Why did labor lose ?

[Valkie]

Another abusing leftist commentator

What a brilliantly gracious loser

Must be gay

[brian ross]

Brian - you are delusional.

Conservatives have never changed - its only the insane leftist who has pushed further and further to the left with one idiotic idea after another.

Conservatives haven't changed and/or asked anyone else to change.

The left on the other hand are non stop pushing "their" agendas down everyones throats from Global Warming, shutting down coal fired power stations and mines, homo marriage to Trannys you name it. Pushing sick radical sexual perversion into school children classrooms and into their toilets.

It never stops and you leftwing nutcases will never stop pushing.

Just **** off and leave everyone alone.

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BTW - Climate Changes - it always has and always will.

Dur. Thats what Climate does

You may believe what ever delusion you desire, Serial. I believe Australians believe in fairness in their society. The Tories do not represent that, in the slightest. They invariably trash the workers and they invariably trash the environment. We have seen numerous dodgy deals from them - be it buying back water, funding strange Barrier Reef organisations and so on. We get the government we deserve is an old saying. Australia will wake up to this and the future dodgy deals and will realise what a mistake they have made. Then we will see an ALP Government elected and the people will be happier and more prosperous.

You may have always been a Tory. I have been more or less always just to the left of centre. We shall never agree. Let us just leave it at that, OK?

[IQS.RLOW]

...just to the left of centre.

Speaking of delusional... Is it the embarrassment, ignorance or a combination that makes you blind to where your ideology actually resides?

[sprintcyclist]

Shorten snatched defeat from the jaws of Victory

[sprintcyclist]

Queensland king prawns, salted caramel espresso martinis, massages at their desk - the Labor high command were in a mood for celebrating on election eve.

Twenty-four hours later they would be crushed by a stunning loss to an opponent that had spent the final day racing through three electorates and two states in a last minute sprint to snatch victory from an almost certain defeat.

The blame-game inside Labor is now in full swing, with many pointing squarely at its national HQ in Sydney's Parramatta.

On Friday, they booked out one of the area's most expensive restaurants, Sahra by the River, and followed up the prawns, barramundi and kafta with "kick-ons" at cocktail bar Alex & Co, according to internal messages seen by The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

A staff member was hired to play the trumpet. They sang Solidarity Forever.

While Labor dined, Prime Minister Scott Morrison jetted across the Bass Strait to Tasmania, after visiting the top of northern Queensland and southern NSW that day. Bill Shorten stayed in Melbourne, paying respect to former prime minister Bob Hawke with beers at the John Curtin Hotel.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison - in Tasmania on Saturday - campaigned right up until the end.


"We were drowning in hubris," one Labor source said.

Labor HQ was stocked with free beers from Carlton and United Breweries. They had a lottery to win massages at their desk on Fridays.

The atmosphere inside a dry Coalition headquarters was more sparse, many were resigned to an honourable defeat, their CVs updated for a life after politics. Parliament's post office had been dealing with an unexpected surge in passport applications the week before the election was called - holidays had been booked, careers were scheduled to go overseas.

The Prime Minister says the Coalition's win is a miracle and a victory for the quiet Australians.

No one was expecting Saturday's result, not even Scott Morrison. He called it a "miracle" as he took the stage as Australia's re-elected prime minister at Sydney's Sofitel Wentworth at midnight.

"There was always a scenario in which [winning the election] was one in 10, and it just happened that it was the one," said Liberal MP Tim Wilson.

NSW Labor had an inkling something was not right. Its own seat-by-seat polling, separate from federal Labor's Galaxy YouGov polls, showed it did not have a chance in Banks or Page despite the national body deciding to send vital resources there.

Come Monday, former Labor pollster John Utting was forced to clarify on Twitter that "this is the first campaign, since 1996 that I have not done the federal ALP's election tracking polling. It was outsourced to Galaxy YouGov".

The same company runs Newspoll. It had Labor ahead for three years. Bill Shorten and the ALP national secretary Noah Carroll went to dinner on Friday in Melbourne and Sydney virtually certain they were going to win.

"It's the same thing that Michael Daley's team did before they lost [the NSW election], which is just the most vapid bullshit," said one staffer. "Go and stand on a polling booth."

The recriminations begin with tactics. Talking to voters in northern Queensland about electric vehicles when they are more concerned about losing their jobs did not help.


Labor also failed to neutralise what would become become a powerful Coalition weapon, the "retiree tax," label the government applied to its franking credit policy. New figures show it is likely to have cost Labor victory in areas with large older populations up the east coast and in Tasmania.

Longman, Herbert and Braddon would all fall, with Bass likely to go too. By 10pm on Saturday, so would the futures of many of those who only a day earlier had been singing Solidarity Forever.

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/federa ... 51p6z.html