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The Australian General Election 2013
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Sitting Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has fired the starting pistol for the 2013 Australian general election which will be held on 7 September this year.
The opposition leader is Tony Abbott and he represents the Coalition comprising the Liberal party (= UK's Conservatives) and the National party (= rural Conservatives in certain Australian states)*.
Labor has started off with $650 million AUD spending announcements for various projects but they still lag behind the Coalition in terms of poll rating by 4% - Coalition 52%, Labor 48%. However, in terms of the popularity of the leaders as defined by who would make the best prime minister, Kevin Rudd comes in at 47% as compared with Tony Abbott's 33%.
The Coalition's lead has been consistent is recent weeks and that should be enough to secure a majority in the House of Representatives (= House of Commons).
Links:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/federal-election-2013/
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-05/coalition-maintains-lead-over-labor-in-latest-poll/4864348
*The nearest European analogy I can think of is the CDU/CSU (Bavaria) situation in Germany.
The opposition leader is Tony Abbott and he represents the Coalition comprising the Liberal party (= UK's Conservatives) and the National party (= rural Conservatives in certain Australian states)*.
Labor has started off with $650 million AUD spending announcements for various projects but they still lag behind the Coalition in terms of poll rating by 4% - Coalition 52%, Labor 48%. However, in terms of the popularity of the leaders as defined by who would make the best prime minister, Kevin Rudd comes in at 47% as compared with Tony Abbott's 33%.
The Coalition's lead has been consistent is recent weeks and that should be enough to secure a majority in the House of Representatives (= House of Commons).
Links:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/federal-election-2013/
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-05/coalition-maintains-lead-over-labor-in-latest-poll/4864348
*The nearest European analogy I can think of is the CDU/CSU (Bavaria) situation in Germany.
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The ALP is being swept from power with a swing against it of around 4.5 per cent, although Kevin Rudd and other senior figures will keep their seats and the voter rebellion in Western Sydney appears to not be as bad as the party had feared. In one of the shocks of the night, Clive Palmer is on course to be returned as MP for the Sunshine Coast seat of Fairfax after his party grabbed 12 per cent of the vote in Queensland. And while the Coalition will have a huge majority in the House of Representatives, the battle for the Senate remains up in the air.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/
The practical consequences of this win is an axing of their carbon tax, more pro-business policies and a firmer line on asylum seekers and immigration.
Can we have that Government here as well then please.
Tony Abbott is perhaps better compared with Nigel Farage than David Cameron so the answer to your question is no, not while Cameron is PM.
Sounds like a fair summary
Rupert Murdoch has spent his entire life denouncing anything that is intended for the public good, all with the purpose of implementing his own imperialist policies to subjugate the world.
What f**king fools we are to allow it!
Did you post that tweet because you approve of it or disapprove of it?
Even worse than voting in a clown is voting in someone who intended to become a priest at one point. Nothing good can come from letting people like that have some power.
People in glass houses ought not to throw stones as the saying goes because the public is also sick of bent and corrupt media moguls whose companies hack into the mobile phones of victims of crime and terrorism.
Well, Mandark, he does come across as opinionated and populist (however, he's got a good academic record and so Boris is a better comparison in terms of intelligence rather than George W Bush :eek:
Secondly, Tony Abbott's own family comprises a wife and three daughters and a gay sister so there'll be influence and pressure to be less reactionary from that direction too.
Being half Aussie i think this comment sums it up pretty nicely. People were also throwing around the tagline for Alien vs Predator: Whoever Wins... We Lose.
Yep, and it's going to be true here in the UK next year and was true in the last US election. It's definitely not a problem restricted to any particular country.
Apt title bogpaper
Great news! I do admire the Australian asylum system. Do a deal with another country and divert all your asylum seekers there. Now Abbott will use the navy to intercept boats and buy boats from Indonesian fishermen to prevent them falling in to the hands of traffickers.
Tony Abbott makes Nigel Farage seem like Caroline lucas the Green MP
If only we could leave the EU and be free to fully determine our own laws and policies and who can come and live here and claim entitlements like the Aussies.
The future is Asia for us not the bankrupt states of the EU. Poland has just confiscated half the country's private pension plans so it can put them on its balance sheet to offset is debt problems. This is after Cyprus has stolen people's savings except for the elite who got advance warning. Our government does it by the back door via quantitative easing and inflation.
Confiscating savings and pensions but no protection under human rights laws at all? What next?
Rudd is so "intellectually superior" that he still believes in taxes on CO2.:D
Like Cameron, Osborne and almost every politician in the world.
They probably will regret it.
Abbott sounds like a right character though... former boxer and everything