In contrast to Maureen, all my friends & family are devastated that the average Australian doesn't care that our Pacific neighbours are losing their homes & in some cases, their whole country.

I'm also devastated that so many Australians were frightened by the LNP & Clive Palmer's UAP fear campaigns, believing the lies told, like that Labor would introduce Death Duties, & so many other nuanced propaganda techniques used by the Libs, UAP & the far right wing media machine.

I'm disappointed by Australians. What happened to the Australia when people were fearless, tough & forward looking? Now they seem to be frightened to lose what little, or much, they have worked for & bugger having a fair society. If I were a casual waiting tables at your local cafe, I'd go on strike today! No, it seems, I don't deserve extra pay to work on Sundays while the better off brunch.

PS - Clive Palmer is a thieving rat. He's spent all that money on the election (in cahoots with the Liberal Government) but leaves it to Consolidated Revenue (my taxes) to pay $70million out to Palmer's workers. Palmer still owes about $7million to his former workers. What a thieving hypocrite & shame on you Maureen, for saying how great you think Palmer is.

The real tragedy is this: will we get more of the same from Morrison? That is, iIneptness to lead his Party on policy, disunity in the Liberal Party, in-fighting with the Liberals & Nationals, no consideration to young people & no action on climate change?

Shame on Australia - we will now become more like Trump's America: a mean, competitive, violent, fearful, racist society where the underprivileged are treated like dogs.

Dear Hoohoo

The LNP have a very sound climate policy 

they are going to meet and better the emission targets agreed at the Paris summit 

how good is that !!!

Unfortunately, the coal we export isn't included in Australia's emission charts, & Australia is the biggest producer of coal in the world. Australia is the highest per capita emitter. We are simply sticking our heads in the sand to say Australia is doing our part, when we are fundamentally responsible when all our coal is burned somewhere overseas. We've only got one atmosphere hello!

Australia is piss weak & a rogue state when it comes to contributing to harmful, global climate change. Meanwhile, our Pacific neighbours are losing their homes & in some cases, their whole country. Shame on you, Australia!

Hoohoo, you expected too much of your fellow Australians, especially the boomers. The plus side is they will evenrtually drop off the perch and the millennials will balance the scales. What goes around, comes around. In the meantime, spare a thought for the vulnerable who will continue to be on the rough end of the pineapple.

Hoo Hoo,

You may as well save your breath (or finger energy). Last night showed us that the majority of Australians don’t care a damn about climate change. So depressing....

Farside,

We perhaps don’t have time left for the young to overtake the old with positive action to save this planet. Last night in Australia we failed our young people.

NY19

im sorry to disagree but last night we did our young people and future generations an enormous favour 

the young learned a lesson in democracy not fascism or climate change terrorism

we now have a responsible government who will act practically on climate change , economic management and social responsibility rather than promise heaven and earth like Shorten did for the sake of his ambition to be coronated as PM

Maureen, the fascists just hunkered down! Democracy is shot in the heart when propaganda & lies win the day at the election box.

Climate change terrorism is washing over the gardens & homes of our Pacific neighbours in Tonga, Fiji, Kiribati Islands, New Guinea & Samoa. The Australian electorate just armed the real terrorists with more weapons.

The Liberal government has been a useless bystander when it comes to REAL climate action. They've already proved they are totally irresponsible on this issue.

I'm not a fan of Shorten & I'm glad he's no longer the leader of the Labor Party, who thought they had to show unity if they were to win government. Idiots! Look at the Liberals, backstabbing sitting Prime Ministers left right & centre on their way to glory! (with the help of the right wing biased media).

I personally think future political analysts will benchmark the Australian 2019 election as the election when media overtook democracy, much like Trump's election in 2016.

“So I take it Hoohoo you so hate this country you will emigrate?”

Oh boy, what a leap you make Tamwin. Does it occur to you that Hoohoo perhaps may love this country, indeed this planet, more than you? We had a great Carbon Pricing Scheme under Gillard and the Greens designed to convert to an ETS that the Chinese have adopted. Indeed, the Chinese thought we were crazy to ditch it. Had we kept it we would be so much better off now both financially and morally. We should have stayed on track back then to convert to better energy sources for our future but the LNP got rid of it and has fart arsed around since then to produce nothing of value. They have dragged the chain, given us nothing to feel positive about in relation to alleviating the price of energy or saving our planet. 

Well, Tanwin, I'll believe 98% of expert scientists before I believe greedy people who won't let anything stand in the way of them & their riches. If you're so worried about the increasing price of electricity, I suggest you invest in solar panels. My last quarterly bill was $55 & that included paying about $1.60 per day ($144) for being connected to the grid.

