WE hope for the best – one or two, optimistically maybe three “freedom party” representatives in the Senate. Alas, it appears that the fragmented freedom party vote was its own worst enemy.
The ABC casually reported that in the new Senate Labor is on track to hold 28 seats and the Greens 11 giving the two parties the numbers to pass legislation without relying on other cross benchers.
The Labor-Green political machine is getting its way and there’s nothing to stop it. The mainstream media political hacks are happy and so is Coles, Woolies, NAB, CBA, Westpac, ANZ and the other corporate sponsors of Australian media and party politics.
Only the Greens can “cause trouble” in the Senate, by doing deals with Labor to go “deeper green” with any legislation piece of legislation that comes up from the Lower House. It means more globalist, green/ woke waste and economic kow-towing to China and the EU.
The Coalition will only have 26 seats. If you include candidates who are ahead the major party and Green numbers could become Labor 30, Green 11 and Coalition 27, the ABC predicts. One Nation’s Malcolm Roberts looks like scraping in at number 6 on the Queensland Senate list on preferences.
But there’s no such luck for Gerard Rennick, who, with Roberts, served the Australian people admirably in the Senate. The only real opposition in the Senate now will be Pauline Hanson, Roberts, Ralph Babet and Liberal outsider Alex Antic and maybe one or two other Coalition senators like Matt Canavan.
The others in the so-called Senate cross bench are basically the leftist radicals who call themselves independents: David Pocock from the ACT, Islamist Fatima Payman, the indigenist disaster Lidia Thorpe and Tammy Tyrell from Tasmania. For this mob the only issues are racism, climate change and “gender equity” – Greens without a party.
What is clear from the numbers provided by Monica Smit is that minor parties, aka the pro-freedom patriotic parties, will have to co-operate better at the next Senate half-election. Gerard Rennick went part of the way by joining with Katters Australian Party in Queensland, Heart in Victoria, and Heart and Libertarians in NSW.
Rennick’s 123,291 votes or 4.8% in Queensland was a good effort, but again his potential was undercut by the votes for Trumpet of Patriots (3.59%), Family First (1,79%), Libertarians (1.87%), GAP and Citizens. If Rennick was able to combine the votes of the three other leading small parties excluding One Nation, he would have had a chance at a Senate seat.
There appears to be a very good reason for these parties to seriously consider joining One Nation or at the very least, merge to combine forces. We’re not holding our breath.
