Well, waddya know! Kiwis kick the “We are the sole source of truth” Marxists into the long white cloud! Looks like the Ozzies like their constitution just the way it is – unclowning the world?
From here:
Conservatives Surge to Power in New Zealand Election | The Epoch Times
A general election in New Zealand looks like it delivered a crushing blow to the vaxx nazi Labour government.
With 98% of the vote counted, of the 120 seats up for grabs in a country that uses mixed member proportional representation, the opposition National party (similar to Republican/Conservative) and its close relative the ACT party look to have
“New Zealand uses a Mixed Member Proportional (MMP system) voting system. Under the MMP system, the population gets two votes—a party vote, as well as an electorate vote.”
“With 98 percent counted, and the National Party and ACT currently holding 61 seats between them, this could only happen if NZ First gains an extra seat.
Mr. Peters, who campaigned heavily against vaccine mandates, has previously said he would not work with Labour.”
I know what you are thinking, 61 seats out of 120 Is a majority, Presumably it means that if Mr Peters NZ First Party gets another 1% or 2%, it will come with a gain of a seat, or maybe 2? Who knows.
What is great news is that Kiwis are sick and fed up with a socialist party that has only delivered what socialism can only ever deliver.
“However, before resigning from power, Ms. Ardern's popularity struggled as a swathe of cost of living, inflation, and housing issues swept the population.”
And, I bet, that is without the significant physical and metal damage inflicted by C19 measures and toxic injections.
It looks like some of the Labour support also went to the Green and Māori parties.
“Huge queues were reported around New Zealand on election day, while reports emerged that the electronic version of the electoral roll had crashed.”
Great to see!
Here’s the (almost) final seat count out, of the 120 on offer.
“The National Party is predicted to gain 50 seats, while Labour is projected to gain 34 seats.
This a marked turnaround from the 2020 election result where the National Party garnered just 33 seats and Labour won 65 seats outright—buoyed by the popularity of Ms. Ardern. At the previous election in 2016, the National Party held 56 seats, while Labour held 46.”
So, in 2023, Labour lost 31 seats and National gained 17.
“In the current election, the minor parties have benefitted from disenchantment with the two major parties with the ACT expected to win 11 seats, the Greens with 14 seats, New Zealand First 8, and Te Pāti Māori with 4.
In 2020, the ACT won 9 seats, the Greens 10, New Zealand First held 0, and Te Pāti Māori won 2.
Across the Tasman Sea, Australians had a referendum on whether to change their Constitution.
They said “No thanks, and take your didgeridoo with you”
From the left wing comic, clinging onto funding with a tax called a TV license, the BBC:
Voice referendum live news: Australians reject historic Indigenous vote - BBC News
“Australians have voted against a historic Indigenous referendum
Australia's national broadcaster ABC projects that three states have voted no, effectively defeating the referendum. Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he respected the outcome of the vote and called on Indigenous people to maintain their hope
Voters were asked to enshrine an Indigenous advisory body in the constitution that recognises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the nation’s First Peoples”
Lots more commentary here:
Australia already has laws against racism, hate speech etc
From here:
Australians Vote Overwhelmingly Against Changing the Constitution Over 'The Voice' | The Epoch Times
“The Results Thus Far
As of 10:00 p.m. AEST, ongoing vote counts indicate 59 percent of Australians have rejected The Voice and 41 percent in support.
In the country's most populous state, New South Wales, 58.5 percent of citizens voted No against The Voice, with 41.5 percent voting Yes.
The second most populous state Victoria was close for most of the night but the No vote is pulling ahead at 53.7 percent and 46.3 percent in support.
In Tasmania, 59.1 percent have voted No, with 40.9 percent voting Yes.
An overwhelming 63.9 percent of voters in South Australia have chosen No, while in Queensland—Australia's third-most populous state—67.4 percent have voted No, Northern Territory (with its high Indigenous population) have also backed the No vote with 64.1 percent.
Western Australia, the last state to start counting due to its timezone, is tracking with a strong No vote at 59.8 percent.
Only the Australian Capital Territory showed strong support for the Yes vote with 62.5 percent approving The Voice, and 37.5 percent in opposition.”
Now, about the “Yes” voters – I doubt there is anything in the Constitution that prevents them inviting anyone they choose to empower advisory bodies to help them run their lives and companies. That is their right to choose – of course shareholders might take a dim view if the advice they take costs billions of bucks!
So,
“Prominent Australians who supported the No vote included former Prime Ministers Tony Abbott and John Howard.
Other notable Australian public figures include media personality Alan Jones, Indigenous leaders Warren Mundine and Senator Jacinta Price, former Woolworths CEO Paul Versluis, former Virgin Australia CEO John Borghetti, and former CEO of Qantas Geoff Dixon.
Some notable supporters include former Prime Ministers Malcolm Turnbull and Paul Keating; sports stars such as Cathy Freeman, Adam Goodes, and Nathan Buckley; as well as entertainers including Russell Crowe, Hugh Jackman, Naomi Watts, and Missy Higgins.
The country's largest businesses, like Qantas and BHP, have also supported The Voice, as well as 20 of the country's largest sporting leagues.”
Let’s monitor the headlines for these companies and people putting their beliefs into actions.
There are around a million indigenous Aboriginal – First Australians a little under 4%
According to the latest (2021) census:
Census 2021: Almost half of Australians had a parent born overseas | SBS News
“The results of the 2021 Census, released on Tuesday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), showed 48.2 per cent of Australians have a parent born overseas, and 27.6 per cent were born outside Australia.
Meanwhile, the number of people who used a language other than English at home has increased by nearly 800,000, rising to over 5.5 million people.”
Australia has a population of 26 million.
Perhaps the Yes voters are really saying they want Australia to governed along ethnic lines – yanno like a kind of multi-racial apartheid system. Sounds kind of racist – but then, so are all dogmas like BLM and “positive (or negative) discrimination” and quota hires of one skin colour or religion or another.
Onwards!
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Winston Peters' NZ First Party will end up with 8 or 9 seats. He is a very experienced politician who started out with the National Party about 45 years ago but his party was not represented in the last Parliament as they went under 5% in the 2020 election. He visited the protest at Wellington and at the time was banned from Parliament for it. So he, and his Party, is the only one worth trusting due to that. Nevertheless he is on record as berating the unvaxxed during the Pandemic so he still needs to justify that trust.
On the other hand Chris Luxon who is the new PM demanded that all the MPs in his party were vaccinated which not even the Labour Government at the time did. So the National Party is not to be trusted in the slightest and indeed if Luxon had been PM instead of Ardern over the last 3 years I don't doubt that he would have been actually worse than she was.
That’s good news. I’ll take what I can get in these dark days.
Possibly a harbinger of worldwide change?