Federal Election 2019
« Reply #53 on: May 18, 2019, 10:43:05 pm »
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There'll be a lot of commentary about how or why this happened, but there's a strong suggestion it's the 65+ and the dividend imputation changes we discussed above that killed Labor. Very sad that real reform in this country just can't happen.

I remember last year (?) when Labor first announced that policy and a co-worker was talking about it.  I was really surprised to hear about the current status quo, and to me Labor's policy just made sense. But it has certainly laid them open to a lot of attack.  So yes, I'm also disappointed.

At the moment it's looking like swings towards ALP in most Victorian seats, including Liberal held ones like mine - just not enough to have seats change hands. Unlike QLD and NSW.

A co-worker said to me yesterday "If the election is called Saturday night, it will have to be for Labor. It could only be Liberal if it was a very tight result". Sadly, it seems not so.  It's hard sometimes to remember that Victoria isn't representative of the rest of Australia...

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Re: Federal Election 2019
« Reply #54 on: May 18, 2019, 11:21:46 pm »
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Not in my seat
Is that Canberra? They're up 6% on their 2016 result. It was all a PR stunt, they were never a chance there.

Oh, wait. Just saw about voting interstate. Cooper or Wills then, I'm guessing? The only two seats where Greens went backwards I'm aware of.

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