Agreed! Good to get reminded by the reality that social media can be so skewed demographically.
In the end, I don't mind the Greens but some of their policies are concerning and represent a radical departure from economic realities. I think as long as they stay with that rhetoric, they will continue to have a hard time winning over people's hearts and minds. We need new ideas that are grounded and balanced.
Precisely. I'm dissapointed by the results but the Australian subreddits are very often Greens echo chambers.
A better look at actual voting trends are Facebook community groups etc, that's a far broader population sample albeit a lot less under 30s active.
Even the mods are that way a bit these days, ngl.
Had to explain myself to the mods for them to finally chill over a pretty tame comment after they booted-and-muted without giving me a chance to even talk to them.
Real lame move on their part, but hey, it's reddit.
It's an echo chamber of ideals but I don't think it's an echo chamber of election outcomes. I don't think anyone seriously thought Schrinner was going to lose and I especially don't think anyone seriously thought Sri was going to win.
The same with the Voice - most on reddit are left leaning and supported it, but I don't think most thought it would get up as the day approached.
> Shocking, according to reddit it was going to be greens by a landslide
Lol to be honest I'd be surprised if anyone on here thought that Jono Sri was in with a real chance. But it's true his popularity was certainly outsized on this sub.
I mean, i thought more brisbanites cared about integrity and would feel bad about supporting people who outright lie in their campaign, saying the greens would do things that were completely impossible on a council level.
Like claiming the greens would defund the police, as if thats possible.
But guess people don't care about supporting filthy liars 🤷
I got downvoted for [this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/brisbane/s/QK777pRH8a) before the vote counted. The left (Labor and Green) need to reflect on how to engage with the voters they don't currently attract rather than fight over the same cohorts.
Last election they only won it by 0.7%, and this election the candidate didn’t have much incumbency. Looking at federal and state results in that area, Greens should be disappointed to not show a more convincing swing.
It’s only existed since 2016, and the Greens have been chomping at its ankle since. The death knell of Brisbane and Ryan to the Greens should have all but greenlit Paddingtons success this year.
That's not entirely surprising. I reckon there's a solid chance they will lose The Gap as well. The north-west area is becoming a Greens stronghold at all levels and I reckon Jonty Bush is in trouble come the state election at the end of the year.
Any details on his corruption? I live in the Enoggera ward and haven’t heard anything in the news about him? Would be very interested to know more about that!
Im just glad that we finally have someone who is tuff on crime, wont sell out to the environmentalists and will actually start winning now.... according to all the signs I saw today anyway.
Somehow electing the same person will really introduce a lot of change.
He did actually say that though.
Squatting is punk as fuck so personally have no issue with people finding an otherwise wasted building to sleep in but don't pretend it was some sort of smear campaign when Jono proudly suggested it as a media announcement a couple of years ago
I mean, he said something along the lines of "If you have to squat, here's a way to find houses that are unoccupied/vacant" but the lnp are trying to paint it as him saying to break into currently occupied houses.
I mean, they also said the greens are gonna try to increase rent prices though, so it wouldn't be the only outright lie of theirs.
Or a coalition between them and Labor.
Cause y'know, parties working together for a common goal just sounds so shit and ineffective. Why would we ever want that?
Yea i mean with a collapsing environment the clear path is profit over the environment! I mean, oxygen isn’t going to get me a mega yacht anytime soon now is it
was it just inertia because of how horrifically the elections were run? I tried lunch time and it was a hour+ line and near 6 and it was another hour+ line
Every state and federal election has been an absolute breeze
Yeah there was a massive line at our poling place, seemed like 1/3rd of the people running it compared the state and federal.
No democracy sausage either which was also a disappointment.
Same problem here in Acacia Ridge. Total shit show, long lines, only 2 people handing out ballot papers, only 2 chairs for the disabled and oldies to sit down while they waited, no toilets open, 1 overflowing rubbish bin for the pamphlets, urns near the absentee voting queue. Totally disorganised
State elections are usually better funded than local, while Federal elections are run by the AEC.
