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Melbourne Katılım Mart 2011
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Seeing one nation push the greens out of the ABC’s seat count graphic
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South Australia being 30 minutes behind
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Austerlitz 😭😭 why are conservatives like this
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Of course the ONE DAY I decide to go cruising in the hidden tunnel under bourke st mall I'm wearing my jocks with holes in them 😔
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The Carlton brutalist carpark. Still standing. Resplendent in the rain. To some people’s disgust
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Didn’t call them the greens political party, ngmi
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🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer has written to all Labour MPs to explain why Labour lost the Gorton and Denton by-election Dear Colleagues, The result in Gorton and Denton is deeply disappointing. Instead of a Labour MP who can be a local champion delivering for Gorton and Denton alongside a Labour Government and a Labour mayor, the people of Gorton and Denton now have a representative who is more interested in dividing people than uniting them. We have to learn lessons from that, and we will. I know this is a tough result for our movement but I still want to thank you for everything you did to support our brilliant candidate Angeliki Stogia. She did a fantastic job and Gorton and Denton deserved to have her as their MP. We’ve seen the true colours of Zack Polanski’s Greens in this campaign. The Greens were able to capitalise on an endorsement from George Galloway to win over enough voters to push them over the line. Their willingness to welcome Galloway's divisive, sectarian politics is a sign that the Greens are not the harmless environmentalists they pretend to be, and their position on legalising all drugs shows how unstable this electoral coalition is. It cannot survive a general election campaign. It hurts, but this is the kind of result that we have often seen parties of government face. In by-elections people can make their voice heard without risking a change of government. I get it: people are rightly impatient to see the change they voted for. It’s my job to make sure that happens. And I’m working day in, day out to see it through. Over the coming months, people will feel the benefit of the long-term decisions this government is taking. Look at the good economic news we’ve had in the past week: inflation and borrowing coming down, retail sales and business confidence rising, energy bills falling. And look at the policies that are going to make a difference in people’s lives in the coming months: the landmark Employment Rights Act, money off energy bills, the cruel two-child limit scrapped, more free breakfast clubs opening, Pride in Place funding coming through, NHS waiting lists continuing to fall. It will show what we’ve been saying from the outset of this year: the country is turning a corner. These are all Labour policies, putting Labour values into action - policies no other party would or could deliver. The Greens may have won here, but they simply do not have the resources, the activist base or the local knowledge to replicate this victory across the country. We’ve seen that before. We’ve seen it with the Lib Dems, who have often won mid-term by-elections against both the Conservatives and Labour, but never been able to come close to winning nationally. We’ve seen it with George Galloway, who won two mid-term by elections but held neither of those seats in a general election. We will continue to warn of the risk the Greens pose: the risk of extreme policies like legalising all drugs and pulling out of NATO that most voters strongly reject, and the risk of splitting the progressive vote so that Reform come through the middle. The next election is too important to let that happen. It’s a fight we can win, and we’re going to win it. Best, Keir

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It’s weird how Brunswick west and Brunswick east get the Brunswick name even though they’re not very Brunswick but Coburg doesn’t get named Brunswick north even though it’s literally just more Brunswick. But that’s okay
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Imagine you’re the PM and you wake up at the pearly gates and you’re like What happened? And God’s like You know Shen Yun? And you’re like “China before communism?” And God looks away wistfully like “5,000 years of divine culture, expressed through breathtaking music and dance…”
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#BREAKING: The prime minister was forced to evacuate The Lodge last night due to a bomb threat linked to performances in Australia by a classical Chinese dance and music group which is banned in China. #live-blog-post-263538" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">abc.net.au/news/2026-02-2…

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