The coming Oz election thread ...

No....I guess that will be freedom of speech for you....dammit.

Setanta

"free, secular & compulsory"
That's what was the clearly stated goal of education in this country. But, as a result of political expediency, you can see what's happened. Bit by bit the ideal was compromised & now look at the mess we're stuck with! We supporters of public education fought the changes & lost. Very demoralizing & at enormous cost to the public education sector. Now clawing back the small "reforms" Labor is proposing looks like a revolution. Very, very sad.

As Mr Howard constantly tells us, going private or public is all about choice:

Well, Miss Olga, my oracle of Ozzian politics, is there currently a reasonable estimate of the chances of the respective parties and party leaders, as of now?

Apparently it's neck & neck b/n the Coalition & Labor, setanta. Labor didn't gain any mileage from their tax policy last week, as hoped. The party to watch is the Greens. Their preferences look like they may decide who governs. They polled surprisingly well last time & look like doing so again. Watch out for some really nasty anti-Greens stuff as the election draws closer. We've already had a dose of this already.

Now I hope you're not talking to me while you're meant to be working for the man, setanta! Tut, tut!

Perish the thought, dear Kitty . . .

No slacking on the job, OK? :wink:

Uh . . . what ? ! ? ! ?


Oh, sorry . . . you woke me . . .

Oh, sorry!

What I meant to say just now, but didn't, was that the Greens' preferences could decide the election outcome. (but don't go looking, I changed it! Too embarrassed to read the mish-mash I actually wrote! Which makes me privately wonder: am I going a wee bit senile? Or should I just accept that nothing I say after midnight is going to make sense?)

I'll take this one.....

Pendulam
Here's the 'pendulam' (not pudendum) for the House of Representatives. The seats at the bottom are the ones that count. If the Coalition were to lose 8 of them, they will have to form a minority government with an independent or two. If it slips even further to the ALP then they may be able to do that themselves, too far over and the ALP wins outright.

The Senate is a different matter.

A consummation devoutly to be hoped...

Wash your mouth, Deb!

whew, people have finally stopped telling primary school students (ie me) that their school is destroying society.

I was looking at this:

" If it slips even further to the ALP then they may be able to do that themselves, too far over and the ALP wins outright."

'K, so what do you Antipodean Pundits think are the possibilities of Labor acheiveing a majority?

Dunno.

Less than I'd like....

Too bad, then . . . let's hope Miss Olga is right about the Greens, and those boys and girls see their way clear to helping Labor form a government . . .

Yes - they may be able to help us stop primary school students from destroying society...

Acutally, i'm very, very selfish . . . as long as they destroy society after i'm dead, i don't really care . . .