Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham Twitter profile

Pinned Tweet

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

23 days

Why I've Quit Doing Paid Election Coverage For The Mercury #politas

1

4

30

Last Seen Profiles

@shion_m_art

@kay_lindberg

@403pa

@TobiasPoule

@anandrathi12

@Mariann19042022

@ct_sheehan

@LZavit

@aguswina5

@asianpuke

@only_jjh_

@MrsProblems1

@marshall_ivan12

@dolbyaround_

@WandaHarron

@hungstepdad

@womichi_

@antl_yuu

@goserverless

@4cdxyc9x8x

@MBOOTHMaddy

@ANON256SC04

@Blockdaemon

@bbxrml

@voskat55

@ri2seok

@FeliciaClover

@menrvasofia

@TheDavidZhou

@1291937a

@Vittzzzzzz

@Abhi_09_11

@Mateusz_lis1

@123BN7HEQ4MyxEM

@AnowaAdjah

@kaosu_huran

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

Following a #Newspoll with ALP 36% Chris Uhlmann said "neither [major party] can form government in their own right from there." The ABC has now called that Labor has won a majority from 32.8%.

79

298

2K

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

"“Polling has shown that the overwhelming majority of Australians agree with my position on women’s sport." (Deves) Not aware of any remotely reliable polling on this issue.

121

152

1K

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

3 years

Haven't noticed this before but had every Wentworth ALP 2019 voter preferenced Kerryn Phelps ahead of Liberals, Phelps would still be in the parliament and Dave Sharma would not.

25

224

1K

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

#Essential Albanese net approval +41 (59-18)

19

128

1K

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

#Newspoll 54-46 to ALP

33

217

991

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

Incomplete list of egging attempts on Australian MPs: Hughes 1917 (hit) Fadden 1949 (hit) Menzies 1949 1951 (both missed) Fraser 1981 (missed) Hewson 1993 (target caught egg) Gillard 2010 (big miss) Anning 2019 (hit) Morrison 2019 (bounced off) Kelly 2022 (hit)

59

177

916

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

3 months

This is disinformation of an exceptionally stupid kind. 1. In most Aus seats the two major parties finish 1 and 2 so neither's preferences are distributed.

71

112

903

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

1 year

The Federal Court of Australia has today and in very clear terms upheld the AEC's interpretation that ticks are formal Yes votes at referendums and crosses are informal. This is as I have said all along a matter for Parliament, the AEC must follow the law and is doing so.

35

166

790

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

Just looking at how few of Labor's seat wins are even remotely close it becomes clear that Labor has won this Victorian election by an enormous margin. #VicVotes

7

131

752

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

So, someone looked in the VoteCompass mirror (such as it is) and found themselves much closer to their self-appointed nemesis party than they were happy with?

38

47

686

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

Ipsos 53-47 to ALP.

21

95

671

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

Just a reminder ahead of the upcoming Victorian election: I don't care who you vote for but vote below the line in the upper house and help defend democracy by disrupting preference harvesting. #springst

16

244

668

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

NOTICE: Prominent account holders who tweet statements of the form 'a vote for party X is a vote for party Y' should expect that if I see those and have the time I will report them to the AEC and Twitter for electoral disinfo. Voters decide their own preferences.

30

109

659

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

1 year

More boutique trash pseudopsephology from the Australian embarrassing itself again. If. The. Voting. System. Was. Different. People. Would. Have. Voted. Differently.

ham 🪴

@hamhammer27

1 year

This is an INSANE take from the Australian - imagine thinking the coalition lost because of preferential voting holy hell

113

56

638

53

103

631

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

#Newspoll 54-46 to ALP

15

109

611

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

1 year

Good morning to Australian poll deniers.

62

90

598

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

3 months

It aint Leo who is desperate for attention here

11

24

588

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

Haven't seen it yet but many people saying that Fran Kelly asked Penny Wong why the polls are close. They're not. They're less close at the same point than they were in 1996 and 2013 and similar to 2007.

28

143

575

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

3 months

Yet another example of Australian media pie chart skills that would fail a primary school assignment.

