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POLITICS > ELECTION
Seats Liberals lost to Labor
Senate election results
SEATS
Bass, Tasmania
Braddon, Tasmania Lyons, Tasmania
Burt, Western Australia Cowan, Western Australia Eden-Monaro, NSW Lindsay, NSW
Macarthur, NSW
Macquarie, NSW
Longman, Queensland Solomon, Northern Territory Hindmarsh, South Australia
Seat the Liberals lost to the Nick Xenophon team
Mayo, South Australia
GONE BABY
Because it’s important to stop
occasionally and relect on the good
news, it’s worth a mention that these
people were not re-elected, and their
claims to fame.
Coalition Labor
Greens
Others
30
26
9
11
One Nation – 4
Nick Xenophon –3 Jacqui Lambie (JLN) David Leyonhjelm Derryn Hinch
Bob Day (Family First) (or his replacement)
SEATS
SEATS
SEATS
ON ANOTHER HAPPY NOTE FORMER
PM TONY ABBOTT LOST A WHOPPING 9.44% OFF HIS PRIMARY.
Sophie Mirabella
Late Breaking News! Bye Bye Bob the Dodgy Builder
Senator Bob Day, one
of the strongest supporters of the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC), got too greedy for his own good
Bob Day has announced he will leave the Senate imminently under a
cloud of humiliation for leaving building contractors and suppliers unpaid to the tune of $30 million
He may be hanging around the Senate to vote on the ABCC Bill so his property developer mates can do what he did – not pay contractors or suppliers
– but pay themselves large dividends and make large political donations, unfettered by the prying eyes of unions to represent
the unpaid contractors and workers
Pushed for abolition of student unions
Likened Julia Gillard to Muammar Gaddai
•
Backed Scott Morrison for Prime Minister
Stated the Liberals would withhold public hospital funding in Wangaratta if she was not elected
Now does media relations for Gina Rinehart
Jamie Briggs
2004 to 2007 he was a senior advisor for WorkChoices to the Prime Minister, John Howard
An Abbott loyalist
Denied his involvement in shattering an expensive Italian marble table
in Parliament the night Abbott was deposed as Prime Minister
Quit as a minister following revelation of inappropriate conduct against a female public servant
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