Not Tired of Winning Yet LXXIX
Whether or not this win can be credited to Trump, the leftwing papers in Australia credit Trump’s influence or inspiration with a win for conservatives in Australia.
Like Trump in America, Brexit in England, this is a huge upset, and a sign of the times. The Leftwing totalitarian global Pseudocracy (rule by professional liars) is crumbling.
Conservative Prime Minister Scott Morrison in Australia gained seats in an election pollsters announced he would most certainly lose. At least one bookmaker started paying out money to those who had voted against Morrison before all the votes were counted, because of that certainty.
But Mr. Morrison won, and won big.
The coalition was returned to power in a stunning result on Saturday night, after opinion polls and odds-makers had tipped the opposition Labor Party to win.
The outcome ranks as Australia’s biggest election upset since 1993, when Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating was returned to power.
With 76 seats in the House of Representatives needed for majority rule, figures from the Australian Electoral Commission on Monday showed 84% of the votes had been counted, with the coalition on target to win 77 seats — an increase of four after going into the election as a minority government.
The Labor Party was set to claim 68 seats, with independents and minor parties taking six.
Winning at least 77 seats would also allow Morrison’s coalition to appoint the house speaker from its own ranks, rather from among independent or minor party lawmakers.
The newspapers all trumpeted this as a referendum on Global Warming. Like everything the Left says, this was make believe. What the election really was a referendum on, was whether or not the Labor party in Australia can turn its back on its traditional base of blue collar workers, farmhands, factoryhands, miners, construction workers, but pick up votes by pursuing far left wingnut cultists like the Greens.
So Labor, in effect, promised to shut down mines in Queensland, hike up taxes, and drive jobs away, and the average no-nonsense Australian “Little Boy from Manly” workingman told Labor to get bent.
This is from “Climate Change News” the kind of crooked, shameless people who use a phrase like “climate denier” without a blush. So if a slanted source reports a fact against their own self interest, this is a sign of reliability. The Coalition mentioned is the Conservative coalition, that is, the ruling party that retained seats in the election:
It took Tony Abbott, the architect of a decade of climate agony for Australian progressives, to boil a catastrophic defeat for Labor down to a trademark slogan.
“Where climate change is a moral issue,” the former prime minister and Liberal MP said on Saturday night, “we do it tough. But where climate change is an economic issue, as the result tonight shows, we do it very, very well.”
Abbott was, in fact, giving a concession speech. He’d just been thrashed by an independent who made his climate denial the defining issue for voters in the affluent Sydney seat he’d held for 25 years.
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Labor, led by former union boss Bill Shorten, had come to the election promising to end Australia’s ‘climate wars’ with energy reforms that would foster the growth of renewable energy over the country’s traditionally powerful coal industry. It was, Shorten said, time to end a decade of inaction as Australia recovered from its hottest ever summer.
Shorten had been heavily favoured, with betting companies even paying out on a Labor victory in the week before. Instead, the governing coalition of Liberal and National parties was returned to power, aided by a resounding victory in coal country.
In the central Queensland seats of Dawson, Capricornia and Herbert, the swing to the Coalition was 11.3%, 10.7% and 7.6%. Herbert was one of two seats Labor lost in a state where they had to make gains to win government.
In this arid corner of the north east, Indian company Adani plans to dig a massive and controversial new coal mine. The Coalition has backed the project, which still faces state regulatory hurdles, as a job bonanza for central Queensland. Resources minister Matt Canavan’s response to the government’s re-election was a two word tweet: “START ADANI”.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