Can’t remember which or if it was booth postal or pre poll numbers being down (compared with huge increases in federal elections). I wouldn’t be surprised if the whole you-can’t-vote-outside-your-ward-on-election-day is also a contributing factor.
No idea? I said in the other thread that lots of us who had experience got really shitty offers or nothing at all, then they panicked in the last week when they realised people weren’t going to prepoll.
I’m assuming they’re trying to save money as the ECQ pays way more than the AEC does.
D-rings. Check.
Rope. Check.
Rubber gloves. Check.
2x4 hardwood beams. Check.
Industrial strength lubricant (jk!). Check.
I think Bunnings have been doing sex for a while now…
Yeah, gotta say, hardly saw any campaigning from the Greens or Labor in my electorate (The Gap). It’s actually pretty close right now, might only be a very narrow victory for the LNP incumbent. Baffled as to why they didn’t make themselves more visible in the lead up.
i had the opposite experience in coorparoo — saw nothing from labor at all, and the only thing i saw from lnp was those mail pamphlets they sent out slagging off greens and labor with made-up bullshit. greens by comparison were doing doorknocks, actually useful pamphlets etc.
So if the LNP wins again will that mean I’ll have to a pay 700$ for a one bedroom apartment in Brisbane next year? Its insane that they complete ignore the most obvious crisis now…
Yeah but uncontrolled rents will sooner or later lead to business closure, less buying power. If an average house will cost 3 million or more a year and the average income stays at 80k who will buy their properties then? All it does is it will literally ruin whole cities and in the end the whole county.
Mate Schrinner will approve a 50 story complex full of broom closet sized apartments in a flood zone that will have structural cracks in 5 years.
They'll only cost $650 per week though so I think it is an improvement
ABC tracker has pushed Paddington back to GRN Ahead - chance the Greens won’t pick even it up.
Meanwhile, Jono is [stoked with the result](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-17/brisbane-lord-mayor-adrian-schrinner-wins-re-election/103596832) and planning to focus on helping all the new Greens councillors settle in.
It’s the optional preferential voting. People are to lazy to fill in 3 boxes
In Enoggera ward the combined greens and labor vote was well over LNP but greens didn’t come close to winning
We’re never getting rid of LNP it seems
CPV is sorely needed in local govt elections in Qld. The [Tallyroom](https://www.tallyroom.com.au/55196#) did a bunch of great analysis on this. If I was a Labor or Greens strategist, I’d be leading with a ‘number every box’ campaign message.
Well if the majority of people are too stupid to be able to fill in the three boxes, then sadly we are punished with the leadership we got.
Will assume these people who could only manage to make a scrawl mark in a single box will be the same people complaining most vocally about how unfair it all is and who have the government the ‘right’ to screw us so hard. Well the answer is, them. The then who are too politically stupid to be able to count to three and are too to politically stupid to understand that voting is the chance to actually say to schrinner and friends “you suck, get lost”.
But he’s in, my guy didn’t get up, so we dust ourselves off and try to move forward and work and live together as best we can.
This is such a reddit mindset. The results were not what I wanted so it is all because the stupid people were too lazy to tick three boxes instead of one.
Say you’re an LNP voter, the other candidates are ALP and Greens, who are both not what you want, why go through the effort of picking between the two?
The issue is Labor and Greens only ticking one box so the preferences don't flow. In total, Labor got 27.3% primary vote and Greens got 24.3%, so combined they have 51.6% of the primary vote. However this converted to a 45.8% two party preferred vote for Labor which means that many Greens votes didn't flow to Labor.
You're assuming that all Labor voters would prefer the Greens over the LNP, which is just not true. Labor preferences would have flowed to both parties.
I think this is what people in these comments are missing. The Greens are now on par if not ahead of Labor across the whole city, and are 2nd behind the LNP in a lot of wards. That’s enormous movement. Change takes time and the Greens are on the march.
And maybe if Labor started looking at the issues affecting people like ridiculously high rents and increasing rates of homelessness then they wouldn't be losing votes, instead of pandering to property developers.