Melanie Bracewell

@meladoodle

3 months

lmao the PROPORTIONS on this pie graph???

225

328

4K

20

134

582

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

1 year

Good morning also to those who tried to import Trump's rubbish into one of the world's best administered democracies with false claims that the AEC was plotting to deny No victory. Form an orderly queue and pin public apologies to your accounts.

38

75

565

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

3 years

#Newspoll Albanese level with Morrison as "better PM" as Coalition "struggles"

14

100

562

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

Ex-Senator Amanda Stoker: "In Queensland’s senate contest, I received the highest individual below-the-line support of any candidate, despite not running a [BTL] campaign." False. She was fifth on BTLs, way behind Hanson, Watt, Allman-Payne and McGrath.

Here’s the real reason the Liberals lost the election

The lesson of the Morrison government’s election defeat is that caving to leftist positions might have changed the subject, but it didn’t win votes, writes this former senator and new The Australian...

www.afr.com

33

162

546

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

5 months

I'm totally against the under-16s social media ban campaign, another illiberal morals panic by clueless politicians egged on by grifters and wowsers that will be unworkable and do more harm than good if it goes anywhere.

27

126

547

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

6 years

#Newspoll 2PP poll to poll changes for mid-term change of PM: Hawke to Keating +2 (est) Rudd to Gillard +1 Gillard to Rudd +6 Abbott to Turnbull +5 Turnbull to Morrison -5

23

363

520

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

25 days

This thread is atrocious, doesn't actually mention preferences in the opening post but has acted as a magnet for far too many people saying we should scrap preferences.

83

31

538

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

Sheesh. This is spectacular incompetence that this utterly braindead garbage by Hartcher has been published. Learn how elections work. Wait until the bloody count has finished before declaring Labor lost 600,000 votes and the Greens only gained 4000.

Australia didn’t turn left. It wised up

The Australian people overall did not shift to the left. Any political party that assumes so will be acting on a false signal.

www.smh.com.au

30

143

512

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 months

Everyone with an Australian flag in their profile who opposes preferential voting is a traitor masquerading as a patriot.

38

54

525

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

3 years

#Newspoll 53-47 to ALP.

32

90

510

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

Total nonsense by Greg Sheridan: "In truth, thousands of voters do not take seriously the allocation of their second preferences, but the parties, Labor or Green, print how-to-vote cards that most of their voters follow automatically." This is not truth.

40

93

509

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

This article reports Liberal internal polling that if true suggests Frydenberg is in big trouble (42% primary) and Wilson (37%) is toast.

Liberal polling predicts losses for Josh Frydenberg and Tim Wilson

As majority government looks further out of reach for the Coalition, internal polling suggests prominent Liberals will lose their seats.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

41

123

506

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

Sorry to have to rant about this now and then but with unemployment at a remarkably low rate I find it utterly unforgiveable that politicians are continuing to subject jobseekers to so-called "mutual obligation", let alone that this includes forced in-person interviews.

10

106

509

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

Very pleased to inform the House that I have won the 2022 Tasmanian Open (chess) with a score of 6/6. My 13th win of the title (seven shared) but my first with a perfect score (albeit including a forfeit win) and the 6th perfect score in the history of the event.

27

20

497

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

Henderson's piece is multiply woeful; he's another one who should be dragged before the Clue Fairy to show cause why he should not be banned from writing about elections and psephology for life.

Sorceror43

@sorceror43

2 years

Gerard Henderson in today's Oz says Lib prefs helped Greens win in Griffith. The Libs were not distributed as they came 2nd on primaries. Labor came 3rd, and their prefs helped the Greens win. @kevinbonham

8

19

98

23

112

493

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

Looks like the Reps seat tally is done; changes from occupier/notional (not counting one abolished seat): ALP 77 (+8) L-NP 58 (-17) IND 10 (+7) GRN 4 (+3) KAP 1 (=) CA 1 (=) UAP 0 (-1)

29

131

494

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

Have now heard Greg Mirabella's comments about preferential voting directly. He was specifically discussing teals and claims they are a case of the preference system being gamed by minor parties and Labor to make Liberals lose. This is complete nonsense.

