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For the 4th time in a year, Seattle voters made their preference for more progressive governance clear. In the mayoral race, Katie Wilson leads the moderate incumbent mayor Bruce Harrell. Wilson’s opponents tactics of painting progressives as extreme may have gotten stale. #SEAelex #WAvotes

Off to vote early today - wasn't impressed by my #WAVotes experience earlier this year - some company contracted to do work in some assinine "cost-saving measure" did a crap job that reduced public confidence in the voting process. [swears at stupidity of those meant to be overseeing such decisions]

The #AEC had better do a better job.

(Hopefully they've stopped lying to schoolchildren about having to be an Australian citizen to be able to vote.)

#WAEC
#AusPol
https://www.aec.gov.au/election/voting.htm#start

The guy behind this #BoonjiSpaceman imbroglio wants to be the next WA Premier. #WApol #publicart #Ethereum #WAvotes #BasilZempilas #TheKebab www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

‘Space junk’: huge astronaut s...

#WAVotes

We did and now Bazza is Leader of the State Parliamentary Liberal Party.

💫👀 #AusPol

So happy for #KerryStokes and the #7MediaGroup.

Bazza brings so much to this important position; height, good looks, a long history of yuckie choices. Sure to succeed.

Will Bazza get on with the Liberal guy on the ABC's election night coverage, who bemoaned the Liberal's #GunControlLaws from post-#PortArthurMassacre days?
Leave that for Kerry to decide?

Let's hope they don't keep going to the left.

#WAVotes

We did and now Bazza is Leader of the State Parliamentary Liberal Party.

💫👀 #AusPol

So happy for #KerryStokes and the #7MediaGroup.

Bazza brings so much to this important position; height, good looks, a long history of yuckie choices. Sure to succeed.

Will Bazza get on with the Liberal guy on the ABC's election night coverage, who bemoaned the Liberal's #GunControlLaws from post-#PortArthurMassacre days?
Leave that for Kerry to decide?

Let's hope they don't keep going to the left.

#WAVotes

We did and now Bazza is Leader of the State Parliamentary Liberal Party.

💫👀 #AusPol

So happy for #KerryStokes and the #7MediaGroup.

Bazza brings so much to this important position; height, good looks, a long history of yuckie choices. Sure to succeed.

Will Bazza get on with the Liberal guy on the ABC's election night coverage, who bemoaned the Liberal's #GunControlLaws from post-#PortArthurMassacre days?
Leave that for Kerry to decide?

Let's hope they don't keep going to the left.

#WAVotes

We did and now Bazza is Leader of the State Parliamentary Liberal Party.

💫👀 #AusPol

So happy for #KerryStokes and the #7MediaGroup.

Bazza brings so much to this important position; height, good looks, a long history of yuckie choices. Sure to succeed.

Will Bazza get on with the Liberal guy on the ABC's election night coverage, who bemoaned the Liberal's #GunControlLaws from post-#PortArthurMassacre days?
Leave that for Kerry to decide?

Let's hope they don't keep going to the left.

#WAVotes

We did and now Bazza is Leader of the State Parliamentary Liberal Party.

💫👀 #AusPol

So happy for #KerryStokes and the #7MediaGroup.

Bazza brings so much to this important position; height, good looks, a long history of yuckie choices. Sure to succeed.

Will Bazza get on with the Liberal guy on the ABC's election night coverage, who bemoaned the Liberal's #GunControlLaws from post-#PortArthurMassacre days?
Leave that for Kerry to decide?

Let's hope they don't keep going to the left.

@IndyMediaAus

#WAVotes
Well the loss of control is something.

Negotiation with a range of parties?
This is not democracy as we know it Jim.
But surely they're all in thrall to the mining companies?
Let's wait for developments Captain. It was said to take 18 months to corrupt a newly elected NSW state government. Surely sandgropers will be less suseptible.

(Article is a dogs breakfast. But at least not a whiff of AI.)

