From The Australian:
At least 10 Queensland seats are at risk of falling to One Nation at the next state election, with LNP electorates most vulnerable.
An analysis by The Australian of the performance of Pauline Hanson’s party at the July federal election — where it contested 12 lower house seats — identifies the hot spots and will intensify the major parties’ concerns about the re-emergence of her political force in Queensland.
It reveals there are 13 Queensland seats containing six or more federal voting booths where One Nation secured at least 20 per cent of the first-preference vote. In some pockets of the electorates, the resurgent party easily scored more than one-third of first preferences.
It’s probably nothing, Malcolm, stick to your “don’t disturb real estate” agenda. The Greens have an answer, from Domainfax:
Greens leader Richard Di Natale has called on Malcolm Turnbull to stand up to “right wing dinosaurs” and legalise marriage equality, saying Mr Turnbull will lose the next election if he doesn’t.
…”Be a leader, stand up, let’s have a free vote in the parliament, and let’s get this thing done.”
Turnbull is going to lose the election anyway. Declining standards of living ensure it. So the next Labor government will quite rightly bring in gay marriage equality.
What they won’t succeed in doing on current policies is turning back the rise of “right wing dinosaurs” unless they also reverse declining standards of living.
As such, hate will swell for all minority groups: green, pink, brown, yellow, every colour of liberalism.
