Australian Election 2010
9:00pm, we have the Greens winning their first House of Reps seat, overall swing to the Liberal-National Coalition, and the ABC24 panel is predicting a hung Parliament. Still waiting for WA results to come in. Kerry O'Brien repeating his ABC-I-mean-the-ALP gaffe is still funny though.
EDIT: ABC tally now on 68 ALP, 68 LNP, with 5 others (one of those being Greens outright, another one being former-Green-turned-Independent). Seriously looks like a hung Parliament!!
EDIT2: Maxine McKew on TV having lost Bennelong, the seat she won last election ousting John Howard. Talk about a complete sea-change in that seat.
EDIT3: ...Yeeeeeah, ALP is paying for knifing Rudd.
EDIT4: FAMILY FIRST SENATOR FIELDING IS OUT?? OMGPLZ LET IT BE. CONFIRMED FIELDING IS OUT!!
EDIT5: ABC tallies 69 ALP and 70 LNP. crap.
EDIT6: Big news of the night - Queensland now has the youngest politician aged TWENTY. TWENTY YEARS OLD. Also we apparently also have our first Indigenous House of Reps MP.
EDIT7: ABC tally is stuck on ALP 69, LNP 71, 1 Greens, and four Independents (one of whom is a former Greens). Five seats still in doubt. In other words, neither of the two major parties have the numbers for an outright majority to form government and will be making a lot of phone calls to the Greens and other Independents to try and get them on their side. Who is the next Prime Minister? WE HAVE NO IDEA.
EDIT8: ALP 70, LNP 72. Still no one with the 76 seats necessary to form government. Greens have picked up a lot of Senate seats.
EDIT9: Julia Gillard is speaking. Says until the outcome of the election is clearly known she is still PM and the ALP is still in power.
EDIT10: Wonder how the Governor-General fits into all this. Waiting for Abbott to come on now.
EDIT11: "You're both trying to paint the other as the nasty party, but the fact is, you all spin. You ALL spin." Kerry O'Brien = awesome. Tony Abbott is on now.
EDIT12: "The government has lost its majority. And that means, the government has lost its legitimacy." Abbott's speech is coming off very confident.
EDIT13: ABC's panel of Nick Minchin (Liberal) and Stephen Smith (ALP) have taken us out with their comments. Smith acknowledges the ALP has to do some hard thinking about whether changing their leader (ie., the Prime Minister) the way they did was a good idea or not. In any case, Australia still has no confirmed government, we're functioning under a caretaker ALP government until every vote is counted and confirmed, and the only definite winner from tonight is the Greens. That combined with Family First losing their representation is the best news I'm taking out from the election.
End of the election live-blogging, I'll stop spamming my flist now. Goodnight.
EDIT: ABC tally now on 68 ALP, 68 LNP, with 5 others (one of those being Greens outright, another one being former-Green-turned-Independent). Seriously looks like a hung Parliament!!
EDIT2: Maxine McKew on TV having lost Bennelong, the seat she won last election ousting John Howard. Talk about a complete sea-change in that seat.
EDIT3: ...Yeeeeeah, ALP is paying for knifing Rudd.
EDIT4: FAMILY FIRST SENATOR FIELDING IS OUT?? OMGPLZ LET IT BE. CONFIRMED FIELDING IS OUT!!
EDIT5: ABC tallies 69 ALP and 70 LNP. crap.
EDIT6: Big news of the night - Queensland now has the youngest politician aged TWENTY. TWENTY YEARS OLD. Also we apparently also have our first Indigenous House of Reps MP.
EDIT7: ABC tally is stuck on ALP 69, LNP 71, 1 Greens, and four Independents (one of whom is a former Greens). Five seats still in doubt. In other words, neither of the two major parties have the numbers for an outright majority to form government and will be making a lot of phone calls to the Greens and other Independents to try and get them on their side. Who is the next Prime Minister? WE HAVE NO IDEA.
EDIT8: ALP 70, LNP 72. Still no one with the 76 seats necessary to form government. Greens have picked up a lot of Senate seats.
EDIT9: Julia Gillard is speaking. Says until the outcome of the election is clearly known she is still PM and the ALP is still in power.
EDIT10: Wonder how the Governor-General fits into all this. Waiting for Abbott to come on now.
EDIT11: "You're both trying to paint the other as the nasty party, but the fact is, you all spin. You ALL spin." Kerry O'Brien = awesome. Tony Abbott is on now.
EDIT12: "The government has lost its majority. And that means, the government has lost its legitimacy." Abbott's speech is coming off very confident.
EDIT13: ABC's panel of Nick Minchin (Liberal) and Stephen Smith (ALP) have taken us out with their comments. Smith acknowledges the ALP has to do some hard thinking about whether changing their leader (ie., the Prime Minister) the way they did was a good idea or not. In any case, Australia still has no confirmed government, we're functioning under a caretaker ALP government until every vote is counted and confirmed, and the only definite winner from tonight is the Greens. That combined with Family First losing their representation is the best news I'm taking out from the election.
End of the election live-blogging, I'll stop spamming my flist now. Goodnight.