Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025

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• LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Today is my birthday. A cool present would be to get the LNP out of here.

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  • RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Happy Birthday!

    I have put in towards your present, hopefully enough other people can contribute too and get your wish.

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    • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve done my part!

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yay, thank you!!!

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  • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Happy birthday! 🎂

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thank you :)

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  • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Happy birthday, May your wishes come true

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks!!

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Happy birthday 🎂

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks!

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  • useless_modern_god@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Happy Berfday 🎂

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fank you :)

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  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Happy birthday!!!

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks!!

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  • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      THANK YOU <3

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  • briongloid@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Happy birthday

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks!

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  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Happy b’day!

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Cheers :)

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  • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Happy birthday! Hope you have a fabulous day!

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thank you, same to you :)

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  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Happy birthday!

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thank you!

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  • Eagle@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Happy Birthday wishes!

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Cheers!

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Happy birthday!

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks!

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  • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Happy Birthday! Beautiful day for it 🍻

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Cheers 🍻

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• Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Looking forward to drinking a toast to Peter Dutton, former member for Dickson (fingers crossed).

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  • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have a bottle of bubbly on hand and a bottle of scotch in case it’s another 2019…

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    • just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      GP appt on standby to ask for some medication for these trying times, should that nightmare come to pass…

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  • Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    CHEERS!

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• Pilk@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My short wishlist for today:

  • Devastating LNP loss
  • Dutton loses his seat
  • Amelia Hamer is never heard from again

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  • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Clive Palmer to have a shower slipping accident with a brass instrument

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    • Salvo@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      media1.tenor.com/m/…/celebrating-celebration.gif

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  • briongloid@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As a Malvernite, I’ll be devastated if Kooyong actually votes Amelia in, too many of her signs on houses in my suburb.

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  • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    All those, plus:

    • a good cake stall at the polling station

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  • RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They would all be good things. I’m also hopeful that my local member, Michael Sukkar, might lose his seat as well. It was very close last time - it looked like he had lost initially, then it swung back to him as the postal votes were counted. He won on a 0.2% margin, and I saw some recent polling saying he is now predicted to be leading by 0.02%, so it really could go either way.

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have a friend who lives in that seat! It was only a few hundred votes which is crazy 🗳

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  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    YES

    I’m a bit worried because Kooyong did get redistributed to include the extra rich out-of-touch boomer folks in Armadale and Malvern (?)

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• imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Even though I care not for the spud, after Trump and the shenanigans about stolen elections, I am proud that I live somewhere where elections are called and there is some basic civility around the gracious defeat speech then the victory speech. This might be the bottle of bubbly talking…

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  • Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He handled that well, I can give him that. On what’s clearly a challenging day for him personally, he’s been quite dignified in defeat

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  • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think we sometimes forget how good it is here compared to other Global North countries, especially in regards to elections, and our voting rights.

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    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The book From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage has a great history on voting in Australia and how it compares to other countries

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  • briongloid@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It was nice to see a regular professional concession speech again.

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• Zacpod@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This Canadia wishes you Aussies the best possible outcome! You can do it!

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• briongloid@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Discussion about the federal election is allowed and encouraged.

  Criticism about candidates, parties and pundits are all welcome.

  Don’t be afraid to use the report function, a screenshot if you feel the need to.

  Keep it civil and if you disagree with another user, you can either disagree with them courteously or simply down-vote and not reply.

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I feel a good life is possible , with opportunities and fairness, for the young seagoons , and all aussies 😭

    i would not have had that feeling if the libs got in

    we need to better manage our natural resources and taxation and then we will be gold like scandinavia

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is it safe to come out now?

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    • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think it is. Antony Green has called it

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• briongloid@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • briongloid@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

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  • just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fuck yeaaaaaah

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  • bacon@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Beep Beep 🚚
    🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

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    • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Champers all round I reckon. Victoria deserves it. Slightly less political idiocy than usual, though there’s still plenty to go around.

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    • RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Champagne for me please, and a big drink of water for the fire trucks I keep hearing drive past. I’m presuming it’s my local MPs chances of keeping his seat going up in flames.

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    • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Popcorn and a nice single malt please

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• just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fuck yeah!!! Antony Green called it for Labor and WA has barely closed lmao

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• briongloid@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can’t believe it’s already been called, this is wild.

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• TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Right. 6 pm. Heeeere we gooooooo!

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  • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    St Antony mathematics for us

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    • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Praise Antony Green 🙌🏼 the beautiful tone of his voice fills my living room this cold night

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• tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thank god I voted early. I woke up feeling both barrels of the New Sickness one of the boys has. To top it off, he didn’t want me in the bed with him after I gave him medicine after 1am so I went and slept on the couch.

  Last thing I’d want to do whilst sick and after a terrible sleep is my civic duty.

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• TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Kids party next door. Adults talking politics and getting fairly heated. Kids playing pass the parcel and pin the tail on the donkey. Much noise. Pray for me.

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• imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My booth had more people on the cake and sausage stalls then out the front with fliers. That’s something a lot of countries wouldn’t understand and I think it’s awesome. Democracy done. School supported and choc chip bickkies in mah tummy

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• Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We begin our day cleaning cat sick out of carpet. Things can only improve from here, right?

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• tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The most important thing now is to see if Purple Pingerz makes the Senate

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• Pilk@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Antony has just called it.

  Labor wins government, possibly with a large majority.

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• sqgl@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People here probably don’t need the warning but the Trumpet of Patriot Image are disingenuous.

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  time for some sleep, I’ve spent the day busy and also some comfort eating

  I feel like I can make plans for the future knowing there aren’t fascists in power

  sweet dreams everyone 😘

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• underwatermagpies@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We’ll miss Antony Green. What a legend.

  I guess Casey Briggs got a test run during Covid when people were calling him “the Antony Green of death”, and he’ll be good, but it won’t be the same.

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• Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fascinating watching the abc at the moment, the libs won’t own up to their mistakes and talk crap.

  It’s honestly embarrassing.

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• MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Happy with the results, now time to put my local MP through the wringer so she actually addresses the real problems.

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• underwatermagpies@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Majority government is good, they might actually get some shit done. The LNP will be very weak, like in Vic, which isn’t actually great for democracy going forward, but maybe it’ll convince them that they need to be less super right wing and they’ll ultimately end up as a more moderate party. Maybe.

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• SituationCake@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well it’s done. I didn’t have to wait as long as I thought for the result. I was thinking Labour would win, but thought it would be a narrower result. I can rest easy tonight, and hopefully wake up to news Dutton has lost his seat.

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• Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Dad’s involved in the counting for Kooyong. Obviously he’s limited to very simple communications, but he sounds like he’s having a ball

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• Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Done! Now show me the senate 😺

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• calhoon2005@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Cracked 26min at my Parkrun this morning and felt really good too… 😳

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• dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think I can talk about AEC work now that I’ve withdrawn. The offer I got was Sat night, 8pm start, minimum wage ($30.14), expected 3am finish (casual, maybe early dismissal) counting votes at an OPC (cold warehouse). I wouldn’t take that shift for any job TBH. Maybe I’m being too picky but that’s atrocious pay and hours for a one off ~7 hour job.

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• Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wow. The Coalition guy speaking now on ABC is being amazingly honest. I’m impressed

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• imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wow. Turning up to Victoria and trashing it was not a great strategy for the Libs. /s

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• underwatermagpies@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m not sure who this Liberal on the ABC is but he’s edging closer to a full tantrum and I am here for it.

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