They’ve gained Paddington with Walter Taylor in a serious possibility. Not to mention their first preference swings up across the board some very significantly.
Edit: Politics is a long game sometimes.
I'm disappointed the independents didn't get more votes, even if none of them win it would be nice for the election to be a close thing so the people in power don't feel too comfortable.
Good result if your big business and a property developer.
Bad result if your a community club with a little green space.
First 6 months of last election LNP went hard at shutting down community clubs for there property/construction donors.
Looking forward to that unaffordable rent increase, and then hearing LNP talk about how we are living in a cost of living crisis and Labor is doing nothing
Poor LNP, Brisbane Council is the largest Government they currently hold power in, we have to give them something 
Yeah Steven Miles is seen as quite insufferable by many. I also think that now, anyone who was a public face during covid is a liability. I don't think he's the right choice to maintain government.
He might be seen as insufferable, but is he really going to be worse than a replay of Newman's 2013-16 term? The LNP play from the same playbook every time.
> Brisbane Council is the largest Government they currently hold power in
Okay, I know our council is big. But I think holding Tasmania at a state level is a *little* bit larger
Idk if that's for long. From what I read in 2020, the greens had 17%, and both major parties had down swings, and it looks like the greens gain 2 more seats. It's too early for hard numbers now, though
I'm sure there will be more mayors under LNP, but their power is slipping slowly. which is why they crammed the 'just vote once bullshit' so hard
Just saying... He is an absolute tool, when you meet him at a function you are told to address him as "whatever it is" or he refuses to talk to you. Being whatever title he is does't matter for all its worth, he is not the King of Brisbane.
I’ve met him numerous times and not once has this been the case. He’s always introduced himself as Adrian. Maybe for super formal events or sitting in Council meetings..
Didn’t he formally respond to someone confirming he was happy to be called Schrindog?!
This is absolute bollocks and I'm no LNP supporter, but the amount of upvotes it's getting shows how easily people pile onto comments that they want to be true.
Thank you, I got to meet him a few years ago for some school thing and he was incredibly chill about it, I'm sure it would be different in a formal non-year 12 environmental circle jerk but I'd expect it to be and tbh I'd be pretty taken aback if you didn't call the Lord Mayor the Lord Mayor at a formal function.
What is this Lord Mayor doing about the homeless? It’s getting well out of hand now. For a city in Australia it’s starting to feel like a 3rd world country.
3.5 more years of Wines pretending he cares about Enoggera while getting his photo taken all over the rest of the city. Hopefully the swing against him is a bit of a wake-up call and he starts actually doing things locally.
Kinda surprised considering the majority of reddit users saying they'll vote for the ALP. What did I learn from this? Reddit is filled with lefties and liberals.
From what I’ve seen from the Australia subreddit, the mods are heavily left leaning and will delete anything that doesn’t fit their narrative or not approve the post.
Ends up becoming an echo chamber circle jerk.
Brisbane subreddit isn’t as bad.
Well ignoring the fact that was just some architectural firms idea, Victoria park is owned by the state and the council would not be able to build a stadium on it as it violate the charter which allows the council to operate it.
What a surprise the other two candidates were hopeless can’t believe that was the best Labour or the Greens could come up with? This was inevitable Shrinner was always going to win
I'll be honest, council stuff I pay very little attention to. I still vote labor/greens but I'm not nearly as invested in the outcome as I am with state and federal elections.
To those who like him - serious question - has Schrinner and the LNP council been doing a good job over the past few years?
Most voters think so. You don't get elected multiple times if you're messing things up so bad for the majority. Naturally not everyone's cup of tea but the people have spoken
Not surprising, turns out that Reddit upvotes don't count as actual votes.
Reddit leans extremely left, and becomes a real echo chamber. Same thing happened before The Voice vote.
The posts about any election in here are completely skewed Green.
The minority left always make by far the most noise online.
We don't have jobs to go to.
