To keep winning … end of list.

I’m not saying this is true.

But you *could* mount an argument that Albanese has made Labor safe enough for many people (mostly small target politics), which means he has taken away electoral ground from LNP.

Melbourne has a long term plan to reconfigure the loop to make two major lines through run (Frankston-Cragieburn-Upfield).

One benefit continues to be increasing public transport accessibility in the north of the cbd.

It’s simple. Labor are allowed to be very happy they won seats off the Greens. Greens can be sad that they lost some. Labor can choose how to govern. Greens can choose how to operate on the x-bench. They aren’t the same party. They have a different agenda. That’s it.

That’s, unfortunately, how Westminster politics works. Labor won and gets to decide how they would like to govern.

The latter! They are in fact very good at doing those things.

They just can’t complain when Labor don’t want to work with them or like beating them. That’s all.

That’s how I interpreted the original comment. Maybe I was wrong to. If you want to pass legalisation you do that by being in government, not on the crossbench. That’s where you scrutinise government and review.

Nor should they be. My point was, they are different parties with a different agenda. Labor can be happy when they take a seat off greens and likewise greens taking one off Labor. They aren’t the same and it’s naive to think Labor will just accept the greens as some sort of extension of themselves

I’m not saying it’s all peachy. Just that if people want to implement progressive policies it’s more realistic to do it when being in government and greens are objectively on any measure a political opponent, hence it’s rational that labor want labor people.

The greens shouldn’t expect a free kick from a political party they are trying to defeat and replace. If the greens want to pass progressive legalisation, join the Labor party and pass it from within government.

This is sensible commentary. Especially noting that SRL is primarily a landuse reform project to help consolidate growth away from the urban fringe.

Thank you. Amazing work over the last few days. Not Menzies on this list too with the AEC error?

If nudging 90 seats isn’t a mandate what is?

Do you think Bandt will resign based on these results (assuming he wins Melbourne)?

But Nats don’t run in 150 seats. So maybe better to work out vote share by contested seats?

Pro SRL vote Tom?