Antony Green: Please just let me rest
Bradfield: NO

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-19/bradfield-may-go-to-recount-as-race-narrows-between-liberal-teal/105311772

AEC tweets “Bradfield update: The counting of first preference votes & the indicative two-candidate preferred (TCP) count is now finalised. The indicative TCP margin is 40.” #communityIndependent Nicolette Boele is provisional winner by just 40 votes. Further (re-)counting to come. #ausVotes

Lesson for the Liberals: do the opposite of what Peta Credlin says
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/lesson-for-the-liberals-do-the-opposite-of-what-peta-credlin-says-20250506-p5lx28.html

This article lists fundamental problems with the Liberal Party. Peter Dutton led them to a record defeat — that's largely due to Dutton being a malevolent potato, but his image and message were not helped by the Sky News stooges such as Peta Credlin, who have been parroting the same awful talking-points since the days of Tony Abbott.

Interesting that I've seen two articles recently defending our electoral system.

William Bowe at Crikey:
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/16/australia-preferential-voting-system-friday-fight-no/

Kevin Bonham at The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/17/attacks-on-australias-preferential-voting-system-are-ludicrous-we-can-be-proud-of-it

My 2 cents is I'm ok with current system, but I wish people would better understand the lower house system. Particularly that a party winning lot of seats there doesn't necessarily mean the public directly endorsed that party.

Tim Wilson "Shitting Bricks" About Goldstein Election Result
(Headline has been updated to reflect reality)
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/may/16/australia-news-live-ben-roberts-smith-appeal-verdict-ntwnfb?page=with%3Ablock-6826b2d98f0862c2eaa33f18#block-6826b2d98f0862c2eaa33f18

I heard from my sources that approximately 2/3 of international postal votes are for Teal independent Zoe Daniel. She needs just 258 votes to beat smarmy RWNJ candidate Tim "Freedom Boy" Wilson. 474 votes are yet to be counted, plus 50-100 estimated to arrive before the cutoff midnight tonight.

What the #AusVotes election campaign missed was petty vandalism of coreflutes. Pleased to finally find one.

Queensland Senator Larissa Waters has been elected as the new leader of the Australian Greens

She is a former environmental lawyer who first entered the senate in 2011

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/15/larissa-waters-is-the-new-federal-greens-leader-heres-five-things-to-know-about-her

A good swing to Labor in Longman but it's a LNP retain. #ausvotes

Ten days after #AusVotes, there are still eight divisions where the AEC hasn't yet been able to publish preference counts, because it's not clear which two candidates will make the final two.

In some of these seats, it's pretty clear who will win despite that. In others, the winner will depend on who make that final two.

Labor’s landslide victory obscures a disturbing trend for the major parties

The major parties’ primary vote has, once again, fallen.

In fact, there is a strong chance that the combined independent and minor party vote will beat one of the major parties for the first time in seven decades.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-10/election-results-independents-rising-charts/105267162

Good.