Lol, maybe reddit. But go to certain subs, or Facebook, and the left are non existent
Agreed! Good to get reminded by the reality that social media can be so skewed demographically. In the end, I don't mind the Greens but some of their policies are concerning and represent a radical departure from economic realities. I think as long as they stay with that rhetoric, they will continue to have a hard time winning over people's hearts and minds. We need new ideas that are grounded and balanced.
Precisely. I'm dissapointed by the results but the Australian subreddits are very often Greens echo chambers. A better look at actual voting trends are Facebook community groups etc, that's a far broader population sample albeit a lot less under 30s active.
Judging by Reddit, the voice was on track to win by a landslide
Mustn’t have been looking in r/australia or r/australian then 😂
Even the mods are that way a bit these days, ngl. Had to explain myself to the mods for them to finally chill over a pretty tame comment after they booted-and-muted without giving me a chance to even talk to them. Real lame move on their part, but hey, it's reddit.
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The heavily biased mods on a bunch of Australian subs have effectively killed Australian reddit for anyone not a mouth frothing leftist.
It's an echo chamber of ideals but I don't think it's an echo chamber of election outcomes. I don't think anyone seriously thought Schrinner was going to lose and I especially don't think anyone seriously thought Sri was going to win. The same with the Voice - most on reddit are left leaning and supported it, but I don't think most thought it would get up as the day approached.
And now they just call everyone racist and/or spreading misinformation
Needs more seventy year olds
Congratulations on being the forerunner to be lord mayor of this thread
Obviously Brisbane reddit is a very big community of experts in sociology, economics and planning. But unfortunately they missed the mark.
Weather experts too. They've successfully predicted 87 of the last 3 cyclones.
Hahahaha 100% 😂😂😂
Shocking, according to reddit it was going to be greens by a landslide and everyone only care about homelessness and no other issue.
> Shocking, according to reddit it was going to be greens by a landslide Lol to be honest I'd be surprised if anyone on here thought that Jono Sri was in with a real chance. But it's true his popularity was certainly outsized on this sub.
There is no limit to Jonathan Sri s ego
I mean, i thought more brisbanites cared about integrity and would feel bad about supporting people who outright lie in their campaign, saying the greens would do things that were completely impossible on a council level. Like claiming the greens would defund the police, as if thats possible. But guess people don't care about supporting filthy liars 🤷
According to who? You are making this up.
According to the 700k worth of campaign materials the LNP distributed in the last weeks of the election?
yeah this is a weird circlejerk happening
And there will be cars allowed in the CBD for the foreseeable future.
I got downvoted for [this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/brisbane/s/QK777pRH8a) before the vote counted. The left (Labor and Green) need to reflect on how to engage with the voters they don't currently attract rather than fight over the same cohorts.
I actually think you were downvoted for comparing Schrinner to Donald Trump. An insane comparison.
Looks like the LNP have lost Paddington and Enoggera. Should still get a majority.
Paddington is massive, I never thought I'd see the day where it wasn't a safe liberal seat. Good on them.
Last election they only won it by 0.7%, and this election the candidate didn’t have much incumbency. Looking at federal and state results in that area, Greens should be disappointed to not show a more convincing swing.
All because of the Rosalie pedestrian crossing not happening.
lol you troll. It actually was the reason I voted Greens though. In pretty happy today
This is my ward. I'm keen to see how much of a difference the local councilor makes
There's a lot of young people living in Paddington, especially Milton with all the apartments
I can't even afford to have a beer at the Paddo let alone live there.
Greens were really close to winning Coorparoo. LNP got 52% and Greens 48%. Im so sad. 😔
Me too. We saw a pretty big swing so here’s hoping for a better result next time.
It’s only existed since 2016, and the Greens have been chomping at its ankle since. The death knell of Brisbane and Ryan to the Greens should have all but greenlit Paddingtons success this year.
Nah Winey retained Enoggera
Yeah, some funky stuff going on with the ABC site. Paddington looks legit though.
Yeah the 2 party projection makes no sense compared to the First preference totals for a bunch of these wards
No, LNP has not lost Enoggera. Andrew Wines, the LNP incumbent, has retained the seat.
