Well wasn’t the election exciting?
From a news perspective there were so many stories to tell and unlike most elections where the trends appear pretty quickly and it’s all over bar the speeches by 8.30pm, Saturday night saw us at 11pm with no idea who was in power. It was… interesting!
And of course the Electoral Commission don’t count votes on Sunday.
Why not by the way? It’s not as if we have an election every week. It’s once every four years people! Couldn’t you roster counting staff on one Sunday every four years??!
Bizarre.
A possible hung parliament? I love it. This to me feels like democracy, rather than that two party duopoly that passes for democracy usually.
I love the fact that independents are winning seats and that the Nationals and the Greens did so well.
I love the fact that a Green nearly tipped that arrogant Jim McGinty out. Ha!
I might not agree with their policies, in fact, I probably don’t know any of their policies apart from the basics:
Nationals = more money spent in the bush (whoever ends up Premier, Brendon Grylls must be the winner)
Greens = no Uranium, no GM foods, Environment first
I love the fact that now they can argue for them and HAVE to be heard.
I like it that the power base in both Liberal and Labor ranks is shaken a little.
I like it that we might end up with a parliament where people might follow their conscience and really represent their electorates.
Or not. But there’s a chance!
A brave new world for Western Australia and I’m excited to be here.
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I agree – what a nice change to have an election that actually felt like people having their say and being heard. Good to see that that major parties won’t be able to take anything for granted in this term.
It’s the first time I’ve actually watched election coverage with interest (and yes, I watched the ABC of course – why no shots of you in the tally room??)
I must say, I’m not sure I like the game playing of Grylls, but on the other hand he is standing up for the interests of his constituents, so I guess you can’t blame him for that. I wouldn’t want to see another election to break the deadlock – no-one wins out of that; it would just be throwing more money away.
Very interesting times…
I like the Greens….a lot!
I like elections too, even although I cannot vote. Glad you had a good time.
how can you like the nationals and like the Greens because they are anti-uranium? Nationals are pro-uranium mining.
The only difference between libs and labour was that Carpenter was anti-uranium mining.
I never said I liked either – but I do like the fact that they are both becoming a political force because it reduces the power of the two party system and it makes life more interesting.
Groover will argue (and he may have a point) that we’ll end up with government by committee and nothing will ever get done.
To that I just say “Workchoices”.
That’s what happens when one party has power in both houses.