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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Cricket thread
Last post by Professer E -
Yea, at least 300 short of where they were heading.
The bloke trying to hit a six to bring up his maiden test century by charging Lyon got my prize for stupidity, trumping a strong field in good form.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Last post by Baggers -
Quote from: PaulP – on
Hanson's natural habitat is the gutter, and she is IMO, clearly trying to drag both parties down to her level, where she has a clear advantage. Disguising her crude attacks on Lambie, Wong and others as poor taste humour, freedom of speech etc is laughable.

Perhaps an important question is how do people of low intellect, poor morality, zero emotional intelligence and seemingly deeply mired in anger/rage, such as PH (and Trump), get into these positions of influence in  the first place?

Not only do they negatively influence other discontented lost souls wherever they go, they grow anger, discontent, fear and ethical degradation. All they achieve is creating, merging and growing a movement of social decay... cheered on by emboldened malcontents.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Last post by Lods -
Quote from: kruddler – on
Despite all of this, my gut feel is that one nation is a lot bigger in the northern states.

I suspect you wouldn't see a lot of difference in One Nation 'electoral' support between Victoria, and a place like Queensland.
It'd be pretty much the same around that low 20% mark.

That doesn't mean Northerners aren't more conservative/right leaning in their political views.
But those views are probably addressed by more 'right leaning' LNP and Independent candidates in the North.

Why switch to ON when you already have some who basically shares your political and social views.

The 'electoral' problem One Nation faces is that their support is patchy.
It will be particularly strong in some areas....up over 30% perhaps.
But in  others they will struggle around 10-15%
That's why the main focus in Victoria probably won't be the overall level of support for ON, but how it translates into actual seats in the parliament.
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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Cricket thread
Last post by DJC -
Scotty Boland omitted; our best bowler and one of our better batsmen 🙄

I’d love to know what the selectors’ are thinking; it can’t be about rewarding good technique, form and effort.
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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Cricket thread
Last post by LP -
If only they'd replaced Head with a NSWelshman.

After winning the toss and bowling, Lyon on in the 11th over, is this proof Smith was doing a BumberT and Cummins a JTurd?

A Clayton's anyone?

Lunch, specialist commentary 3 NSWelshman, recommendations, NSWelshman what else!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Last post by DJC -
The only poll that has proved to be almost as reliable as the one on election day is Roy Morgan Research.  They are saying that preferences will be vital with a significant number of electors declaring that they will not preference PHON under any circumstances.  That could mean L-NP, ALP, Greens or independent candidates winning on preferences.

Victoria has now banned the upper house group voting tickets so there won't be any miraculous fringe party victories.  Morgan research has the Legislative Council going:

L-NP 12
ALP  10
Greens  8
PHON  6
Undecided  4

There's still a way to go but, at this stage, a minority government with a hostile upper house could be likely.

Plenty of campaigning happening down here on the Bellarine but no sign of PHON so far.