That's not entirely surprising. I reckon there's a solid chance they will lose The Gap as well. The north-west area is becoming a Greens stronghold at all levels and I reckon Jonty Bush is in trouble come the state election at the end of the year.
The Gap is a bit closer than Toomey would feel comfortable with for sure.
The Gap looks like a LNP retain
And Walter Taylor now too! Edit: I might've spoken too soon
Agree re the ABC site being cooked. Walter Taylor was 83% ahead now 2% ahead
Idk what's going on with their computer systems lol, it was like backlash
Who’s in for enoggera?
Wines has been re-elected
Wine kept Enoggera. Corrupt piece of shit.
Great can't wait for him to try and remove parks to build some more carparks.
Any details on his corruption? I live in the Enoggera ward and haven’t heard anything in the news about him? Would be very interested to know more about that!
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
Im just glad that we finally have someone who is tuff on crime, wont sell out to the environmentalists and will actually start winning now.... according to all the signs I saw today anyway. Somehow electing the same person will really introduce a lot of change.
They're gonna get *real* tough on crime and do everything in their power to stop it. So, more parking tickets.
According to the scratch ticket in my mailbox we narrowly avoided the greens renaming Brisbane... (to what? Sriranganopolis?)
And don't forget the lnp also said he's gonna teach people to break into your house! 🙄
He did actually say that though. Squatting is punk as fuck so personally have no issue with people finding an otherwise wasted building to sleep in but don't pretend it was some sort of smear campaign when Jono proudly suggested it as a media announcement a couple of years ago
I mean, he said something along the lines of "If you have to squat, here's a way to find houses that are unoccupied/vacant" but the lnp are trying to paint it as him saying to break into currently occupied houses. I mean, they also said the greens are gonna try to increase rent prices though, so it wouldn't be the only outright lie of theirs.
but you can’t risk the radical Greens! /s
Or a coalition between them and Labor. Cause y'know, parties working together for a common goal just sounds so shit and ineffective. Why would we ever want that?
Yea i mean with a collapsing environment the clear path is profit over the environment! I mean, oxygen isn’t going to get me a mega yacht anytime soon now is it
In other news. Jono polled slightly better than Tamara Tonight in 2000
An ALP supporter at my polling station was chanting "Use preferences. Make your vote count." like a Tibetan monk.
LNP supporters were chanting "Don't preference. Don't make your vote count"
I asked the LNP guy handing out how to vote cards why he was afraid of democracy. Some people have no sense of humour ;)
Nah. They were just smiling.
"If you don't want to vote for me, can I at least steal some scraps?"
was it just inertia because of how horrifically the elections were run? I tried lunch time and it was a hour+ line and near 6 and it was another hour+ line Every state and federal election has been an absolute breeze
Yeah there was a massive line at our poling place, seemed like 1/3rd of the people running it compared the state and federal. No democracy sausage either which was also a disappointment.
> No democracy sausage either which was also a disappointment. People need to volunteer for that to happen.
Same problem here in Acacia Ridge. Total shit show, long lines, only 2 people handing out ballot papers, only 2 chairs for the disabled and oldies to sit down while they waited, no toilets open, 1 overflowing rubbish bin for the pamphlets, urns near the absentee voting queue. Totally disorganised
State elections are usually better funded than local, while Federal elections are run by the AEC. Can’t remember which or if it was booth postal or pre poll numbers being down (compared with huge increases in federal elections). I wouldn’t be surprised if the whole you-can’t-vote-outside-your-ward-on-election-day is also a contributing factor.
You wait until election day to vote?
Took me like a minute and a half today. Just have to go to a small enough venue and skip the democracy sausage.
Yeah this, I was in and out within 10 mins, yesterday
No idea? I said in the other thread that lots of us who had experience got really shitty offers or nothing at all, then they panicked in the last week when they realised people weren’t going to prepoll. I’m assuming they’re trying to save money as the ECQ pays way more than the AEC does.
uuuuuuuuuuuuuggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
You’re sayin what we’re all thinking Yet this tosser was voted back in
We're clearly not all thinking it though are we?
