It’s been an awful election for Labor in the Senate. The ALP needed to get at least 33 seats – preferably 34 – to help them steer their legislation through the Senate. They didn’t. South Australia and the West denied them, writes Christian Kerr.
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Abjorensen: Barnaby Joyce, Labor minister?
Assuming that Labor wins government on November 24, it will still face the prospect of a hostile Senate, writes Norman Abjorensen.
Abjorensen: Polls pointing to Greens Senate victory in ACT
The Coalition might not be able to count on a Senate majority after a likely Labor win at the election, writes Norman Abjorensen.
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Don’t count Pauline out yet
The successful registration of Pauline Hanson’s new political party increases the chance of Ms Hanson winning the last Senate seat in Queensland and thus having a major say in what governing the next government can actually do.
It’s John Howard v the Liberal Party in Queensland
As this morning’s Australian reports, one of the disputed Liberal preselections in New South Wales is the Senate ticket, in which the Prime Minister, despite himself coming from the right, is trying to keep the left’s incumbent Marise Payne in the number three spot against a right-wing challenge.
