Australian Federal Election - Results Thread

[Platypus]

FWIW, Southcott (Liberal) is doing hugely well on postal votes in Boothby, and horribly on absentee, so my previous post may be thoroughly incorrect.

[Platypus]

Little birdie suggests Corangamite might see quite a big Lib surge in the votes to come. Certainly looks possible.

[Platypus]

They've finished Postal votes in Hasluck, and almost finished Pre-poll, but they've only counted 1/10 of the labor-favouring absentee votes and none of the presumably heaving pro-labor provisional votes...so I wouldn't call it yet.

[Platypus]

FWIW, the Hasluck declaration votes:

Absentee
Envelopes issued: 7,775
Envelopes received: 7,372
Votes counted: 744
Votes discounted: 4
Current margin 53.41% to Jackson TPP

Pre-poll
Envelopes issued: 4,791
Envelopes received: 3,718
Votes counted: 3,373
Votes discounted: 6
Current margin 52.22% to Wyatt TPP

Postal
Envelopes issued: 3,739
Envelopes received: 55
Votes counted: 4,053*
Votes discounted: 1
Current margin 54.08% to Wyatt TPP

Provisional
Envelopes issued: 1,566
Envelopes received: 1,566
Votes counted: 0
Votes discounted: 0
No current margin

*Not sure what is happening here


(note: I would extrapolate and guess that Jackson will close the gap by around 600-1000 votes, probably around 800...and she's currently behind by 762.

[Platypus]

Question for those who know about Australian history than my wikipedia-perusing self - why has been historically so many right-wing splits from the Labor party like the DLP or various 'anti-communist' factions? (Catholicism?)

The big split (that created the DLP) had a lot to do with Catholicism, but there was more to it than that. [snip]

And that a Catholic organization could win such an importance in the ALP has a lot to do with the strong Labour lean of Catholics in the decades before 1950... which has a lot to do with so many of them being the descendants of Irish convicts. immigrants.

Fixed (although to be fair it was probably many convicts as well, but most convicts sent across were English, and almost all the Welsh and Scotsmen were free settlers).

[Platypus]

Also remember that Victoria was freely settled.

[Platypus]

Also remember that Victoria was freely settled.

That's South Australia, actually.

Both, if you exclude the short-lived convict camps in what is now Victoria, that had no influence on the eventual towns of Victoria.

[Platypus]

Also remember that Victoria was freely settled.

That's South Australia, actually.

Both.

Technically not.

(And not in practice either - both colonies got settled to a considerable degree by excon exilees.)

Well, the second part is correct, but it depends how technical you are - if you mean the foundation of continuous settlement; no. If you mean there-were-at-some-point-before-the-PPP-were-there-some-convict-camps-at-Sorrento-and-the-Surf-Coast, then yes

[Platypus]

It's 93.21% counted of the possible vote, which is also, legally speaking, the only possible figure due to compulsory voting.