Politics & Government 2025 Election

[Ivelisse]

Voting Greens being left wing https://greens.org.au/

The 2022 election was only the second out of ten going back to 1996 at which Labor won a parliamentary majority, and the result carried with it indications of the party's ongoing decline. A national primary vote of 32.6% was the lowest in the party's modern history, failing to match the 33.4% and 33.3% it recorded as part of seemingly disastrous results in 2013 and 2019, to say nothing of its past historic lows of 40.0% in 1966, 39.6% in 1977 and 38.8% in 1996. The saving grace for Labor was that the Coalition's 35.7% was likewise an historic low, reflecting an ongoing evaporation of the party loyalties that shaped voting behaviour for most of the twentieth century.

The Poll Bludger: Federal Election 2025

Seat-by-seat guide to the 2025 federal election

www.pollbludger.net

Prediction: Decline of Labor and Coalition primary vote continues (a lot of older people die over 3 years), number of safe seats goes down with it.

A majority government needs 76 of the 150 House of Representatives seats

"What is a 'Teal independent'? " these people https://www.climate200.com.au/candidates I won't vote for them

 

[raskolnikov]

Where's the "Trumpet of Patriots" option?

 

[Ivelisse]

Where's the "Trumpet of Patriots" option?

Listed parties that have a seat and are running this election. There's "Other" option at the bottom.

 

[nobbyiscool]

Why is Wilkie listed among "teal independents" when he predates them by about 12 years, and when a bunch of other independents got their own option?

Including Rebekah Sharkie as "a teal" is even more bizarre.

 

[Xtreme]

LNP BY THE LENGTH OF THE FLEMINGTON STRAIGHT

 

[nobbyiscool]

Peter Dutton plans to cut 41,000 jobs which sounds like a way to make sure nothing government does works

It's their modus operandi. Defund it til it fails, so you can justify privatising it.

It's why they can't simultaneous claim that they'll support Medicare while also saying they'll cut public servants from Human Services & Health - they are Medicare. As successful as Mediscare was in 2016, Labor has never properly explained why the LNP is an ever-present existential threat to Medicare. They should've massaged the messaging by now to the point that people automatically equate public sector cuts as being a threat to Medicare - that's effective marketing, which I don't think the ALP has done since Kevin 07.

Which feels strangely contradictory - cos while I think the ALP can and should have more respect for the electorate when it comes to health funding and Medicare? I think the opposite is true when it comes to nuclear energy. Dumb, context-less pictures of Chernobyl and Fukuoka will still work when it comes to nuclear energy if you want to dumb it down that much. That's what Kevin 07 was, was a stupid, dumbed down jingle.

And as tragic as is it is? People shouldn't have too much respect for the electorate. There's an age demographic for whom their primary mental image of nuclear energy is Chernobyl... There's my age demographic for whom their primary mental image is of Homer Simpson saving the Springfield Nuclear Plant from meltodwn.

I'm always critical of ALP comms, they never get it right, and I think I could do much, much better. On some issues, like Medicare and public sector funding, you have to continue to develop your messaging. On nuclear? You really don't.

 

[revo333]

Not that it matters but It will be the first time I'm not voting for one of the 2 major parties.

 

[MisterB]

Peter Dutton plans to cut 41,000 jobs which sounds like a way to make sure nothing government does works

And when nothing government works, Dutton will have to hire back contractors or consultants. False economy

 

[Forward Press]

Not that it matters but It will be the first time I'm not voting for one of the 2 major parties.

Done it ever since I was eligible to vote.

But with the preferential system, I have always ranked the ALP above the Liberal Party.

 

[the_interloper]

7:30pm AEST tonight Albanese and Dutton will be on Sky News for a "People's Forum" (whatever the **** that is)

I didn't know about this, I'm not sure it would have been worth watching though.

 

[Scotland]

Albanese vs Dutton
Morrison vs Albanese
Morrison vs Shorten

A trilogy worse than Star Wars sequels.

 

[Gralin]

i get to vote early because I'm working on election day

pretty much the only benefit of working that day