31

101

492

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

4 years

The AEC is considering federally deregistering the United Australia Party, the Christian Democrats and Fraser Anning's Conservative Nationalists on the basis of insufficient membership.

25

128

472

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

Big move to Labor in Bennelong. Now 50.9 on @PollBludger projection. Also improving in Deakin. I have Labor on 72 plus five likely and four possible. Need a lot to go wrong to not get a majority out of that.

7

102

479

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

This is false. The incumbent PM having resigned, the GG can appoint as PM whoever in the GG's opinion is most likely to command the confidence of the House. The GG is under no constraint to wait for results to be final.

Gerrie Hoogland

@WatchtowerRome2

2 years

How can @AlboMP be sworn in as Prime Minister while votes are still being counted? The election results need to first be formally declared by the @aec .

134

49

302

13

69

468

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

5 years

So, if states lock down non-essential activities including businesses then what is the sense of still requiring Centrelink recipients to look for jobs? It's absurd, in most fields nobody will be hiring. Suspend mutual obligation completely now.

Julian Abbott 💉💉💉💉 💉

@JulianBAbbott

5 years

BREAKING: Victoria and NSW will push for a lockdown of non-essential activities, including businesses. This will include not going to restaurants and pubs. Victoria will also push for schools to be shut from Tuesday. If they do not agree, Victoria will go it alone.

23

153

460

16

140

455

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

3 months

Get a real election system UK.

Political Election Projections

@tencor_7144

3 months

Astonishing: Conservatives GAIN Leicester East from Labour after too many left-leaning independents ran to split the left-leaning vote

38

73

403

16

45

470

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

Newspoll kept finding this, over and over and over, and people who wanted to believe otherwise just kept on ignoring the data.

Ben Eltham

@beneltham

2 years

Maybe, and I’m just throwing this out there, Dan Andrews is not actually that unpopular in Victoria

426

901

11K

8

70

449

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

3 months

Does anybody who knows a thing about politics edit or even read this overpaid hack's trash prior to publication? Claims Colston was the last Labor defector. Not even close.

24

78

433

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

#Newspoll Vic (state) 54.5 to ALP

23

75

420

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

3 years

I don't know if the word "censored" was Leunig's own, but it is not censorship if a newspaper declines to purchase your cartoon. It is censorship if the government bans it, which they haven't.

17

70

403

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

6 months

Anne Twomey on proposed job-sharing federal MPs: unconstitutional, illegal and the intending candidates don't have a clue what they are talking about.

Can Australian federal politicians job-share?

A recent media release that two people propose to stand as job-sharing candidates for the electorate of Higgins at the next Australian federal election has r...

www.youtube.com

29

104

409

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

The Australian Constitution should be amended such that every time a person is on hold to Centrelink for over an hour, the parliament is dissolved.

17

68

404

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

#Newspoll 53-47

26

94

395

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

This is hilarious. While One Nation bang on about multiple voting, one of their candidates is alleged to be a multiple candidate (in two seats for two different parties).

casey briggs

@CaseyBriggs

2 years

The AEC has referred Malcolm Heffernan to the AFP, for allegedly nominating in two electorates with two different parties

30

128

361

20

146

396

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

4 months

Hollie Hughes loses NSW Senate preselection to Jess Collins. Hughes was endorsed by Dutton, Price, Cash and Paul Murray.

NSW Political Alerts

@NSWPolAlerts

4 months

CONFIRMED. HOLLIE HUGHES ROLLED FOR COLLINS.

10

9

81

38

98

400

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

1 year

Poll denialism so extreme in response to the current Newspoll that I am even seeing the old Newspoll-only-calls-landlines chestnut back.

42

24

391

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

Does the AFR win some kind of award if its coverage embarrasses it every single day of this campaign? This is abysmal poll interpretation here. This is the Marianas Trench of bad.