I'm a nature person & I sincerely love Australia & her Country. I have an intimate relationship with this place & I'll never abandon her.

I very much dislike the greedy dickheads who control our government, & I'm not just talking about the politicians.

You are so right, Ny19 - Australia blew her opportunity to price carbon & become a leader instead of a sucker. Like you say, it could've been an income-earner for Australia but as we know, this government doesn't want to earn money from renewables because they renewables don't make huge donations to political parties like the fossil fuel industry does.

It all comes down to money. Frighten the people & sit back & watch those corporate profits keep on rolling in! (then shuffle off as much as you can to the Caymen Islands, so you don't even return your share of tax back to the country you are raping). They don't care about our country at all, just the bottom line. In fact, I call them traitors to our Country.

Yes ABE, I am blessed & truly rich because I love, & I am loved in return, by many.

Please excuse my acid tongue while I get this shit off my liver!

blaming boomers is ridiculous.  who has the overseas trips every year, who spends hundreds on design clothes, who eats out at expensive restaurants and pays $10 or more for a cocktail...certainly not the baby boomers I know. Who are staying at home longer with parents supposedly to save money (but many don't) yet getting all their meals and washing done by long suffering mothers.  Who don't bother saving because they want a life style.  Read about one guy who had saved $30K then decided it would rather spend it on an overseas trip and bugger the house deposit.

Thanks, Leonie. I think many from the flower generation just hardened their hearts, when all the free sex dried up!

I still call myself a young hippie, even though I'm a business person.

And ardnher, I expect your children are just waiting to inherit the house, then they'll learn how to use the washing machine. Of course, you can just tell them to do their own washing now, rather than having them wish you'd move on. Force them to grow up - it's your duty as a parent. It's your choice to baby them.

no one living with us!!

Yes Suze 

good riddance to Kerryn Phelps 

labor will get either Abalone or Plerberscite as their next leader . No matter who I hope they drop their retiree tax and negative gearing policies 

Good onya Dave Sharma!! 

One thing I learned during this campaign.. Turnbull and his couple of mates actually belonged in the ALP or Greens. I got a robo call from Alex Turnbull (GetUp), he sounded like a spoiled kid.

Turnbull was in the wrong party as for his son Alex...what a vindictive person..note he closed his Twitter account as soon as the election went the wrong way.

Alex Turnbull - immature git

LNP did the right thing getting rid of his useless dad . Malcolm we believe was a labor/green plant 

giving "anyone" an open cheque is nothing I would ever do...hence I did not vote for them

LOL Farside. What an interesting snippet of our history.

The “Brisbane line” was an alleged plan to abandon Northern Australia in the event of a Japanese invasion. The allegation was made during a Labor election campaign in October 1942 when Edward Ward, the Minister for Labour and National Services accused the previous government of planning this strategy.

The accusation was unsubstantiated by Ward and firmly denied by Menzies and all members of the previous government. The allegations created much public controversy and led to a Royal Commission of Inquiry in June 1943. Mr Justice Lowe was appointed Royal Commissioner. The terms of the commission were to focus on whether any document concerning the so called “Brisbane Line” was missing from the official files and if so what was the nature of this document.

The Royal Commission found the documents to be complete and that no such plan had been official policy under the Menzies government.

https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/encyclopedia/homefront/brisbane_line

RnR, many consider the Royal Commission a cover up. There was plenty of circumstantial evidence to support existence of the Brisbane Line (an imaginary line from Brisbane to Adelaide) - common talk, lack of troops in the north, transferring the American Army division to New Caledonia, no recall of AIF etc all of which added to a sense of defeatism that surprised MacArthur upon his arrival. He mentioned it in a speech was briefed on the  and decided to take the fight against the Japanese to PNG rather than rely upon defense.

Plenty of article of Trove from the day and looking back while it was still fresh in the mind

 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/71687511/6555663

So nice to know Plain Logic that you dont accept our democracy and I take it you too will be emigrating soon?

Although still in a state of denial Labor did worse this election with a mere 33% of the vote compared to 2016.

For fear of being shouted down and ridiculed, I suspect the 'silent majority' just patiently waited and had their say at the ballot box

Who cares who leads labor

they should never get back in power

australians have had enough of labor and greens 

could not care less who leads Labor...but if they put  Bowen in as leader..they will be in opposition at the next election as well.  He was their policy man!!

Yes that is another continuing expense we have from the Hawke Keating era