Note that in Australian politics the Liberal Party is the center-right party (think classical liberal) and the Labour Party is the "progressives".
Labour has lost seats they have never lost in elections before. This is the worst thrashing in history for a party going from a majority of seats (50 out of 93 seats) to only 19 seats with a voter swing of 17 points.
The Liberal/National Party coalition is looking at 71 seats out of 93 (the National Party is to the right of the Liberal Party).
The global progressive movement has just taken yet another severe beating.
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We are celebrating the ousting of that corrupt selection of bunglers.
Good riddance. Don't come back for at least a decade or two!
IN the pockets of land developers, made stupid policy. Taxed us to death while not using our taxes for their intended purpose: roads, hospitals, schools, infrastructure.
It was taxes firstly, Federal Gillard Government announced Carbon Tax, so we told them what we thought of that idiocy.
Next it was the sale of the state-owned electricity provider, which the State Govt did in secrecy then shut the parliament down rather than have an inquiry. They ended democracy in NSW.
We hated that too.
Then there is the fact our roads, schools and hospitals are totally run down but they've been taking all our taxes all this time supposedly to pay for them
and the corrupt deals with land developers
we HATED these incompetents who had sat their fat behinds in power for the last 16 years riding this state into the ground.
Get rid of them!
Meanwhile Pauline Hanson everyone voted for her with a 1 above the line, but maybe those votes didn't get counted as you needed to number 1-15 below the line and specify her, as she was in a non-aligned group of independents.
So because people didn't know perhaps that's why she didn't get in.
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>Then there is the fact our roads, schools and hospitals are totally run down but they've been taking all our taxes all this time supposedly to pay for them
Well Schools and hospitals are something the state does very badly. It's a pity the desire people have for someone else to pay overwhelms the sense that what they get should be any good.
Connectivity is something the state does well, but the tax system means they get treated as a cost, rather than the billable service they would under an LVT.
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