>>95868 That is indeed Anthony "DJ Albo" Albanese. He's done so many shows that one of the novelty bets you can place is "Will Albo DJ his own election night party?"
That said, Morrison knows how to whip up a tune too:
Labor need to gain 7 seats for a majority. So far they're likely to take 4. There are no numbers from Western Australia yet, but Labor took the state parliament in a landslide last year. Liberal are set to lose at least 4 more to independents.
Excluding WA, the result is still unclear in 10 outgoing Labor seats and 20 Liberal/National seats.
Also: Dear Australian Labor Party, learn to spell. That is all.
Labor set to lose one more to the Greens, but right now they're holding on to the margin they need for a majority. Still no sign of that missing U, though.
God I wish we had AV over here. I don't know much about Aussie politics but by the sounds of what I heard on the radio, it at least makes elections a lot more interesting. None of this endless hung parliament gerrymandering shite like we get over here.
>>95876 One thing I have found out, and like, about Aussie politics during my passing interest with this election is that they have a ban on politicians employing spouses and relatives. It never occured to me you could just stop it like that. I'd never have to hear about £60,000 a year of public money being laundered through some oafish MP's missus.
>>95876 ABC coverage was available to stream on YouTube. You'll see the legend that is Antony Green talking through the numbers from time to time. He's like John Curtice but less academic and more techy.
A couple of years ago I met him and he described how it all works. The AEC decides in advance who the top two candidates are going to be. Ballots are counted at polling station, and they initially report the first preference totals and the two-candidate preference totals. If it turns out they guessed wrong or there's a closer run for second place than expected, then they stop reporting 2CP and just report out the full count, which takes longer as they need to wait for all the stations to count each round individually. They were waiting days for a result in 2016 because the AEC got a lot of their 2CP calls wrong, and so both sides were stuck in the 60s with a dozen full counts to do.
Green's evaluation of the UK going to AV was that we would need to be prepared to give up election night if we insisted on bringing all the ballot papers to count centres and only putting out numbers when complete rounds of counting were completed. He's able to make projections after a few hours only because numbers are available for individual locations.