Coalition holds ground in Queensland amid coal fight, poll shows

Queensland is the best-performing state for the Morrison government at this stage, boosting a Coalition belief that it will hold all its seats there.

www.afr.com

26

101

386

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

3 months

Here we go. I mentioned it in my article because as soon as Payman quit Labor the people calling for her to be S44d seemed likely to suddenly switch from people with Australian flags in their username to "senior Labor figures".

Citizenship revenge: Labor targets rebel senator’s status

Senior Labor figures are raising Fatima Payman’s Afghan citizenship as a risk to her remaining in the Senate because of a potential breach of section 44 of the Constitution, after she quit the ALP...

www.theaustralian.com.au

18

54

390

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

5 years

Labor intending to challenge #Chisholm result. Will be an excellent test case for application of laws against misleading electors in relation to the casting of their vote.

ABC News

@abcnews

5 years

Historic Liberal victory in Chisholm faces legal challenge over alleged dirty tactics

19

109

204

18

147

375

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

3 months

Every conscience vote the party has allowed in the last 28 years was because some of its own were feeling guided by god.

Patricia Karvelas

@PatsKarvelas

3 months

New from me: Payman expected to quit the ALP after caucus colleagues reveal she told them she was being guided by god on her Palestine floor crossing decision, shocking her colleagues #auspol

978

77

269

11

70

380

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

"Keneally said lingering resentment in south-west Sydney over last year's strict COVID-19 lockdowns was the decisive factor in her shock loss" Primary vote swings in Fowler/surrounds: McMahon ALP +2.5 Blaxland ALP -1.8 Werriwa ALP -8.2 Hughes ALP -8.2 Fowler ALP -18.6

41

62

371

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

Every single Twitter account that supports first past the post "voting" for Australia is one such account too many.

22

34

359

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

3 years

Look at this ridiculous rubbish by the Herald Sun besmirching the paper it is printed on again. Claims "a cliffhanger was the verdict" while reporting a poll that said otherwise and was correct.

🐧 Victorian Independence Movement 🐧

@VicIndyMovement

3 years

Imagine our surprise when we saw this in @theheraldsun this morning.

280

385

2K

24

71

350

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

5 months

The challenge is to watch this video and not be reminded of the previous Prime Minister.

'Emotional' day: Albanese plays down organiser's claims he lied at women's rally about invitation...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is playing down claims he lied, made by organisers of a march to end family violence, as comments made after an "emotional" day.

www.abc.net.au

56

42

354

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

3 months

"Penny Wong had to vote against marriage equality when there wasn’t a conscious [sic] vote on that." Yes well that was a massive problem right there.

Rogue senator ‘won’t create Mid-East peace’

West Australian Labor Left senator Louise Pratt has taken a swipe at Fatima Payman, declaring that crossing the floor on a Senate vote “is not going to create peace in the Middle East”, as a group of...

www.theaustralian.com.au

9

30

356

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

4 years

Flying foxes are not even in the same family as the bats believed to be involved in COVID-19. It's like wanting dogs banned because bears sometimes eat people.

9News Melbourne

@9NewsMelb

4 years

An outspoken Liberal MP is leading calls to move Melbourne's bat colony out of his Kew electorate. @andrew_lund #9News

266

40

137

19

133

342

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

5 years

Leyonhjelm excluded #nswvotes

48

58

337

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

4 years

I am pleased to advise the house that I have won the 2020 Tasmanian Open ( #chess ) on a score of 5.5/6, my 12th win of the title and the first time I have won the Championship and Open in the same year.

27

9

343

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

Oh and now it's a tie so the result of the debate is that Morrison won and Albanese won and neither won and Channel Nine should be permanently restrained by constitutional amendment from conducting any electoral/opinion process above the level of tuckshop monitor.

13

68

340

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

6 months

Tasmanian Labor. What on earth is it for? #politas

Adam Langenberg

@AdamLangenberg

6 months

Labor declared last night’s election lost at a state administrative committee meeting today. Party sources say that means there’s no path to a Labor minority government. Also makes the leadership vacant under party rules #politas

34

27

131

34

50

344

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

CALLED Lyons Mitchell (ALP) retain #politas

9

42

332

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

Labor shaping up towards 3 in WA Senate. That will be handy.

