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@Nimalan I’m back (I got home yesterday) but I’m out until tonight. I’ll do it tonight if not tonight then tomorrow.
Thanks NP
Hope you enjoyed it 🙂
Some Polling has Haines losing.
Any agreement with Katter wouldn’t be worth the paper it’s written on and Sharkie has no record of voting with the Coalition, afaik?
Tony Abbott puit no pressure on the Indies in the run up to 2010, Dutton won’t make that mistake.
PM needs to be bold and go early, If it’s May, I might vote for the coalition, The PM is insulting Australian’s doing it tough by waiting until May, He needs a bold vision and a fresh mandate, not waiting until May.
NP, welcome back, can you also do a map on born in Australia %? by electorate. The only data I could find was suburbs.
@mick likely haines possibly wilkie and dai le
@gympie sharkie has already stated she would support whoever has the most seats, which polling is that? katter would likely side with the coalition if not to stop a reoltand losng his seat at the next election.
albo has just bought a 4.3M house on the NSw central coast way to show aussies he understands their pain
@Daniel T I already did a map for percentage born in Australia: https://jmp.sh/YKt5wm3O
The SBS has data for federal and state electorates as well as LGAs. Parramatta has the lowest percentage of residents born in Australia (38.2%) followed by Fowler (39.1%).
@ NP
Which seat has the highest % born in Australia?
@Nimalan Indi (83.9%).
Wait sorry it’s Wannon not Indi
@ NP
I would have thought it was Lyons but that is 83.3%. in a seat like Wannon i would expect Warnambool would have more foreign born. Lyons i think has the highest Anglophone %
@Nimalan I think so. Also you’re right Goldstein is 0.2% Indigenous.
@daniel t i imagine there might be an announcement after the qld election albo was out with steven miles in qld yesterday so thats curious
Or maybe its because hes the Prime Minister of Australia, of which Queensland is a part?
Apologies for the slight delay (I have uploaded over 50 files to Jumpshare so I have to pay to upload more so I had to create a second account). Here’s a map of every electorate shaded by the percentage of the population that is Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander (i.e people who claimed they were Indigenous in the Indigenous question according to the census): https://jmp.sh/UHgXW6GY
As we all know, regional, rural and remote seats are much more Indigenous than urban seats. But it’s the regional, rural and remote north that’s particularly Indigenous: all but two regional seats north of Paterson are less than 5% Indigenous (Wide Bay and Wright), while not a single seat in Victoria or the ACT is over 5% Indigenous.
Nationals seats and rural Liberal seats are the most Indigenous seats, while most Labor seats and all Greens or teal seats are not very Indigenous due to their urban location. CALD and affluent seats also lack even sizeable Indigenous communities.
The least Indigenous seat is Goldstein in Melbourne, where 0.2% of the population is Indigenous. The most Indigenous seat in Australia is obviously by far Lingiari in the Territory, where 40.3% of the population is Indigenous and the most commonly nominated ancestry in the 2021 census was “Australian Aboriginal” (38.1%). The most Indigenous urban division is Solomon in Darwin (10.1%). However, the one urban seat that really stands out is Lindsay in Western Sydney, which is the only capital city seat other than Solomon where over 5% of the population is Indigenous.
@ NP
Do you have that in a table format as well so i can see a ranking
@darcy but given how bad labor is about to get thumped supposedly and how badly qld labor are viewed why would albo want to be seen with him if he were electroal posion?
Maybe he is trying to get a boost off of Steven miles, who is seemingly much more popular than Albo.
But in all seriousness, in response to your question, I don’t know why. I don’t think his visit should be read too much in to.
@Nimalan I can make a table sure.
@darcy its a little sad when you think about it like that
Albo’s visit will virtually guarantee 60% TPP for LNP at least. And possibly Labor being reduced to even less than the 7 seats they won in 2012, Bye bye Waterford, Sandgate, Bundamba, etc.
agreed i dont know why theyve brought albo out to qld its not like either of them are popular
@Daniel T I rest my case about you cheerleading for the LNP.
There is absolutely no chance that Labor is losing Bundamba. Also, nobody really cares that Albo is campaigning for Miles – everyone knows both of them are Labor, but at different government levels. People vote different ways federally and in state government. Very few people probably even saw Albo’s appearance in the media. Like, it’s not going to change outcomes of the election. Also, it’s not like Dutton is a super popular man of the people, and he helped Crisafulli’s campaign.
Thanks Nether Portal and Great Map as well 🙂
You have to remember that everyone doesn’t think the same as you – Albo still leads as preferred PM.
