Labour loses power in Australia’s Northern Territory.

[Menelik_I]

Canberra: Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s Labour Party lost power in elections in the Northern Territory after 11 years in office.
The Country Liberal Party, led by Terry Mills, won at least 15 of the 25 seats in the Legislative Assembly to oust Chief Minister Paul Henderson’s Labour, according to incomplete results from the August 25 election published by the Australian Electoral Commission on Monday.

The Northern Territory, about the size of Mongolia, is a sparsely populated region in Australia’s arid central-north. More than half of the territory’s 230,000 people live in the port city of Darwin, and about a third of its population is indigenous compared with the national average of about three per cent, according to government statistics.

http://gulfnews.com/news/world/austr...tory-1.1066509

Yes you read it, the Australian Racist Nazi Party, aka the Liberal Party, won in a heavily aborigine (equivalent to Black or Brownie depending on your country) electorate.

Or put it this way: both sides of politics seriously pitched for the Aboriginal vote, and both will have Aboriginal MPs.

In fact, the CLP, once dogged by a reputation for racism, will have the most - as many as five, including, with luck, the magnificent Bess Price (above).

And that tells us racism in politics - even in what academics down south slag off as the most racist part of Australia - is dead.

http://gulfnews.com/news/world/austr...tory-1.1066509

A great victory for the Australian conservatives, is it a good step into taking down Labor at National level ? What changes in terms of policy at National and Internal level if Australia flip ?

What can the British Baby Eating Party ,aka Conservative Party, can learn from that for a more perfect victory over Labor and LibDem in the next election.

Discuss.

Bess Price, an aboriginal conservative member of the Country Liberal Party who is at this moment just a few votes short of becoming an MP

PS :

- Do I live in Australia ? No
- Do I know a lot about Australia ? No.

Some people like to watch breaking bad, I enjoy watching leftist parties get kicked in their electoral groin.

[mishkin]

They have the right to be stupid and make mistakes.

[jamson]

They have the right to be stupid and make mistakes.

Better than having dozens of revolutions like them Spaniards.

[boofhead]

Labor is going to be trounced in all states and in the Fed parliament. They're pathetic.

They were recently trounced in NSW, and utterly destroyed in QLD where they hold 7 seats out of 89 (BWAHAHAHA).

And considering in the NT aborigines make up around 30% of the population, there really should be far more indigenous representatives.

[Caelifer_1991]

One small step backwards for Australia, one giant leap backwards for mankind.

[jamson]

One small step backwards for Australia, one giant leap backwards for mankind.

Forward*

[Menelik_I]

Forward*

To be fair to the chap, it could still be backward if His frame of reference is FUBAR.

[Burnum]

They won the populist vote by stacking certain electorates with indigenous candidates, and basically trashing their own policies on Indigenous Australians that the Labor party picked up.

[Menelik_I]

They won the populist vote by stacking certain electorates with indigenous candidates

Fielding aborigines candidates is good enough for Labor but not for the Liberal Party. Why exactly ?

[Burnum]

Fielding aborigines candidates is good enough for Labor but not for the Liberal Party. Why exactly ?

First, it's the Country Liberal Party, and it's only affiliated with the Liberal party, it's not the actual party. Secondly, you might paint the Country Liberal Party as Rightwing, but they adopted a leftwing approach too Indigenous issues. It's the Indigenous issues that won them the election.

edit: The Country Liberal Party was almost an exclusively white party before it became clear that Indigenous issues would be important. Most of the Indigenous candidates weren't even members 2 years before the election, and the only thing they have in common with the Country Liberal Party is they both are opposed to Labor's Indigenous policies.

[Col. Tartleton]

Liberals defeating Socialists?

In Australia?



You're going to be a great new 7 states. Northern Territory has enough people to justify statehood under the Northwest Ordinance.

The Abrams tanks are going to pay off.

Ever since those Aussie Sheilas first got a whiff of American Marine on R&R in WW2 it was just a matter of time.

[boofhead]

is it a good step into taking down Labor at National level

Labor, federally, is literally the most unpopular government in the history of the country, and no doubt the most inept.

[Engie]

The Australian Labor Party have had this coming for a while now, the carbon tax is incredibly unpopular plus Julia Gillard's leadership has been nothing short of pathetic. Like boofhead said above they are probably the most unpopular government in the history of the country.

I think the question is how much is she going to lose by in the next federal election not if.

[Col. Tartleton]

This is like Democrats in the US complaining that Republicans only field black candidates to hide their racism...

It's pants on the ground retarded.

[jamson]

Nothing good comes from ''positive'' discrimination.

[Thorn777]

LOL so Menelik is cheering on the PASOK vs ND Greek style politics for favors, because he more like ND.

[SLN445]

They had it in the bag and its just a continuation of Labours fall from power and frankly most people dont care anymore
Also can you realy call them a leftist party? Labour now a days pretty much falls somewere in the middle or on the Right.

[Yoda Twin]

Ehh, the last couple of opinion polls have noted a steady rise in both preferred party (I think it is 46 - 54 Coalition right now according to Neisen poll) and preferred PM (Gillard actually has a lead on Abbot now I believe, however slight). Th ALP and Gillard have had a really good couple of weeks behind them actually, plain packaging was constitutionally upheld, the adoption of the Nauru plan was met with positivity by the electorate, Gillard looked pretty good last week when she faced the press on the issue of her departure from Slater & Gordon and Abbott has had a pretty bad week as well.

Clearly, the ALP has a long way to go yet, however I personally do think the election will be a hell of a lot closer than people predicting, with the biggest reason for this is the electorate just haven't been hit as hard by the Carbon Tax as the Libs were predicting.

In terms of the election in the NT, it just follows the pattern that the Party in power federally generally has trouble holding the party's brand in power of the state/territory governments.

[SLN445]

Abbot has always had a popularity issue took a LOT to bring him above Gillard and he easily fell again from being prefered once things stabilised a bit.
Yeh the margines are starting to close again but it still should be a relativly easy win for the Liberals, the Greens have also dropped a little in popularity aswell (thank god).

Im going to Vote liberal as i have done before, though mostly out of lack of choice then anything.

[Yoda Twin]

Abbot has always had a popularity issue took a LOT to bring him above Gillard and he easily fell again from being prefered once things stabilised a bit.
Yeh the margines are starting to close again but it still should be a relativly easy win for the Liberals, the Greens have also dropped a little in popularity aswell (thank god).

Im going to Vote liberal as i have done before, though mostly out of lack of choice then anything.

For the liberals to keep their lead over Labor, I really think they'll need a new issue to focus on before next October. The Carbon Tax issue isn't going to hold enough steam for another year and a half to be a significant issue come election, hell, it is already fizzing out and it has been 2 months.