The Coaliton

One of the things that has become increasingly obvious is that the Greens have probably benefited the most with there support of the Labor Government. 

It makes you wonder why the National party continues to be in "Coalition" with the Liberal party. Whatever influence they do have really never gets published. Both Coalition and Liberal policies blur into one. 

It would also seem apparent to me that the tradition constitutes of the party those from the country are starting to wake up to this: Three independents all from the country...

As I see it the Nats have two options. Become less relevant and blur into the Liberal party. This most likely will just encourage more independents and loss of seats. Or separate from the Liberals, represent there tradition country men and women.

Bass, Victoria election 2010

Ken Smith easily won the seat of Bass for the liberals. Results from the Victorian Electoral commission::

LONERGAN, Gerry ALP  29.07% SMITH, Ken Liberal  56.96% RANKINE, Neil Greens  10.61%

It was a big win to Ken Smith. It was also worth noting that the Greens actually increased there vote from the last Victorian Election. The big looser was Labour.

election 2010 :: roundup

Well exciting times, just a brief summary of my thoughts::


-The sex party polled better than family first! (What does this say?)
-A hung parliament, no political party gets to push their legislation down our throats without proper review.
-Flinders: for the locals Greg Hunt gave young Francis Ventura a flogging. The Greens like most seats increased their percentage at the expencsive of Labor
-Broadband is still an issue with the independents who hold the balance of power. There is hope for an NBN.

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