(@Daniel T)
This is the table for the most Indigenous seats in Australia: https://jmp.sh/WekgYiJR
Great Table, much appreciated i think typo on Braddon, if you can check it cant be 86%
Top 10 most Indigenous seats:
1. Lingiari (NT, ALP): 40.3%
2. Parkes (NSW, NAT): 16.4%
3. Leichhardt (QLD, LNP): 16.3%
4. Durack (WA, LIB): 15.2%
5. Kennedy (QLD, KAP): 14.8%
6. New England (NSW, NAT): 10.3%
7. Solomon (NT, ALP): 10.1%
8. Herbert (QLD, LNP): 9.7%
9. Hunter (NSW, ALP): 8.0%
10. Calare (NSW, NAT): 7.8%
Top 10 least Indigenous seats:
10. Macnamara (VIC, ALP): 0.4%
9. Wentworth (NSW, IND): 0.4%
8. North Sydney (NSW, IND): 0.4%
7. Hotham (VIC, ALP): 0.3%
6. Higgins (VIC, ALP): 0.3%
5. Menzies (VIC, LIB): 0.3%
4. Chisholm (VIC, ALP): 0.3%
3. Bradfield (NSW, LIB): 0.3%
2. Kooyong (VIC, IND): 0.3%
1. Goldstein (VIC, IND): 0.2%
@Nimalan fixed version: https://jmp.sh/wGpYZz6x
@aa the incumbent usually always leads though so thats not surprising
Whoops made a mistake with Braddon again it’s 8.5% but still the ninth-most Indigenous seat in Australia.
Thanks NP
I am surpised that Mackellar/Warringah are not in the Top 10 but Hotham is. I would have also expected Watson to be higher than Mackellar/Berowra.
Also did not expect seats like Shortland, Dobell, Whitlam to be quite high
Yeah Albo is hated up here but he isn’t going to single-handedly flip ultra-safe Labor seats to the LNP. In QLD both state leaders (Miles and Crisafulli) are significantly more popular than their federal counterparts (Albo and Dutton).
@Nimalan what I found surprising is that while I know Parkes has lots of Indigenous communities and thus would be in the top five I never thought it would have more than Durack and even Leichhardt though it’s not too surprising since Leichhardt is also quite urban-based where is Parkes is entirely rural with the exception of some regional towns and the city of Dubbo which has lots of Aboriginal people. Interestingly the Indigenous communities in Parkes are starting to vote Nationals.
@Scart @Daniel T @AA @John I think we should continue the Queensland discussion on the Queensland thread.
@ NP
Yeah interesting, i always felt the Outbank seats should be most indigenous and did not expect Calare/Hunter to be in the top 10. i am surprised Maranoa is not in the Top 10.
Btw you have Bruce/Dunkley as QLD seats, if you could just fix it
@Nimalan my mistake. Also Maranoa is a bit lower, as are seats like Cowper, Lyne, Paterson and Riverina.
A A October 15, 2024 at 12:36 pm
… People vote different ways federally and in state government.
Since there’s never bee a State and Fedewral Government Electio i the same week, we’ll never know.
Let’s look at Qld 1972:
Labor won 33 of 77 seats at the November Election, it’s best result since 1957 and 8 of the 19 Federal seats in December, a fair result.
In May 1974 Labot lost 2 of those seats.
By November 1974, Federal Labor was on the nose in Qld, an election was called and Labor was reduced from 33 to 11 seats.
What hasn’t bee factored in is a protest vote against Federal Labor.
The Greens have been laying the groundwork in Brisbane, in the rest of Qld there’s a mood to send Canberra a message.
Fixed version of the table: https://jmp.sh/Z3geu8R5
Gympie, although I tend to agree?, what about 2004 and 2001 state and federal, completely opposite results, John Howard won a landslide in QLD in 2004, whereas it was a Labor landslide in QLD for Peter Beattie.
@Np braddon doesnt appear in your top 10 list you have hunter at number 9
@John that was before I fixed the mistake. Now it’s the same but Braddon ahead of Hunter. I searched the list after I made it and searched for each number individually and because it was accidentally 86 not 8 it didn’t come up.
I should say that I type the number then a dot (e.g 8.) because then that eliminates other decimals (e.g 1.8).
… what about 2004 and 2001 state and federal, completely opposite results, John Howard won a landslide in QLD in 2004,
Beattie did a Joh, called an early electio in 2006 with the Howard Government on the nose in Qld.
Similar to what happened in Qld in 1974.
@Daniel T:
Howard was on track to lose in 2001 until Tampa showed up.
Beattie was a master politician, he’d just purged the Goss Faction from Parliament and ended up smelling of roses and the State Liberal and Nationals were at loggerheads.
Kim Beazley was a dud who couldn’t make a hard call.
@ Nether Portal
Thanks again. a few interesting points
1. It seems the poshest seats in each state have the lowest % of indigenous
2. I am surprised how high Tasmania % i always thought it will be low
3. The indignous population is growing significantly so i wonder if one day Chisholm, Hotham which have universities will no longer be in the Bottom 10
4. I do hope to see a revival of indigenous languages and that more seats have an indgenious language in the Top 5 other than English
@np also i wasnt talking about qld i was talking about albo which is federal related. personally mi of the view that if he goes in may he will lose to either a dutton minority or majority. the trend has been peter duttong freidn for over a year and i cant see it getting better for albo. even a 50/50 result for dutton gives him a chance at minority govt if he gets swings in the right seats. the only reason i am rling against him atm is because i dont think h can get enough seats without those teal seats. otherwise i would be backing him in to win. lets face it there was a one term government in 2007-2010 the only reason labor stayed in power because abbott was robbed at the finish line by two turncoats and that will be the reason dutton will miss out too.
Well John, why is it that Labor has been so unpopular in 2007-2010 and 2022-2025?
If you were Labor what policies would you put in place to make them as successful as Hawke-Keating? What changes would you make (I also ask Nether Portal the same question)
Or is country just a right-wing wasteland as I feared?