The chicken ain’t squawking. The chicken is on the block. It’s drumsticks and legs.
This is two global elections in ONE WEEK where the conservative candidate trying to become prime minister not only led his party to a big loss but lost their own seat in parliament (!) in huge upsets. We are global pariahs unseen since the end of the Cold War and need stronger domestic opposition.
BBC: Australia PM Albanese makes stunning comeback with landslide win
Albanese increases majority and Dutton as well as Sukkar lose seats in stunning election landslide
Blue wall crumbles: Sukkar, Wolahan fall in Melbourne bloodbath
Deakin’s Michael Sukkar loses Deakin to Labor’s Matt Gregg
In Deakin, the Liberal’s Michael Sukkar, who was Shadow Minister for Housing among other roles and had held the seat since 2013, has lost to Labor’s Matt Gregg at his second attempt. According to the AEC Tally Room, Gregg is currently projected to receive 56.57 per cent of the two-candidate-preferred (TCP) count. The ABC has called the seat with 44.9 per cent of the vote counted and Gregg holding 56.4 per cent of the preference count. Gregg has seen a 2.1 per cent swing in his favour at his second attempt while Sukkar suffered a fatal 4.6 per cent swing against.
The Greens candidate Amy Mills is currently in third with 12.9 per cent (1.3 per cent against) and independent Jess Ness gained 8.2 per cent of the vote at the first time of asking. One Nation’s Anne Cooke (2.3 per cent), Family First Richard Griffith-Jones (1.8 per cent), Libertarian Will Vandermeer (1.5 per cent) and Trumpet of Patriots Milton Wilde (1.4 per cent) round out the Deakin vote count.
Liberals left reeling as Victoria delivers knockout blow
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The U.S. president and his policies have loomed large in elections in Australia, Canada, Germany, Greenland and elsewhere
It’s a slaughter. Albanese threw off the frightened rabbit disguise and revealed he was a terminator
Labor clinches 'win for the ages' as Dutton loses his seat
Election rout sends Coalition backwards in Victoria
The Coalition’s hoped-for path to victory through the outer suburbs of Melbourne has failed to materialise, and instead, senior Liberal figures Michael Sukkar and Keith Wolahan are expected to lose their seats after a rout across Victoria.
Ousted Opposition Leader Peter Dutton repeatedly visited a series of Melbourne seats during the campaign, with Liberal strategists repeatedly talking up the prospects of flipping up to half a dozen seats across the city’s north-west and south-east.
The Liberals had hoped that the growing unpopularity of Labor Premier Jacinta Allan and the cost of living crisis could flip Labor-held seats such as Aston, Gorton, McEwen, Hawke, Bruce, Holt, Chisholm and Dunkley.
Not only did the Coalition fail to capture any of those seats but Sukkar, in Deakin in the city’s east and Wolahan, in Menzies, also in the east, are on track to lose their seats. Should that occur, the Liberals will be left with five MPs across the state’s 38 seats. Early projections show a 2.8 percentage point swing towards Labor across the state.
“It is a huge wake-up call for the Liberal Party in all the states,” said pollster and former Labor strategist Kos Samaras said.
“I still keep on coming back to the Victorian results, where the preconditions were there for a very significant swing to the Coalition, an unpopular state government and yet, it appears that they are going backwards – the Liberal Party is going backwards.”
Andy Schmulow: Why this PwC and big bank agitator is running for the Senate
