Early release of New Politics podcast for subscribers, everyone else, Saturday @ 8AM – #WAvotes and Dutton’s slow-moving train wreck. Listen in, share, subscribe! #AUSPOL @dlew919 https://open.substack.com/pub/newpolitics/p/wa-votes-and-dutton-unravelling?r=jwtmx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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It kind of feels weird to be agreeing with Zak Kirkup's quotes in this article: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-10/wa-election-2025-electoral-commissioner-calls-suspension/105032768

You can underfund the WA Electoral Commission or criticise how they ran the election, but it seems a bit on the nose to do both.

www.watoday.com.au/politics/wes.... #Auspol #WAvotes I vote Labor and whilst this may be all OK, our election process must be seen to be 100% without questions.

Company at centre of WA electi...

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Listening to the Liberal Party panel member on the ABC last night lamenting their 3rd consecutive electoral disaster in WA and noting the big part played by Millenial voters.

His takeaway was that the Party was drifting too far to the left.

Where do they find these people? #WAvotes #auspol

Look, I have no love for Libby Mettam, but if they roll her they are stupid.

The Labor smear campaign made much of their revolving-door leadership and if they put Basil in or whoever, they have not learned and will have proven why they are unelectable.

How are the LNP going to get to work now? They'll have to buy a mini van. #wavotes

Back in 2007, I was handing out HTVs for Kevin Rudd* in Subiaco, WA. When Julie Bishop stepped out of her car to vote, I thought it would be fun to offer her a HTV. She did NOT think it was fun, and I received one of her famous death stares. Not really #wavotes but I remembered it now.

*yeah I know, he turned out to be a dick

Well, good work Western Australia!

#Dutton should be squirming right now.

Antony Green has delivered the killing blow to the hopes of any RWNJs who thought they had a chance of winning. Roger Cook has been voted-in to give Labour another term to govern Western Australia.

Western Australia continues to be a wasteland for the LNP. I wish I could say it's because the ALP are brilliant strategists or have amazing policies, but it's starting to seem the ALP has been coasting for years, and the LNP have been a hot mess for years.

A stand-out example of this is Liberal candidate, Basil Zempilas, who said to the ABC that he's the victim of a massive smear campaign. In reality, the only person smearing Basil Zempilas is Basil Zempilas — he defames himself every time he opens his mouth.

It's too early to say with any precision, but I would like to think that when the final votes are counted, the LNP have a similarly dismal presence in Parliament as last term, when Labor won 53 out of 59 of the seats.

#WAVotes

I'm still hopeful my electorate of South Perth will stay with Labor, but it's unlikely.

Geoff Baker was the first ever Labor member and he has done a good job of making himself visible and available these past four years. #WAPol

I declared myself eligible for an election pizza tonight, even tho the time difference means I'm unlikely to see much of the count broadcast. But now I feel like scrambled egg with mushroom. Imagine my dilemma! Tradition vs appetite
#auspol #wavotes

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Western Australia 2025: Final Polls Predict Another Drubbing