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spooky3

(37,512 posts)
Sat May 3, 2025, 10:36 AM May 3

Another slap to the orange face--from Australian elections


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BREAKING: Australia’s Labor party has won the federal election and is projected to form a majority government in another blow to right wing politics worldwide. Party leader Anthony Albanese will continue on for another term as Prime Minister.
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Another slap to the orange face--from Australian elections (Original Post) spooky3 May 3 OP
NICE!!! I pray the left wing parties worldwide have some type of pan to capitalize middle income otherwise the backlash uponit7771 May 3 #1
Yea!!!!! SheltieLover May 3 #2
A massive slap malaise May 3 #3
Whoo-Hoo! peggysue2 May 3 #4
Landslide malaise May 3 #5
This human thumb is an Australian Nazi. He lost the Election AND he lost his seat. LetMyPeopleVote May 3 #6
Thank you, Aussies! electric_blue68 May 3 #7
Their cricket team is heading my way ne t months I'll thank them for all of us malaise May 3 #9
Yes, please do! 👍 electric_blue68 May 3 #10
And it's all due to Trump. Kingofalldems May 3 #8
Their worst defeat ever malaise May 4 #11

uponit7771

(92,908 posts)
1. NICE!!! I pray the left wing parties worldwide have some type of pan to capitalize middle income otherwise the backlash
Sat May 3, 2025, 10:40 AM
May 3

... will just continue.

malaise

(284,581 posts)
3. A massive slap
Sat May 3, 2025, 10:59 AM
May 3
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/3/australia-election-results-2025-live-pm-albanese-faces-off-with-dutton

Labor has pledged that it intends to make it easier for young people to buy their first home. Albanese has also made a number of other promises, including a 20 percent cut to student debt.

So the focus has very much been on key domestic issues.

That perhaps makes this loss doubly embarrassing for the main opposition as they are often seen as the better economic managers,
and the fact that they lost an election that was very much fought on those issues will certainly raise some questions for them.

peggysue2

(11,881 posts)
4. Whoo-Hoo!
Sat May 3, 2025, 12:29 PM
May 3

The Agent Orange Effect strikes again. Congrats, Australia.

Another win for democracy.

malaise

(284,581 posts)
5. Landslide
Sat May 3, 2025, 01:16 PM
May 3

Huge Majority

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2025/may/03/election-results-2025-live-tracker-australian-federal-poll-who-won-is-winning-votes-count-seats-latest

Labour 83. - the rest 35


What. A. Night. I don’t think many of us can say we saw that result coming.

That’s where we’ll leave you for tonight, thank you so much for following us on the blog.

Here’s what we learned this Saturday 3 May:

Labor has achieved an emphatic win, with strong swings for the party across all states and territories.
Labor has secured majority government, securing at least 86 seats.
Anthony Albanese was overjoyed and became emotional during his victory speech, promising to “govern for every Australian”.
Peter Dutton has lost his seat of Dickson to the Labor challenger, Ali France.
Dutton apologised for the result, conceding “it is not our night”, as Liberal party faithful say there will need to be a hard look at what went wrong for the LNP, which recorded a historic loss.
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Thanks Slobby Donvict, Musk et al 😂😂😂


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