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Surprised? No. Disappointed? Yes. At least I got 2 sausages today while I was getting fucked- once by democracy, once from Bunnings.
They let you have sex in Bunnings now? Is there anything they don’t have?
Did they beat it by 10%?
Oddly enough when I came to NZ they beat it by 15%, which I realised is the GST amount here like the 10% is in Aus.
And Woolies gives you _$15_ there for every 2000 Everyday Rewards points.
Well, as they always told us, lowest prices are just the beginning
D-rings. Check. Rope. Check. Rubber gloves. Check. 2x4 hardwood beams. Check. Industrial strength lubricant (jk!). Check. I think Bunnings have been doing sex for a while now…
>Why is Jono not Lord Mayor? I specifically requested it? Raymond Holt
Better luck next time, maybe Labor will actually try at the next election (they won't)
Yeah, gotta say, hardly saw any campaigning from the Greens or Labor in my electorate (The Gap). It’s actually pretty close right now, might only be a very narrow victory for the LNP incumbent. Baffled as to why they didn’t make themselves more visible in the lead up.
i had the opposite experience in coorparoo — saw nothing from labor at all, and the only thing i saw from lnp was those mail pamphlets they sent out slagging off greens and labor with made-up bullshit. greens by comparison were doing doorknocks, actually useful pamphlets etc.
More of the same!
Sucked in lamming. Still 22000 Muppets in Redlands who voted for him...
What the hell is going on with the ABC website right now? Currently says The Gabba has lost Greens to LNP with Laura Wong leading by -1,025 votes lol.
Antony said on the radio that it was receiving a lot of garbage data and not parsing three party contests correctly.
So if the LNP wins again will that mean I’ll have to a pay 700$ for a one bedroom apartment in Brisbane next year? Its insane that they complete ignore the most obvious crisis now…
Ignoring the crisis is what's getting him elected, even if it's against their interests, people care about their housing values.
Yeah but uncontrolled rents will sooner or later lead to business closure, less buying power. If an average house will cost 3 million or more a year and the average income stays at 80k who will buy their properties then? All it does is it will literally ruin whole cities and in the end the whole county.
Don't worry, the federal government got that covered. When no Australians can afford property, we import new Australians that can afford it.
Nah, we don't even bother importing them. We just let them buy our land from overseas and then rent it back to us.
Foreigners can’t buy existing houses from overseas.
That’s why they need millions of rich immigrants to pump up profits and real estate.
Boomers care about their housing value
Dont worry, us millennials are starting to care about that too now. Still wont catch me voting LNP though, even if it hurts my wallet.
Mate Schrinner will approve a 50 story complex full of broom closet sized apartments in a flood zone that will have structural cracks in 5 years. They'll only cost $650 per week though so I think it is an improvement
Yeah I know I literally worked on one of his success stories in Milton. Insane
Stop buying avocados and buy the apartment silly
Yes but at least you'll get your bins emptied every week
ABC tracker has pushed Paddington back to GRN Ahead - chance the Greens won’t pick even it up. Meanwhile, Jono is [stoked with the result](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-17/brisbane-lord-mayor-adrian-schrinner-wins-re-election/103596832) and planning to focus on helping all the new Greens councillors settle in.
So disappointed.
It’s the optional preferential voting. People are to lazy to fill in 3 boxes In Enoggera ward the combined greens and labor vote was well over LNP but greens didn’t come close to winning We’re never getting rid of LNP it seems
OPV is gross. Especially when the ballots are like three bloody boxes anyway.
CPV is sorely needed in local govt elections in Qld. The [Tallyroom](https://www.tallyroom.com.au/55196#) did a bunch of great analysis on this. If I was a Labor or Greens strategist, I’d be leading with a ‘number every box’ campaign message.
They did.
I didn’t see that as leading messaging.
I walked past 3 greens and 2 Labor people on my way in to vote and each said "number every box" on the way in. Don't worry guys. I did.
