The ABC is giving the National Party 18 seats in the NSW lower house at present, a substantial gain.
OMG, they will have nearly as many as the ALP. How long would it be since that happened? 1890 maybe?
I venture to say that compares rather favourably with the piddlin performance of those who purport to speak for the future - ie the Greens.
How many seats are the Greens going to have? Remind me somebody.
One is it, or NONE?
Why a National Party resurgence?
DEspite the fraudulent attempts by Labor to brand some of their candidates as "Country Labor", the residents of regional and rural NSW have had the sense to see them as the same bunch of dills as the rest of Labor.
And as for voting Independent, well I think it's pretty obvious they are not going to make that mistake again, except in exceptional circumstances.

bogarde73 wrote on Mar 27^th, 2011 at 3:07pm:

The ABC is giving the National Party 18 seats in the NSW lower house at present, a substantial gain. OMG, they will have nearly as many as the ALP. How long would it be since that happened? 1890 maybe? I venture to say that compares rather favourably with the piddlin performance of those who purport to speak for the future - ie the Greens. How many seats are the Greens going to have? Remind me somebody. One is it, or NONE? Why a National Party resurgence? DEspite the fraudulent attempts by Labor to brand some of their candidates as "Country Labor", the residents of regional and rural NSW have had the sense to see them as the same bunch of dills as the rest of Labor. And as for voting Independent, well I think it's pretty obvious they are not going to make that mistake again, except in exceptional circumstances.

good to see the nats back in business!

longweekend58 wrote on Mar 27^th, 2011 at 3:58pm:

bogarde73 wrote on Mar 27th, 2011 at 3:07pm: The ABC is giving the National Party 18 seats in the NSW lower house at present, a substantial gain. OMG, they will have nearly as many as the ALP. How long would it be since that happened? 1890 maybe? I venture to say that compares rather favourably with the piddlin performance of those who purport to speak for the future - ie the Greens. How many seats are the Greens going to have? Remind me somebody. One is it, or NONE? Why a National Party resurgence? DEspite the fraudulent attempts by Labor to brand some of their candidates as "Country Labor", the residents of regional and rural NSW have had the sense to see them as the same bunch of dills as the rest of Labor. And as for voting Independent, well I think it's pretty obvious they are not going to make that mistake again, except in exceptional circumstances. good to see the nats back in business!

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hear, hear!!!! So good to see the Independents given the flick. Only those truly Independent will survive. In our area the Mayor put himself up as an Independent, but is a well known Labor supporter. He got more votes (marginally) than the Labor rep, probably leaving the Labor candidate seething, but the National won the day. A GREAT result!! Both locally and statewise. ;D ;D ;D ;D

Great to see that the Independents in both Tamworth and Port Macquarie were quite soundly defeated.  Two of the three amigos will have food for thought, especially the younger of the two.  He'll be worth watching now to see if he comes out with any more "sexy and juicy" parliamentary wisdom .

I suspect the Nats resurgence will be short lived, thay are about to remind people why they were almost extinct.

Dnarever wrote on Mar 27^th, 2011 at 4:52pm:

I suspect the Nats resurgence will be short lived, thay are about to remind people why they were almost extinct.

oh cheerful charlie s here...might have guessed we would have a Well Done..I didnt vote for them but good luck all the same..

narrrrrrr just gloom and doom.. go chew on a cockroach dna. the labs have plenty I hear..lol...its the NSW labs that are almost extinct hilarious.

longweekend58 wrote on Mar 27^th, 2011 at 3:58pm:

bogarde73 wrote on Mar 27th, 2011 at 3:07pm: The ABC is giving the National Party 18 seats in the NSW lower house at present, a substantial gain. OMG, they will have nearly as many as the ALP. How long would it be since that happened? 1890 maybe? I venture to say that compares rather favourably with the piddlin performance of those who purport to speak for the future - ie the Greens. How many seats are the Greens going to have? Remind me somebody. One is it, or NONE? Why a National Party resurgence? DEspite the fraudulent attempts by Labor to brand some of their candidates as "Country Labor", the residents of regional and rural NSW have had the sense to see them as the same bunch of dills as the rest of Labor. And as for voting Independent, well I think it's pretty obvious they are not going to make that mistake again, except in exceptional circumstances. good to see the nats back in business!

