Carlton Supporters Club

I think that the lack of participation in this thread reflects the current disenchantment with Australian politics and political parties.

According to the latest AEC figures, the Coalition currently has 67 seats in the House of Reps and Labor has 71.  Six seats are undecided so the Coalition can only get to 73 if everything goes its way.  That means we're in for minority government and a period of unusual collaboration or great instability.

What's the chances of another election before the end of the year?

Bye bye Malcolm?

Could be Cookie.  At best it shows poor judgement; he should have called an election shortly after he rolled Abbott and his popularity was at its peak.

No guarantee that would have worked either.

I believe we will end up with a hung vote and we go again.

Bye bye Malcolm?

That should be the case....but replace him with 'who'

Abbott cant come back...too many of the senior folk were involved in his demise....Morrison, Bishop?

At this point there cant be a leadership change...deals to be done etc.

Once the dust settles though the moves will start and it wont be pretty.

The Lib right will be plotting its moves as we speak - Malcolm has plenty of enemies with a score to settle.

Not really, most of Abbott's support was removed over the recent year or so. Keep in mind when Abbott potted Bishop, he lost a very large chunk of his NSW Right support.

I suspect if the Coalition go backwards they would be decimated at another election, and the independents would grow even more powerful through peoples disillusionment with the two majors.

I know several life long ALP supporters who have just voted Coalition for the first time ever. But they are not abandoning their politics, just sending a message.

The risk for the Coalition is that this result has happened in-spite of Andrews best attempts to scupper the ALP in Victoria. If another election is called to resolve the deadlock, and the CFA issue goes away, those disgruntled voters may return to the ALP and that would be a nightmare for the Coalition.

There is no convincing the voters the threat to Medicare is bogus, the track record over the last few years says otherwise, and a return to Abbott would only reinforce that belief.

MT ran a shockingly lazy, almost arrogant campaign.

There was an article by a journo who spent the last 2 weeks with MT and his team and he said they were lethargic as all get up......

And the other bloke lied.

Great options we have.

At least Pauline gets a say in how our country is run.