It seems unlikely but it would be funny to see this happen again: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-21/wa-election-results-leave-liberals-in-race-for-opposition-status/105081532

The smart play would be for the Liberals and Nationals to sign another opposition alliance agreement and be jointly recognised as the opposition again, since neither has very many seats individually. If that happened, I can't really see the Nationals making the case that they should be the senior party this time around.

#AusPol #WAVotes

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.

#AusPol #WAVotes

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...

#WAPol
Some of you might have seen #CaseyBriggs on the ABC #WAVotes prog.

Casey had a subtle little whinge about COVID lockdowns and state isolations.

Hopefully Casey's ignorant and doesn't understand what those lockdowns got us.

Or maybe he is a shit who just doesn't care?

"Regardless, 20 more Australians are dying each day than before the pandemic due to Covid. It sits five times higher than the annual road toll, and 10 times higher than seasonal flu deaths."

https://archive.md/TSEHU

🤣 I remember the ABC commentator from 2021 saying the entire opposition could fit in a Toyota Corolla... Now the WA Libs need to upsize!

(P.S, this is satire. The Belltower Times is like a WA Betoota Advocate.)

WA Liberals win enough seats to finally justify buying a 2014 Toyota Tarago
https://www.thebelltowertimes.com/wa-liberals-can-finally-justify-buying-a-2014-toyota-tarago/
#WAVotes #WAPol #BelltowerTimes

@Ex_spurt

You ask: "Where do they find these people?" #WAvotes #auspol

Under a rock, & one thing we know for sure, it's not Uluru.

@fixatedpersonsunit there was a ton of that during the speeches last night.

#WAVotes

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

Well, the one positive for someone other than WA Labor tonight is that the VIC Libs are no longer the most unsuccessful Liberal Party in modern Australian history

#auspol #wavotes

Oh, that was gold. They cut off Mettam's concession speech for Cook's victory speech

#auspol #wavotes

So, ABC is framing this as a "could have been" victory for Mettam.

I'm sorry, but that was never going to happen. It was meant to be a rebuild election. One seat is not "rebuilding"

#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.

#WAVotes #WAPol

Hahahaha, why the fuck would she have a victory speech prepared?

That's just bullshit!

#auspol #wavotes

That room is rather blue. Anyone would think they have IV drug problems

#auspol #wavotes

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

Did I learn my lesson? Of course not. I offered Tony Abbott a Green HTV at a polling place one time after that — Bradford by election I think? He LAUGHED (you can hear his fake laugh now can’t you)
#wavotes

Oh god, Basil is fucked!

Please make it so!

#auspol #wavotes

"bar scene from Star Wars"

Someone disappear David Speers

#auspol #wavotes

So glad to hear Antony Green pronounce Albany correctly #WAVotes #WAPol #Albany #Kinjarling

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.

#WAPol #WAVotes #AusPol #RogerCook #AntonyGreen

Ugh. Not Basil! #WAPol #WAVotes #BasilZempilas

Ugh. Not Basil! #WAPol #WAVotes #BasilZempilas

Ugh. Not Basil! #WAPol #WAVotes #BasilZempilas

Ugh. Not Basil! #WAPol #WAVotes #BasilZempilas

Ugh. Not Basil! #WAPol #WAVotes #BasilZempilas

Turns out the community hall where my #karate club trains is a polling station.

Not one flyer-hander-outer offered me a flyer... I must have looked too scary in my karate gi 🥋

#oss #WAStateElection #WesternAustralia #WAVotes #DemocracySausage #shotokan

My fellow Western Australians - here's the most important thing you need to know about voting on Saturday: the Democracy Sausage list!

Oh, and stay away from those Group M Independents. They're all cookers, crypto bros and suspected transphobes.

https://democracysausage.org/western_australian_election_2025/m/@-33.52294,115.7799,z8.548566/

#WAElection #WAStateElection #WesternAustralia #Perth #DemocracySausage #WAVotes #Sandgroper

Spent the evening researching candidates and parties for the WA State election, which is next week. Glad I did. If nothing else I have a better idea who to put last, but it's a tough choice! #WesternAustralia #wavotes #wapol #WAStateElection #RogerCook #LibbyMettam