Labor has stormed to victory in the federal election and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will lead a majority government following a disastrous night for the Coalition and Peter Dutton.

At 8.24pm, less than half an hour after the final polls closed in Western Australia, 9News projected Labor had won the election.

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    3 hours ago

    Liberal party didn’t start in 2019.

    So which doubling of the debt were you talking about here?

    The government debt more than doubled under the liberal party

    I’m born into such wealth that the majority of my life has been drastically below the poverty line, enjoy your delusions.

    And you’re ok with Labor making it even harder for you to ever afford a house, afford basic things like food and clothing, and not being able to pay your power bill?

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      Abbot started in 2013 and the debt doubled before COVID started. It’s almost doubled again now but it went down for a year which is something the liberal party can’t do, apparently.

      They aren’t making it harder, my pay has gone up over $1/h because of my award and being casual, I have more money than ever and am pretty confident that I’ll be able to buy a house where I live without a big deal in a couple decades. My electricity hasn’t changed a whole lot, it’s still under 300 a quarter for the household and less during autumn/spring, the only thing that made it that high at all was getting AC installed.

      Sorry but Labor is consistently a decent party.

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        They aren’t making it harder, my pay has gone up over $1/h because of my award and being casual

        And your costs have gone up significantly more than $1/h.

        am pretty confident that I’ll be able to buy a house where I live without a big deal in a couple decades.

        WITHIN A COUPLE OF DECADES and you’re saying that like it’s a great thing!?

        My electricity hasn’t changed a whole lot

        That doesn’t match what the actual electricity prices and all reports say, so your situation is likely an edge case of shared bills and/or a battery system already exists.

        You sound like you’re young, right? Late teens/early twenties?

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          My primary cost increase was I spent too much money on a car and it’s not good on fuel and takes premium. That’s more than every other expense going up combined and it’s a very self inflicted problem.

          Idk about you but most people have decades of mortgages, so a couple decades is normal.

          I live rural so my prices on most things are different. No 700k average house price like in Adelaide. The electricity is the full house cost, we have solar but no battery because dropping all of my savings on a battery to save money on electricity that isn’t costing a whole lot for us seems pretty wasteful. Seems like a thing for people with bigger electricity bills.

          Almost 30, have seen throughout my life the liberal party doing consistent damage, and every time the Labor party shows up they pull us out of the shit and do a great job.

          Currently I am the most economically comfortable I’ve ever been, including all parts of childhood. I haven’t walked around a store doing math to figure out what I can actually afford in a couple years and I no longer have to think, well, if I run out of money I can live on oats for $30/w. Spent a lot of time pretty much exclusively eating oats. Not sure how well I’d go back to that given I spend that much in a day or 2 now on much nicer food.