Newsletter 15 - The Tribe has spoken. Aus Election, recap on what you’ve missed.
The Tribe has spoken. Australia's fastest-growing demographic, professional women, voted for change on Saturday during the Federal election. Highly educated, powerful, pro-business females chose not to vote for the Liberal National Party; they decided to stand as independents in the new Teal Movement. Coached by former Independent Member Cathy McGowan on how to campaign, they became a new player in Australian politics. Climate 200 boasts millions of dollars in funding behind them from small donors and the son of Australia's first Billionaire Simon Holmes à Court that ran a 50,000-strong army. Volunteers door knocking on through social media. It s a movement to watch.
“Climate 200 is a community crowdfunded initiative established in 2019 to support pro-climate, pro-integrity, and pro-gender equity candidates.” -
- Climate 200 Website.
The Teale Wave is a group of primarily female candidates who took on mostly male Liberal MPs in some of Australia's wealthiest electorates. Most of Sydney Harbour will be Teal instead of Blue, and even the now-former Treasurer Josh Frydenberg wasn't safe. He lost his seat in the inner suburbs of Melbourne. It shows that the highly educated are thinking of the future and putting the environment and anti-corruption first. They've asked for an audit on Australian politics.
The Teale Wave didn't hit Queensland. "Greensland" suffered a "Greenslide". The Greens have officially won one House of Representative (ROR) Seat and is looking to win of Ryan (LNP Swing -10%) and Brisbane (LNP -10% Swing) is on a knifes edge. Why The Greens? Griffith (QLD), the most expensive homes along the Brisbane River, Ryan has a large University Demographic that ran a grassroots campaign, which takes in the affluent suburbs of The Gap, surrounded by forest and the D'Aguilar National Parks with Enoggera, Upper Brookfield, Pulenvale. The Greens have held the seat of Melbourne (VIC) thus far, and with 12 National Senators in total, they will hold the balance of power. In Queensland The Greens will go from no HOR seats to three.
Peter Costello's 700 000 Strong Baby Bonus Voters have all grown up, voting for the first time, and they chose to vote for Climate Change and equality.
Did the major parties ignore them? For most of our readers, this is our kids who can now vote…. what is their focus?
A massive story is that Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party (PHONP) and Clive Palmer's United Australia Party (UAP) are fighting out for the last remaining Senate seat in Queensland. Staff shortages post-pandemic with international work visa's drying up made it hard to push the usual PHONP anti-immigration fear-mongering. UAP spent a whopping 100,000 million dollars on their campaign. We all received our text messages. UAP main focus on guaranteeing a maximum 3% interest rate for your home loan did not work for the Billionaire. It proved that Australia’s are more informed than ever. Western Australia is also upset with how Former Prime Minister Scott Morrison's support for Clive Palmer's Court challenge against the WA Premier, Mark McGowan's Covid Border Controls.
Katter's Australia Party retains its seat in Western Queensland, running a solid community-focused campaign in the mining heartland. Labor does not hold a HOR seat further north than Noosa. Queensland is polarised with Greens in the inner city of Brisbane and Liberal, Nationals, or Right-Wing Independents in the Regional Areas. However, for the first time there will be a Green Senator in Gladstone in Central Queensland as the demographic has changed post-Covid pandemic, she also campaigned on choices for former coal mining workers to transition into the renewable energy sector.
Australians have voted for Action for Climate Change, forcing the traditionally Coal and Gas-focused National Party to reconsider its position. Realising they are behind the environmental and economic game, farmers who depend on the Environment to be predictable have suffered continuous flooding and heatwaves over the past three years. The election result will force the National Party to rethink it's leadership. Next week, they will decide if Barnaby Joice will remain their leader. Technically the Nationals held all their seats with no losses; however, the Liberal Party by association may be suffering more. Nationally, the National Party only made up 4.06% of the Primary vote.
Labor campaigned on setting up an anti-corruption commission that Scott Morrison Government failed to do since their last election win. Anti-corruption, climate change is in-line with the Teal Independents and Greens policies which means that even though the Labor Government only won 32.83% of the Primary Vote with nine seats are undecided, Labor may require help from the Cross Bench to push through their below policies.
Key Primary Vote Winners
Labor Party 32.83%
Liberal/Nat Party - Liberal Party 23.83%, Liberal National Party of Queensland 7.65%, Nationals 4.06%, Liberal Country 0.23 %, = 35.77%
The Greens - 11.85%
Indipendant - 5.52%
United Australia Party - 4.25%
Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party - 4.89%
Labor’s Budget Strategy is:
Make room for smart, targeted investments that expand the capacity of the economy, so that it can grow stronger, broader and more sustainably.
Improve the quality of spending to generate a budget position that will allow us to reduce debt as a share of the economy over time, while delivering real outcomes for Australians in essential areas like Medicare, aged care and child care.
The pledge to do this by:
Prioritising smart, responsible and targeted investments that deliver economic value.
Dealing with the Liberals’ wasteful spending including by trimming spending on contractors, consultants and labour hire in the public service.
Conducting a waste and rorts audit.
Closing down loopholes which allow multinationals to avoid their tax obligations to Australians.
Labor Campaigned on making the following Key Changes;
Improving Aged Health Care after the Royal Commission on Aged Quality Care and Saftey, increasing the wage of Age Care Workers
Affordable Housing - Help to Buy will be open to 10,000 Australians each financial year.
Implement the Uluru Statement in full – Voice, Treaty, and Truth.
Protecting the Environment
Our 31st Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, from Public Housing and raised by a single mum, is already in Japan for the Quad meeting with the USA, Japan, and India leaders to discuss the region's issues. He is joined by Penny Wong, South Australian Senator, who was born in Malaysia. She was also the first Asian-born member of an Australian Cabinet, the first female openly-LGBTI Australian federal parliamentarian, and now the first Asian Born, LGBTI Australian Foreign Minister. They represent the change in the diversity of Australian politics, with Penny Wong being the former Minister for Climate Change. They will be meeting USA Joe Biden, India's Narendra Modi, and Japan's Fumio Kishida to discuss climate change and the threats to the region and form solid economic partnerships.
Already China has opened dialogue with the new Premier Li Keqiang, congratulating Prime Minister Albanese on his win and “Ready to work with the Australian side to review the past, face the future, uphold principles of mutual respect, mutual benefit”.
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