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[edit] Allied Council for Japan

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[edit] Edmund Hoyle Vestey

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[edit] Not a Ruddslide?

Labor gained a 5.5 percent two-party swing... the only other Labor leader to gain or lose a bigger swing was Gough Whitlam. So Whitlam aside, Rudd gained the biggest two-party swing since two-party records were captured in 1949. Not a Ruddslide? Of course it was. Suck it back :-) Timeshift (talk) 07:02, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statistics

lol ok, you don't believe there was a 5.5% swing. Enjoy your opposition. Timeshift (talk) 03:54, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

http://results.aec.gov.au/13745/website/ Currently 94.52% of the primary vote has been counted.

Your point being? That swing has been stable for ages now, it's not going to change much if at all. :-) Timeshift (talk) 08:54, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Note that that figure will never reach 100% - it'll stop in the 95-96 region as not everybody actually turned up to vote. So for dramatic changes to occur in the remaining 1% of counting would be just plain odd, esp as many seats have now been officially declared (meaning every last vote has been counted and scrutinised) Orderinchaos 02:17, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22889385-5014046,00.html

The nine most marginal for Labor would all fall to the Coalition with a uniform swing of 2.92 per cent next time.

Yes, and that sort of swing only occurs with the change of government elections anyway. The only time you've got a swing that big is times like 1996, 1983, 1975 etc. Enjoy your opposition :-) Timeshift (talk) 00:53, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Also there's an assumption here of uniform swing. In 1990 the election that Libs were on track to win was stymied by Victoria not going with the flow. In 1998 that same state caused exactly the opposite situation to occur. In 2004 SA defied the national trend to go towards Labor, as did the seats of Parramatta and Richmond in NSW. In 2007 WA defied the national trend with a much smaller swing to Labor, and two seats going to the Coalition. What I tend to look at is the "natural orientation" for want of a better word of booths and seats - in WA several Labor areas are held by the Liberals, while in QLD several Coalition areas are now held by Labor. In Victoria the balance is almost right, although La Trobe's a strange one (won by Liberal but most of its booths and area went to Labor) Orderinchaos 02:17, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Labor self destructs anyway http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Cook#Nationalist_Party http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Scullin http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/national/the-enemy-within-that-killed-curtin/2007/04/25/1177180661087.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1949_Australian_coal_strike http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._V._Evatt#Breakdown_and_retirement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loans_Affair http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hawke#Decline_and_fall http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Keating#Leadership_rivalry

That leadership rivalry got us a fifth election win and 13 years in power thankyou very much! Unlike four election wins and 11 years. Oh and I love this stat - Australia's last 6 PMs, only two were Liberal. And one hates the other's guts. :D But if we are talking about parties self destructing, we only need look at the repeated failures and self-destruction of the previous conservative parties before the Libs, unlike Labor since 1891. Timeshift (talk) 02:10, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Spoken like a True Believer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Believer

[edit] Edmund Hoyle Vestey

Greetings, Stackja1945. Your article, Edmund Hoyle Vestey, has been saved and expanded. It should be stable now but I'll keep an eye on it for a while. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 12:52, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Citation Templates

Hi Stackja1945. I made some changes to an edit you did on the Padraic McGuinness article. The quote needed to be sourced to who made it. Also, the reference needed formatting. I find it useful to use the Wikipedia:Citation_templates, which I copy and paste into articles and then fill in the blanks. Maybe that will be useful to you in future. Cheers, Lester 21:00, 28 January 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Malvin Wald

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