By Paul Homewood
It was supposed to be the election where climate change became the decisive issue.
It was, but not as planned!
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has retained power in the Australian election.
Bill Shorten’s Labor Party will finish behind Scott Morrison’s Coalition and the Prime Minister still has a path to a majority government.
In counting to date, the Coalition holds 74 seats to Labor’s 67 seats, while the crossbench looks set to contain six members. It is ahead in three seats which are too close to call. If these leads hold, it could win a bare majority in the 151-seat House of Representatives.
Labor failed to make the gains it expected due largely to a poor primary vote of just 33.92 per cent, which was 1.59 per cent below its primary vote at the last election.
https://www.thegwpf.com/climate-hysteria-costs-labor-australian-elections/
Latest news is that Bill Shorten has resigned. It was the same Bill Shorten who declared the “climate emergency” was Labour’s top priority:
Federal Labor leader Bill Shorten has referred to climate change as an “emergency,” in his final formal pitch to voters ahead of Saturday’s federal election.
“if you vote Labor we will deliver the change that the nation deserves from day one,” the Opposition Leader said in his speech at Bowman Hall in Blacktown, New South Wales, on Thursday.
“We will convene Parliament to prioritise real action on climate change… I promise that we will send a message to the world, that when it comes to climate change Australia is back in the fight!,” he said.
“It is not the Australian way to avoid and duck the hard fights. We will take this emergency seriously, and we will not just leave it to other countries or to the next generation.
“We are up for real action on climate change now if we get elected on Saturday.” ….
https://reneweconomy.com.au/shorten-declares-climate-emergency-as-top-priority-for-labor-89384/
We keep being told that the public want governments to “do something” about climate change. Yet when it actually comes around to “doing something”, such as paying higher energy bills and taxes, or loss of jobs, the public ends up voting with its feet.
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