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© Thomson Reuters 2018Australian by-election count goes to the wire
By Alison Bevege and Colin Packham SYDNEY©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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tooheysnew
Bring back John Howard !
Peter14
The worst PM in Australia's modern history! A big liar and a tiny little useless man.
Matt Hartwell
That's funny, considering he was the second longest serving PM in the history of the country!!! beaten by another Liberal PM, Menzies at 18 years over 2 stretches.
So clearly somebody liked him.
Have to pick him up at the nursing him mate lol. He wasn't a young man when he became PM the first time.
goldorak
Agree with Peter, although phony Tony'd give him a run for his money.
In Howard's defense, he was smart enough to pick peter Costello -who's imo the best aussie pollie of the last 2 decades- as treasurer.
Andrew Crisp
The Federal Liberal and Labor Governments have achieved nothing in their time in Parliament, true the Greens would worse. Goes to show that career politicians are worldwide problem, a 8 year term limit over a life time needs to be introduced.
Appreciate the fact that Kerryn Phelps is a left leaning politician, its interesting to note that the Labor Candidate didn't have a chance. It looks like candidates running on a Independent platform seem to be the favourites to the New South Wales voters, the Wagga Wagga by election was also won by an Independent Candidate.
Its certainly going to be a close count.
Matt Hartwell
We have had federal Labor and Liberal governments since federation in 1901.
Are you saying Australia hasn't progressed in 117 years? LOL. Nothing in all that time?
Still riding about in horse and cart? No roads, no hospitals, no infrastructure, no nothing?
You are right about one thing, the Greens would be a disaster. Income taxes would need to hit 80% to pay for everything they want.
The liberal party will retake that seat at the next election in all likelihood and now the margin is likely to be just a few hundred votes. One misstep by Phelps in her term and her seat is gone.
Its a game of musical chairs, we all know that.
veejay
Good result. The liberal party need to purge themselves of the toxic right before they can lead again. They will be wiped out at the next election which is the best chance for them to get rid of dead wood, aka Abbott. If only there were elections for the media so we could get rid of Murdoch's slavish groupies