8

33

324

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 months

They had some hide to even ask.

Michael Koziol 🦢

@michaelkoziol

2 months

Breaking: the NSW Electoral Commission has REFUSED the Liberal Party's request for a one-week extension to nominate candidates for next month's council elections

184

406

3K

14

34

338

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

In #Brisbane the latest postals batch has broken to the Greens over Labor. Unlikely now that Labor will have a higher primary vote lead at the end of the primary vote count, and preference sampling shows that the current lead is clearly insufficient.

12

53

325

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

13 days

My view on this is parliamentary prayers should be abolished. I find hearing them embarrassing. I think they bring parliament into disrepute, both by honoring one set of beliefs above others and also by politicians reciting them then behaving poorly anyway. #politas

Rationalist Society

@AusRationalist

17 days

Although 50% of Tasmanians marked 'no religion' last Census, @TasmanianLabor is backing the continuation of daily Christian prayers in parliament, with @DeanWinterMP describing the practice as “an important mark of respect to the Christian faith”: #politas

5

9

18

24

53

337

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

1 month

It takes some skill to be wrong or misleading by omission in this many ways in a single tweet. 1. It wasn't a bill, it was a symbolic motion to consider a set of attitudes and claimed facts urgent.

16

59

334

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

A bit of a pointer to the Reps primary vote swing against Labor being partly caused by competition from teals and by increased field sizes: Labor currently has a swing to it in every mainland state Senate race.

9

83

326

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

5 years

Candidates known to have been disendorsed/resigned/withdrawn since election called: Liberal 8 National 1 Labor 2 One Nation 1 #ausvotes

12

197

310

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

Had our system coerced voters into into picking one of the top two candidates, as the USA's does, then Labor would have easily won the majority of the vote in this case. But we are better than that failed excuse for a democracy and we don't do that.

8

33

320

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

7 months

hahaha excellent

16

28

314

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

4 years

Internal so-called leaked (means not leaked) polling from the same company that had the Territory Alliance on course to govern the NT (they won one seat). Nothing useful to see here. #Springst

Poll reveals horror voter backlash against Labor Party

Daniel Andrews’ government has suffered a significant swing against it in five key marginal seats polled this week.

www.heraldsun.com.au

13

104

303

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

It is never too late to simply pass legislation rendering all aspects of spuriously so-called "mutual obligation" voluntary and unenforceable. These changes are turning accessing benefits into a sociopathic video game at a time when there has never been less reason for it.

ABC News

@abcnews

2 years

Federal Government says it's 'too late' to dump controversial changes to unemployment benefits

111

30

70

13

110

306

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

Nothing whatsoever to do with religious freedom. Culture warriors who want religious organisations to have unlimited rights to sack but don't want the likes of Thorburn to be sackable don't want freedom, they want religious hegemony. And they can't have it.

Sky News Australia

@SkyNewsAust

2 years

The shock departure of incoming Essendon CEO Andrew Thorburn just 30 hours following his appointment to the role has reignited the religious freedom debate.

16

3

9

10

81

305

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

1 year

#ResolvePM federal ALP 39 L-NP 30 Green 11 ON 6 UAP 1 IND 9 other 2. Resolve has much higher primary (+implied 2PP) vote leads for Labor than other polls. My 2PP estimate for these primaries 58.8 to ALP (-0.4) But remember the honeymoon is over because Simon Benson said so.

13

70

307

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

Barring any very late polls, my final national poll aggregate for 2022 (time weighted only, last-election prefs, no house effects or quality weightings, not a prediction, just a "this is what I say the polls say" is ... 53.2 to ALP. Average of final polls 52.8 to ALP.

15

58

302

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

Updates on #Gilmore here - Labor has hit the lead after big breaks on absents and dec prepolls. Can't project that these will keep breaking that way as they're probably from ALP-friendly adjacent booths, but makes it harder for Constance.

17

76

297

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

For everyone asking me when Newspoll will be out, it habitually appears on Friday night before the election. The customary release time is 9:30 pm.

