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Post by timrollpickering on Oct 23, 2013 12:53:47 GMT
Since an amendment in 1977 the replacement must be from the same party the outgoing Senator was originally elected for. (There were actually three disputes about Senate replacements in the Whitlam era with both sides having grievances and the amendment tried to resolve them all.) In nearly all cases the state parliaments in joint sitting has rubber stamped the party's nominee but in 1987 Tasmania deadlocked on a Labor replacement with the parliament refusing to approve the ALP nominee and the ALP refusing to nominated anyone else. There was a High Court challenge lodged but a double dissolution swept the problem aside before it could be heard.
Carr is, I think, the first Senator to resign with two terms - his current lame duck one and the new term fom July 1st. It's not clear if he can resign both now or if he nominally returns in July and the state parliament has to go through this all a second time. There could be the opportunity for the NSW state parliament - the Coalition have a majority - to make a point about Carr flitting in and out.
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Post by Sibboleth on Oct 23, 2013 17:35:10 GMT
Pretty much every pattern can be explained or (at worst) vaguely speculated about, so feel free to ask if curious. Along with Palmer's United Fruitcake, I was going to do a map (Queensland only) of Katter's Australian Fruitcake and might still do. There's also maybe a logic in mapping the intra-coalition contests in Western Australia, even the pattern is very obvious.
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Post by timrollpickering on Oct 24, 2013 10:57:35 GMT
Are you using primary, 2CP or 2PP figures for the main two?
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Post by Sibboleth on Oct 24, 2013 14:51:16 GMT
Primary figures.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Oct 25, 2013 11:49:57 GMT
Fairfax recount update: about 72% complete (35 out of 46 polling places), with Palmer still a nose ahead. His current margin is 64 votes.
Palmer and his team have challenged about half of all the ballot papers.
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Post by Sibboleth on Oct 31, 2013 0:39:15 GMT
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Post by Dalek Prime on Oct 31, 2013 17:58:49 GMT
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Oct 31, 2013 18:29:03 GMT
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Nov 7, 2013 12:07:06 GMT
Update on Western Australia. As a result of the recount, Wayne Dropulich (Australian Sports Party) and Scott Ludlam (Greens) were declared elected; they had previously been eliminated. (Official press release: www.aec.gov.au/media/media-releases/2013/e11-02.htm)Zhenya "Dio" Wang (Palmer United Party) and Louise Pratt (Australian Labor Party), who had been in winning positions on the first count, have missed out. However the fun doesn't end there, because the recount included 1,375 fewer ballots than had been counted at first. Clive Palmer is very likely to take it to the High Court, and if successful (a real possibility), the whole election could be thrown out and Western Australia reballoted for six Senators. |
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Post by timrollpickering on Nov 7, 2013 15:36:55 GMT
Meanwhile the Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party has been engulfed in disruption within months of formation with their Senator-elect Ricky Muir signing a pact with Palmer whilst the central party executivve has suspended the Victorian state copuncil. If this runs much further and Muir leaves the Senate early it could lead to an interesting case to determine what "party" he was elected from.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2013 9:22:45 GMT
Rudd is resigning from parliament. Leaving at the end of the week.
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Post by timrollpickering on Nov 13, 2013 11:52:57 GMT
Amazing they managed to get him to see the writing on the wall so quickly.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2013 23:41:17 GMT
Rudd's departure will mean a by election in his south Brisbane electorate of Griffith. This will be the first federal by election since December 2009 and the first in a Labor held seat since Werriwa in March 2005, which was prompted by the resignation of Mark Latham.
Griffith has been Labor at every election since 1975, except 1996 when Rudd lost it at his first attempt before gaining it back for Labor in 1998. This year he defied some funny electorate polls suggesting a defeat might be on the cards, winning 53-47 2pp. It's currently the safest Labor seat in Queensland, though some of that is a Rudd personal vote.
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Post by Andrew_S on Nov 14, 2013 0:01:42 GMT
We're still waiting for the final 2PP result. It's still at 139 out of 150 which is where it's been pretty much since election night. It'll be mildly interesting to see whether it ends up being 54-46 or 53-47.
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Post by Sibboleth on Nov 14, 2013 0:48:41 GMT
It's currently the safest Labor seat in Queensland, though some of that is a Rudd personal vote. No more: Blair, Rankin and Oxley all have bigger majorities. |
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Post by markgoodair on Nov 14, 2013 6:14:16 GMT
Rudd is resigning from parliament. Leaving at the end of the week. Can't Brown do the same over here !! |
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