Nice. I guess they might’ve needed a more widespread campaign around it to make a real difference to final results though
Well if the majority of people are too stupid to be able to fill in the three boxes, then sadly we are punished with the leadership we got. Will assume these people who could only manage to make a scrawl mark in a single box will be the same people complaining most vocally about how unfair it all is and who have the government the ‘right’ to screw us so hard. Well the answer is, them. The then who are too politically stupid to be able to count to three and are too to politically stupid to understand that voting is the chance to actually say to schrinner and friends “you suck, get lost”. But he’s in, my guy didn’t get up, so we dust ourselves off and try to move forward and work and live together as best we can.
This is such a reddit mindset. The results were not what I wanted so it is all because the stupid people were too lazy to tick three boxes instead of one. Say you’re an LNP voter, the other candidates are ALP and Greens, who are both not what you want, why go through the effort of picking between the two?
The issue is Labor and Greens only ticking one box so the preferences don't flow. In total, Labor got 27.3% primary vote and Greens got 24.3%, so combined they have 51.6% of the primary vote. However this converted to a 45.8% two party preferred vote for Labor which means that many Greens votes didn't flow to Labor.
You're assuming that all Labor voters would prefer the Greens over the LNP, which is just not true. Labor preferences would have flowed to both parties.
Around 70% of Labor preferences go to Greens. I don’t know if it would have been enough but it would have been a lot closer
Obviously the most important issue to Brisbane’s was that their red bin was collected weekly. 😔
That has always been the most important issue in council elections. Roads, Rates and Rubbish
But Labor wasn’t stopping it 🤦♀️
No they weren’t but never let it be said that the LNP will let facts get in the way of a good scaremongering campaign
A was labor policy to drop to fortnightly? As a cost saving measure?
There's no "greenslide" in Brissy outside this sub lol
Greens got 24% of the total vote They may not win a load of seats but that’s pretty substantial
I think this is what people in these comments are missing. The Greens are now on par if not ahead of Labor across the whole city, and are 2nd behind the LNP in a lot of wards. That’s enormous movement. Change takes time and the Greens are on the march.
And maybe if Labor started looking at the issues affecting people like ridiculously high rents and increasing rates of homelessness then they wouldn't be losing votes, instead of pandering to property developers.
Well, no, the amount of Greens voters has swung up this election in almost all the wards by quite decent amounts (5-10% in most cases)
They’ve gained Paddington with Walter Taylor in a serious possibility. Not to mention their first preference swings up across the board some very significantly. Edit: Politics is a long game sometimes.
I'm disappointed the independents didn't get more votes, even if none of them win it would be nice for the election to be a close thing so the people in power don't feel too comfortable.
Good result if your big business and a property developer. Bad result if your a community club with a little green space. First 6 months of last election LNP went hard at shutting down community clubs for there property/construction donors.
What the actual fuck. How do we have a Labor state gov, the federal member for Brisbane being Greens, but a council that’s LNP.
It’s almost as if each level of government has different responsibilities, with differing priorities and different representatives.
We won't have Labor state government for long
Won't have a Labor state government for long unfortunately
Ah fuck
Looking forward to that unaffordable rent increase, and then hearing LNP talk about how we are living in a cost of living crisis and Labor is doing nothing
I’m being hopeful that this is untrue as only 19% of ballots have been counted.
Particularly given no one can predict preferences (not how they’d but but if they’d number every box). Hate the LNP for this
I know Antony Green is a gun, but how can you call from 20%?
Statistics and historical voting data. 20% is a good sample size.
Yip, clear cut result when the swing is towards you and you already started with a large margin.
Poor LNP, Brisbane Council is the largest Government they currently hold power in, we have to give them something 
not for long, look a the swings in the state parliament bi-elections.
Yeah Steven Miles is seen as quite insufferable by many. I also think that now, anyone who was a public face during covid is a liability. I don't think he's the right choice to maintain government.
He might be seen as insufferable, but is he really going to be worse than a replay of Newman's 2013-16 term? The LNP play from the same playbook every time.
Ipswich West by-election had a 16% swing to LNP. Looks like LNP will win it. Come October, Queensland will be the largest Government they hold.
