The 'live' results on the abc news live coverage have been updated after a couple of hours of just sitting there static - Labour = 81 seats!
EDIT: Now 84 seats.
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I've done my duty in the Tropical Soup π«‘ things are far more streamlined here because we're lucky to have any kind of opposition at all in the first place, and there's only one house in the government, and it's just FPTP without preferential voting... Got in and out in about 3.5 minutes and used an inked stamp to press X on one of two boxes.
I wish I could vote in Australia but that likely won't happen until my mum passes away and I can finally let go of my original citizenship. So for now I will live vicariously through everyone else - and have to tolerate 7 hours of uncertainty on the flight that leaves just as polls close π
Antony Green said it so it's true!
Change of plans. Weather shit, so will quokka another day. Have caught train to Freo
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Oh Antony Green. Bless
voting done, no sossage, safe labor seat, no liberal canvassers
ewaste taken to drop off centre
bunnings run done, got paint for furniture, semi gloss kara sea colour and some new brushes
walk down beach , today there was a bloke in a straw boater hat standing out on the sand flats playing guitar to his dog
a little bit of gardening done
time for coffee and a little lunch
You know that bit where Mr Burns laughs at the injured Irishman....? Can someone redo that but with Dutton losing?
Edit- this one
Home made kofta kebabs, retro video games, music and cat cuddles.
Heaven.
Iβm already stressing about results. What if I somehow miscalculated and helped allow dipshits in. Too late now.
I wish I could distract myself
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Happy voting day, everyone. Eat your sausage
Postal vote ready to be witnessed and mailed right after, and my antibiotic script here to fill. Iβm really not feeling tops but need to sort these things out, try and get out of these weeds.
I fumbled an earlier dental appointment and was extremely upset about it but touch wood I can be seen this week.
TW dental, pain management, pain meds
I am a bit worried about pain management post extraction though. I think Iβll be refusing the prescription painkillers and wondering if I will be able to power through with just Panadol and ibuprofen.
For what itβs worth the root canals were surprisingly bearable, couple of Panadol the first few days and fine at least until the infection returned. But this is a second molar extraction on the bottom jaw under local and the roots may be a bit oddly shaped. My jaw dislocates under pressure. And Iβm fretting a bit about dry socket.
I do know not to take ibuprofen too soon after due to the risk of interfering with clotting.
My train ride home intersected with a bucks party. Nice boys
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My first choice of polling booth had no democracy sausages so of course I left to find another with them.
The entrance to this polling booth is quite narrow so I got assaulted with how to vote pamphlets on entry with nowhere to run.
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