{"id":2783,"date":"2010-08-24T21:29:47","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T11:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=2783"},"modified":"2010-08-25T07:29:28","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T21:29:28","slug":"election-result-hung-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=2783","title":{"rendered":"Election Result: Hung Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"

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83% of Australians didn’t believe Labor deserved to be in government.
\nHowever, 52% said it was better than the alternative.<\/em>
\n– Galaxy Poll taken late in the campaign<\/p>\n

“In terms of running the campaign, decisions are made by a small group of people who quite frankly just operated on political cliches.”<\/em>
\n– Alannah McTiernan, recently retired Labor MP referring to the Labor campaign<\/p>\n

“GROKGRAAAAGRRRRRFJFJFJFJFJFJFRRRRR!!!”
\n–<\/em> Maxine McKew, defeated Labor MP on the night of the election<\/p>\n

“\u201cThe people have spoken, but it\u2019s going to take a little while to determine exactly what they said.\u201d<\/em>
\n– Julia Gillard, during her speech on the election results<\/p>\n

[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RQ_s6V1Kv6A[\/youtube]\n

So after a thoroughly turgid election campaign in which both Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott took hollow political sloganeering and attack ads to new heights, the Australian public responded with the largest shift of votes to minority parties that this country has ever seen post-World War II.\u00a0 The Greens ended up with something like 10% of the popular vote, which can be read as a protest that left-leaning politics are not being represented in the major parties whatsoever.\u00a0 Instead, we got Gillard rolling out three campaign slogans in three weeks:\u00a0 Moving Forward, Yes We Can<\/span> Will and (ironically) The Real Julia.\u00a0 Meanwhile Tony Abbott complained this was going to be a ‘filthy’ election and then proceeded to run a campaign that ABC’s The Gruen Nation<\/em> identified as having 34 attack ads hanging shit on the ALP and just a single ad promoting the LNP’s own policies.<\/p>\n

Yuck.<\/p>\n

On the plus side, until the final Election speeches, I never knew how absolutely smoking hot Tony Abbott’s daughters were.<\/p>\n

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Good Lord: Tony Abbott's daughters<\/p><\/div>\n

It was also an election of many ‘firsts’.<\/p>\n

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