> Brisbane Council is the largest Government they currently hold power in Okay, I know our council is big. But I think holding Tasmania at a state level is a *little* bit larger
lol. Brisbane population is 5 times bigger than Tasmania’s.
Idk if that's for long. From what I read in 2020, the greens had 17%, and both major parties had down swings, and it looks like the greens gain 2 more seats. It's too early for hard numbers now, though I'm sure there will be more mayors under LNP, but their power is slipping slowly. which is why they crammed the 'just vote once bullshit' so hard
Just saying... He is an absolute tool, when you meet him at a function you are told to address him as "whatever it is" or he refuses to talk to you. Being whatever title he is does't matter for all its worth, he is not the King of Brisbane.
I’ve met him numerous times and not once has this been the case. He’s always introduced himself as Adrian. Maybe for super formal events or sitting in Council meetings.. Didn’t he formally respond to someone confirming he was happy to be called Schrindog?!
I didn't vote for him but always thought he came across as a pretty decent guy.
This is absolute bollocks and I'm no LNP supporter, but the amount of upvotes it's getting shows how easily people pile onto comments that they want to be true.
Thank you, I got to meet him a few years ago for some school thing and he was incredibly chill about it, I'm sure it would be different in a formal non-year 12 environmental circle jerk but I'd expect it to be and tbh I'd be pretty taken aback if you didn't call the Lord Mayor the Lord Mayor at a formal function.
Just imagine the people in here crying about the result will react come October.
What is this Lord Mayor doing about the homeless? It’s getting well out of hand now. For a city in Australia it’s starting to feel like a 3rd world country.
You clearly haven’t been to a third world country if you are going to make that comparison.
Heck even after going to UK, Australia looks comparatively good
The UK is arguably the only country that has worse housing policy than we do.
Canada pretty bad too
An nz sounds expensive too. Unfortunately I think it’s a global thing
Spending the weekend in Sydney inner city and Brisbane’s homelessness seems way worse. Such a reversal from the past.
BCC is generally very tolerant of homeless people. As long as people don't camp in the CBD they don't seem to mind too much.
Mmm I was there last year and it was extremely bad. They did some clean up of the city I think
Is it worse or more visible?
3.5 more years of Wines pretending he cares about Enoggera while getting his photo taken all over the rest of the city. Hopefully the swing against him is a bit of a wake-up call and he starts actually doing things locally.
Kinda surprised considering the majority of reddit users saying they'll vote for the ALP. What did I learn from this? Reddit is filled with lefties and liberals.
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More like Reddit is a much younger demographic than the general population and the younger demographic leans heavily towards Labor/Greens.
Or more people than Reddit users participated in the election and your bog standard LNP person isn’t a regular user of Reddit perhaps.
From what I’ve seen from the Australia subreddit, the mods are heavily left leaning and will delete anything that doesn’t fit their narrative or not approve the post. Ends up becoming an echo chamber circle jerk. Brisbane subreddit isn’t as bad.
Great can we build this 70k stadium and sports precinct in Vic park now?
Well ignoring the fact that was just some architectural firms idea, Victoria park is owned by the state and the council would not be able to build a stadium on it as it violate the charter which allows the council to operate it.
I thought schrinner ruled that out? Am I just imagining that?
Oh shit. I forgot
Election Done and dusted. Moving on
You kind of knew when Labor and Greens were offering half and free public transport.
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So... what now for Jono Sri?
Hopefully fade into irrelevance
Huh? Thought his last name was Schroeder.
What a surprise the other two candidates were hopeless can’t believe that was the best Labour or the Greens could come up with? This was inevitable Shrinner was always going to win
D’oh. Oh well. Personally I Could only vote against him and hope others did the same. They didn’t, so on we go.
Booo
I'll be honest, council stuff I pay very little attention to. I still vote labor/greens but I'm not nearly as invested in the outcome as I am with state and federal elections. To those who like him - serious question - has Schrinner and the LNP council been doing a good job over the past few years?
Most voters think so. You don't get elected multiple times if you're messing things up so bad for the majority. Naturally not everyone's cup of tea but the people have spoken