LNP has massive majority with 49.7% of the primary vote

With no proportional representation in an upper house the system interprets "the will of the people" with a majority of 23 seats to the LNP, and no hinderance to passing legislation with less than 50% of the primary vote.

74.6% counted.   Updated Mon Mar 26 9:03 PM
Party	% Vote	Swing			Won	Predict
Labor	26.9	-15.3			6	8
Liberal National	49.7	+8.1			72	77
Greens	7.2	-1.1			0	0
Australian Party	11.5	+11.5			2	2
Others	4.7	-3.1			2	2

(from abc election site)

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With Labor in power for 20 years....must win Ashgrove

Happened to stop skipping the ads early when watching SBS news an hour later... and saw Can Do Campbell start his ad out with "With Labor in power for 20 years..."

Rob Borbidge might be a little upset, as he was Premier 14 years ago in 1998...

The ad betrayed a desparation to win his own electorate..."and places just like it"... cue canefields & Townsville footage...

The sad thing is... he probably needn't bother. They'll walk it in anyway.... (or so I tell myself so that I don't have to give too much credence to my fantasy of a hung parliament with a couple of Greens and a couple of Katter people in the middle).

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Russian TV pushing the Assad Line

This still from RT (Russia Tonight).

"Foreign involvement may now be beyond words leading to more deaths."

followed by "expert" who says the "installation of a more NATO-friendly regime" (removal of Assad) will result in sectarian chaos.

Next story: Atrocities in Libiyan jails...

Then: How transparent the Russian elections were, due to youtubeing of videos from the voting booth video cams:

(e.g. Moonwalking out of the ballot box)

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Who the hell is the OIC (cont)?

Peter Tatchell is berating them for trying to block a discussion on violence against queers:

http://tinyurl.com/7ku2pex

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Their opposition is set out in a letter to the UN Human Rights Council, signed by the Pakistani Ambassador to the UN, Zamir Akram. He writes on behalf of the government of Pakistan and all 57 countries that belong to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).

The Ambassador's letter makes the claim that LGBT rights are not human rights; asserting that they have "nothing to do with fundamental human rights." It denounces same-sex relationships as "abnormal sexual behaviour;" adding that "the issue of sexual orientation is unacceptable to the OIC." Ambassador Akram's letter concludes by vowing that the OIC member countries "record their opposition to the holding of this panel and will not accept its considerations and recommendations."

Read the letter in full here: http://bit.ly/znmb7M 

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