Submitted by rickeyre on
There were no blogs in 1996. No Wikipedia, no Youtube, not even a Google. There was a CricInfo, and I used my dialup terminal connection to follow the live scores on a lynx browser, and to catch up on the archives through gopher. That was how I kept up with the Cricket World Cup on March 2, 1996, the last time Australia had a Labor government.
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Not easy to interpret senate figures so early in the piece, but a couple of observations so far:
The Democrats are history. They have performed dismally in Queensland (0.09 quotas on first preference at the moment). They're on 0.11 quotas in Victoria which makes it damn hard for Lyn Allison. In New South Wales, they've been outpolled by the DLP, which has been spent force in Australian politics from the time Vince Gair was despatched to Dublin.
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I'm calling a Labor Party victory now.
Yee-ha!
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It's not ready to call yet. Labor is getting closer to winning the election, but not yet. I still think John Howard is gone. Malcolm Turnbull appears safe. Peter Costello was looking shaky in Higgins for a short while. The incredibly bad Danna Vale has made it home in Hughes. I think Bob Baldwin has retained Paterson, but I know from past elections that this electorate can take days to decide.
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The overall election is still in the balance, but at 7.30pm I'm going to call Bennelong as a win for Maxine McKew.
GOODBYE JOHNNY HOWARD!!!
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Polls have closed in NSW, ACT, Victoria, Tasmania. Sky News are calling a Labor win on the strength of their exit polling already. The AEC tells us that 0.00% of the vote has been counted, with 150 seats still in doubt.
My prediction for the final seat count: ALP 82, L/NP 66, Independent 2.
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Today I voted in my twelfth House of Representatives election. For the first time, I have not given my first preference to a Labor candidate.
As in 2004, I'm laying my voting cards on the table in full. In the House of Representatives seat of Grayndler:
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When you're on a crappy idea, stick to it. (And I'm not just talking about the insistence on uploading videos in the wrong aspect ratio.)
Update 28 September 2009: This video, apparently, is now "private". Personal keepsake of John and Jeanette, perhaps?
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The day of Howard's End is upon us, and of all the election-related videos, serious and otherwise, that I have featured over the last 728 years of the campaign, two stand out: Chairman Kev is one, the other is my Grand Final Election Youtube Do Dia.
Presenting the music video of "It's Time to Go For Growth" by the Axis of Awesome.
