On Sunday, Australians woke up to news that Scott Morrison remains Australia’s prime minister and the coalition is edging closer to a 76 seat majority in the parliament.
Regardless of which side of politics you sit on, it’s a result many didn’t see coming.
Months of opinion polls told us 2019 was Labor’s year, but the ballot papers have said otherwise.
Things are looking a little different today. Bill Shorten is no longer the leader of the Labor party.
People are putting out their onions for former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who lost his seat of Warringah to high profile independent Zali Steggall.
Controversial conservative Fraser Anning is no longer in parliament.
But one thing that has stayed the same. Scott Morrison is the prime minister of Australia.
As barbecues around the country are being cleaned, democracy sausages digested and election campaign signs begin to come down (oh wait…), we’re all feeling a lot of emotions.
And you know what’s great for emotions? Memes. Lots of memes and tweets. And a good giggle.
Here are 24 of the best internet reactions to the 2019 Australian federal election result.
What did you think of the 2019 Australian federal election results? Tell us in the comments below.
Top Comments
Wow Australia. Totally disregarded the need to do something about climate change. When the world is totally screwed in 100 years, your selfishness will have contributed to the suffering of your grandchildren’s children. Hope you are all proud of yourselves.
100 years? AOC said the world will end in 12 years. According to Bob Brown, Kakadu should be flooded by now, according to Tim Flannery, Perth should be a ghost city now and accordingly to others, children in England no longer see snow and Naru is underwater now. These are just a few of the wild claims we get bombarded with every day.
The election seems to show people aren’t buying the shaming and hysterical threats. Climate change alarmists have a credibility problem.
Exactly. And the first ones who’ll be affected will be the farmers, the very same who voted in the parties least likely to do anything about it. No wonder they’re saying this election highlighted the differences in education level of voters..
Voters are stupid eh? Wonder why you lost.
Nobody cares more about the land than the farmers. They have an affinity for it through generations and depend on it for their livelihood. They understand it.
You don’t tend to see a lot of latte sipping Fitzroy CFA or SES volunteers out in the country fighting natural disasters, more likely to see Greens voters in the country protesting something than actually helping.
Farmers help form the backbone of this great country.
#climateelection turned into #moneyelection. Surprise surprise!
It always was and always is a money election. I’m sorry the political class and media kept saying it’s a climate change election, but that doesn’t make it true, except insofar as we can observe again what behavioural economists call, “Stated versus Expressed preferences”.
For example, we are told polls consistently say a majority of Australians want action of climate change, that’s a stated preference. But less than 1% of passengers actually choose to add a couple of bucks to their Melbourne-Sydney air ticket to offset carbon emissions, that’s an expressed preference.
Another example is a British author calling for open borders and unlimited refugees but she lives in a 40 room mansion surrounded by a high wall and security in a borough that’s 93% white. Stated versus Expressed mismatch.
Pretty much you can look at anyone in Hollywood and see if what they say is actually consistent with what they do.
It’s good to tweet out that you want action on climate change, not so easy to vote for higher taxes, made worse that Shorten wouldn’t tell you how much and who feels the pain.
Where are your stats on how many people recycle, choose enviro friendly products, install energy saving devices in their homes, try to save water and use less power etc, etc.?
An alternative argument to your simplistic one is that many people worry about climate change but the ones without courage who are too self-serving and greedy to make any personal sacrifices just leave it up to others to fix. I’m proud of Labour and Greens voters for having the maturity and balls to commit to the sacrifices needed for climate recovery. To all those weak-minded other voters, whom I bet will rarely admit openly to how they voted, our children will be the judge of them.
Sorry to be simplistic as you say, but you’re probably proud of Labor, not Labour voters and their balls, nice to include female voters in your admiration.
Anyway, your examples actually prove the point, using less power and water is a rational way to save money as governments continue to ratchet up utility bills. The fact that government runs programs to give you free energy saving bulbs and pink batts for all shows you that most people only switch cause it’s free, most don’t pay for them unless they see it will save money. Same for solar panels and cash for clunkers. If people really were behind you, wouldn’t need the subsidies would we?
I’m sure you’re right that people won’t admit who they vote for, if they do their are nasty people out their who sneer at them for disagreement with cries of uneducated and weak-minded, or worse. But when they get into the privacy of the voting booth, then we know what they really think.
Abuse and hectoring doesn’t get people to agree with your point of view and vote for you. Give up on the your children will blame you line, it only annoys people and makes them more likely to vote against your views out of spite and if you really cared about our children’s future you wouldn’t keep backing parties that keep saddling them with higher taxes and more debt, would you?
Whatever Australia does or doesn't do towards climate change will make no difference in the big picture. Direct your ire towards China and India.