netvegetable
2010-09-21 21:40:02 UTC
So much for the government being illegitimate.
http://vtr.aec.gov.au/
This despite what some people propagandised ......
Barnaby Joyce: “We’d won the two-party preferred vote by the time the
independents made their decision.” (Lateline, 7/9).
Andrew Bolt: “Labor won fewer votes, fewer seats of its own and less of
the two-party preferred vote.” (Herald Sun, 8/9).
Alan Jones: “Is it a healthy democracy when a party wins the majority of
the two party preferred, wins the majority of the primary vote and wins
more seats in the Parliament than the other party but the other party
forms government?” (2GB, 8/9).
Sarah Martin: “Yesterday, Julia Gillard’s Labor Party won government
despite losing the primary vote and the two-party-preferred vote, or
securing a majority of seats.” (The Advertiser, 7/9).
Kerry Chikarovski: “The Coalition won the primary vote, they won the two-
party preferred …” (The Drum, 7/9).
Lateline: “Labor loses two-party preferred vote” (report headline, 30/8).
Kenneth Wiltshire: “It is probable that the Coalition will win more third-
party preferences.” (NB: This of course is absurd – Labor got 65 per cent
of third party preferences, much as they always do – but I think we know
what he’s trying to say.) (The Australian 6/9).
Lisa Wilkinson (to Wayne Swan): “Now, you won fewer primary votes, fewer
two-party preferred votes and fewer seats.”
(Swan explains to her that she’s wrong.)
Wilkinson: “But in the end you got 49.9 per cent of the vote and the
Opposition got 50.1.”
Swan: “No, I don’t think that’s … Lisa, that is not a final count.”
Wilkinson: “Well, that’s what the AEC is saying and that’s what Australia
said at the polls.” (The Today Show, Nine Network, 9/9).
http://vtr.aec.gov.au/
This despite what some people propagandised ......
Barnaby Joyce: “We’d won the two-party preferred vote by the time the
independents made their decision.” (Lateline, 7/9).
Andrew Bolt: “Labor won fewer votes, fewer seats of its own and less of
the two-party preferred vote.” (Herald Sun, 8/9).
Alan Jones: “Is it a healthy democracy when a party wins the majority of
the two party preferred, wins the majority of the primary vote and wins
more seats in the Parliament than the other party but the other party
forms government?” (2GB, 8/9).
Sarah Martin: “Yesterday, Julia Gillard’s Labor Party won government
despite losing the primary vote and the two-party-preferred vote, or
securing a majority of seats.” (The Advertiser, 7/9).
Kerry Chikarovski: “The Coalition won the primary vote, they won the two-
party preferred …” (The Drum, 7/9).
Lateline: “Labor loses two-party preferred vote” (report headline, 30/8).
Kenneth Wiltshire: “It is probable that the Coalition will win more third-
party preferences.” (NB: This of course is absurd – Labor got 65 per cent
of third party preferences, much as they always do – but I think we know
what he’s trying to say.) (The Australian 6/9).
Lisa Wilkinson (to Wayne Swan): “Now, you won fewer primary votes, fewer
two-party preferred votes and fewer seats.”
(Swan explains to her that she’s wrong.)
Wilkinson: “But in the end you got 49.9 per cent of the vote and the
Opposition got 50.1.”
Swan: “No, I don’t think that’s … Lisa, that is not a final count.”
Wilkinson: “Well, that’s what the AEC is saying and that’s what Australia
said at the polls.” (The Today Show, Nine Network, 9/9).