11

56

292

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

Australia's last 14 consecutive state and federal elections have produced majority governments. At least eleven of these saw serious media speculation about a hung parliament as a possible outcome.

13

51

290

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

5 years

Pleased to advise the House that I am the 2020 Tasmanian Chess Champion, the 6th time I have won the title. Scored 6/7 with 5 wins 2 draws.

33

14

292

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

1 year

Note: I am now reserving the right to instantly, without warning, block people who advocate an upper age limit for voting in my mentions. Democracy is under enough duress without this rubbish adding to and legitimising it.

18

21

289

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

#Newspoll #Nswvotes 54.5-45.5 to Labor

28

73

282

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

Ecological fallacy alert - average voter in a Labor-won seat is not necessarily the same as average Labor voter.

Patrick Durkin

@patrickdurkin

2 years

Politics flipped two weeks ago. The average Labor voter now earns more than the average Coalition voter @apatrickafr #auspol

74

19

70

11

40

280

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

'I lost a hitherto safe Labor seat because of voter anger with lockdowns by a Liberal state government and a Liberal federal government' is an interesting take.

16

282

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

People may have noticed that I use the word "ridiculous" rather a lot but there is so much stuff out there that simply is ridiculous. I give you today's first pseudopsephologist, Senator Canavan.

Teals had less votes than One Nation and United Australia

At last week’s election the major parties recorded their lowest ever vote.

www.couriermail.com.au

43

54

277

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

So Essential is out tomorrow and PVO has tweeted it is 51-49 and then that it's not a guess but Essential doesn't do 2PPs in that format, so it would have to be converted at the least. Hmmm.

14

29

281

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

4 months

ALL MEDIA COMMENTING RE KOOYONG TAKE NOTE The following has now gone up on Antony Green's article re the draft redistribution.

13

74

281

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

3 months

Traitors who support first past the post for Australia frequently whinge about Labor scraping a majority off 32.6%. We have another UK case tonight of a >100 seat majority under FPP off only a few percent more.

11

26

277

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

1 year

#Newspoll Voice to Parliament Yes 38 No 53

55

25

272

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

Gemma Tognini is another usual suspect who is wrong, writes me. Labor won a majority off a slightly lower primary vote than the Coalition because preferences overall favoured it, but that always happens and would have happened with or without any "deals".

Sky News Australia

@SkyNewsAust

2 years

Anthony Albanese became Prime Minister because of preferences deals, not because he or the ALP were the nation’s clear favourite. Australians gave a massive vote of no confidence to both the majors, writes Gemma Tognini.

596

74

346

15

53

264

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

Oh no it wasn't. The sentence continued "despite a late surge in support for the Coalition in the final days [..]" The main evidence given for this supposed surge was (i) Liberal Party internals (ii) a Resolve poll that had gone out of field the previous Sunday.

Chip Le Grand

@Melbchief

2 years

A lot has been made of the headline on the lead story of our election morning paper which read: "Labor Under Siege.'' Fair cop -- the headline wasn't our best. As the first paragraph began: "Labor is on track to retain power in Victoria...." That was the story.

41

5

59

9

79

267

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

3 years

Since insulting Australians is apparently a bad thing now (per PM's comments re proposed vax payment) when will this government scrap "mutual obligation" which is among the most insulting and appalling bureaucracies in Australian history?

11

78

262

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

"These numbers are the official Australian Electoral Commission figures from late on Friday afternoon." From an incomplete count, you overpaid twit.

3

18

265

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

4 months

Hard to know where to start with this hot mess. For starters, teals are not Greens, we've seen a bunch of examples of them not-Greensing in recent Gaza motions. Teals are much more like what were the Democrats.

40

47

270

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

2 years

Albanese wins Seven "pub test" debate verdict from "undecided voters" 50-34, 16% undecided Macquarie 50-25 Chisholm 52-35 Lilley 54-41 Boothby 52-32 Hasluck 44-44 Solomon 50-25 Bass 52-32

19

72

263

Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham

1 year

Absolutely furious again with the dysfunctional state of Australia's welfare bureaucracy and the impact that this has on actual people.

7

53

264