Agree.
Australia needs a good strong Nationals group for the benefit of all the people who live outside of the cities.

Terrific to see.

The more Nationals, the less Greens - the better off the country will be.

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Mar 28^th, 2011 at 10:51am:

longweekend58 wrote on Mar 27th, 2011 at 3:58pm: bogarde73 wrote on Mar 27th, 2011 at 3:07pm: The ABC is giving the National Party 18 seats in the NSW lower house at present, a substantial gain. OMG, they will have nearly as many as the ALP. How long would it be since that happened? 1890 maybe? I venture to say that compares rather favourably with the piddlin performance of those who purport to speak for the future - ie the Greens. How many seats are the Greens going to have? Remind me somebody. One is it, or NONE? Why a National Party resurgence? DEspite the fraudulent attempts by Labor to brand some of their candidates as "Country Labor", the residents of regional and rural NSW have had the sense to see them as the same bunch of dills as the rest of Labor. And as for voting Independent, well I think it's pretty obvious they are not going to make that mistake again, except in exceptional circumstances. good to see the nats back in business! Agree. Australia needs a good strong Nationals group for the benefit of all the people who live outside of the cities. Terrific to see. The more Nationals, the less Greens - the better off the country will be.

Interesting albeit biased interpretation of the facts there, folks...

If one looks at the overall proportion of votes, the NSW Greens currently sit almost exactly where the NSW Nats sat after the last NSW election - yet the NSW Nats held 13 seats in the last NSW Lower House and are expected to hold 17 in the new Parliament...

Here's the latest snapshot from the ABC...

http://www.abc.net.au/elections/nsw/2011/

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Now the conservative, National Party-voting farmers have begun an activist campaign that green groups would be proud of. For the past 12 months they have manned a blockade to stop the mining companies' exploration work. The action has meant court hearings and the issue has split the National Party.

I say here here.

Good NATIONALS for doing so well.
But I fear that it will be short-lived.

Eventually the Greens will ditch their leftist "legalise Heroine, legalise gay marriages, etc" and concentrate on the conservative 'Environmental' issues.

So in essence the Environmentalist will eventually do better than their cousin of the Land, the Farmer.
Lets face it, the Environmentalist is more intelligent than a Farmer and Australia's history of Farming and methods has been one of those most 'dumbest' and 'destructive' in the world - very unprogressive that takes pride in its past, rather than faith in its future.

I think this is just a National Party 'renaissance' or a last supper before the final act.

Most City people think of Farmers as "big eared, dumb inbreeds",

Most Environmentalists think of City people as "stupid Processing Plant workers"  ;D

Listening to the Country Hour on the ABC radio farmers are Ecstatic that they have the Nationals back representing farming and also now  calling for the promise bridges and roads fixed in their rural areas.

This is a good outcome as I was worried  mining may have been  taking over our food bowls.

cods wrote on Mar 27^th, 2011 at 5:37pm:

Dnarever wrote on Mar 27th, 2011 at 4:52pm: I suspect the Nats resurgence will be short lived, thay are about to remind people why they were almost extinct. oh cheerful charlie s here...might have guessed we would have a Well Done..I didnt vote for them but good luck all the same.. narrrrrrr just gloom and doom.. go chew on a cockroach dna. the labs have plenty I hear..lol...its the NSW labs that are almost extinct hilarious.

I seem to recall how cheerfull you were when Labor won the federal election, besides just disagree witht the title - the nats have been on the slide (and the nose) for a long time. Only delaying the inevitable.

Jasignature, I think you are wrong about the Greens ditching their leftist "legalise Heroine, legalise gay marriages, etc".

The extreme policies of the Greens on let's call it a social agenda (although it's hardly very social) are IMO their REAL policies. The environmental issues are a cloak to pull in the punters just as dopy old Bob Brown is the "nice" face of the Greens.
The Greens worldwide were long ago taken over by extremists who are running an agenda to undermine western democracy and the free enterprise system. Part of this agenda is the undermining of social values by pushing homosexual lifestyles and other weird philosophies in order to divide society.

Forunately good commonsense mainstream Australia has started to wake up to these extremists and that is why we have seen their abysmal performance in this election. They were not elected to govern the country but that is what they are trying to do in Canberra and people can see that and don't like it one bit.