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Ugh that is awful
As an aside, did the Liberals ever end up releasing their policy costings?
yes
they are paying for everything by slashing foreign aid, early childhood education funds and research grants in the humanities
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Still hope for the NBN, maybe?
The AEC provisional quotas page shows that the Coalition has enough quota for 11 seats outright before the distribution of preferences whereas the ABC site says they have only one 1 seat after preferences.
A whole bunch of the 'others' on the ABC Senate Results summary are Coalition seats.
Which is a bad idea if you're building the network from nothing. It'll cost them the same amount for a worse service if they have to buy out the old telco.
Doesn't this have to be approved by Parliament? So, theoretically, if Labor can muster enough support from other parties, they could effectively block it?
I don't really understand how Australian politics works.
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protecting the 'old telco' is the whole point, i reckon. along with murdoch's interests...
However, if the House of Reps puts through a bill that is rejected twice in 3 months the government can declare a double dissolution election and we go back to the polls to re-elect all of the Senate and House of Reps again.
The Senate works on terms of 6 years, with half the Senate being recycled every 3 years.
yes, but pending the results in the senate, it looks like the coalition have won an outright majority: meaning they have enough elected members to pass anything, even if labor found support from the greens or any independants
Well yeah.
It'll be interesting to see how the Senate turns out then!
In the case of changing the technology to be used for the NBN it doesn't have to be approved by the Parliament because none of the legislation passed regarding the NBN specifies which technologies are to be used. NBN Co operates as a Government owned company with 1 voting share held by the Finance Minister and 1 share held by the Communications Minister. If the owners of the company tell NBN Co to build FTTN then NBN Co will build FTTN.
I was a bit disappointed he didn't say "Well, I've gotta zip!"
wow
that wasn't planned very well
Haha just kidding, going to get fucking sloshed tomorrow on sake and beer to scrub it all from my head.
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Currently it looks like the Liberals will need the support of PUP, LDP, FF and the Australian Motoring Enthusiasts in order to pass anything through the Senate that Labor, the Greens & Nick Xenophon will not support.
Personally I vote that SA is kicked out of the nation for electing Family First to a balance of power position in the Senate.
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I hope Jason Clare puts his name in, I don't know anything about where he stands policy-wise but he certainly has the biggest "do not fuck with me" frown in Parliament.