A NSW Northern Rivers perspective on the 18 May 2019 Australian federal election results

A political and social perspective in thirteen tweets........

Yes, this is the #Australia #trump or #brexit moment. But not in the way talked about in this piece.

This is about the manipulation of our electoral system by wealthy and powerful individuals to achieve a specific multi-billion dollar outcome.

This is not a conspiracy theory. https://t.co/DoANEoxeV9

— Keith Williams (@Captainturtle) May 20, 2019

The entire #UAP campaign was about grabbing 4% of the vote and directing it to the LNP. It worked spectacularly well in Queensland.

These will turn out to be highly disengaged voters, the undecideds from a week out. Excluded from polls (explaining how the polls were so wrong)

— Keith Williams (@Captainturtle) May 20, 2019

If Clive spent $50 or even $80 million, don’t you think he spent some of that on analytics.

On targeting messages to the most receptive.

He was never trying to win seats, just keep #Labor out.

— Keith Williams (@Captainturtle) May 20, 2019

Clive’s pay-off is a Government and a group of very grateful Parliamentarians already keen to do his bidding.

So his #Galilee Basin mine isn’t rendered worthless. So a new #coal fired power station is built in North Qld.

It’s worth Billions to him.

— Keith Williams (@Captainturtle) May 20, 2019

Why did it work?

The LNP played its part. The Presidential style campaign was designed to focus everything on Bill Shorten.

Labor was vulnerable. Bill Shorten, even after My Mum and Hawkie, never became likeable Bill.

— Keith Williams (@Captainturtle) May 20, 2019

Like the #trump campaign, it was proceeded by years of tearing down the most likely challenger.#Hilary was damaged goods in the same way as #Shorten

Nothing like a sham Royal Commission to make your opponent appear shifty.

— Keith Williams (@Captainturtle) May 20, 2019

#Trumps win was based on suppressing the vote in key states in a voluntary voting system.

Here, it was capturing the vote of the people that didn’t want to be there in our compulsory system.

— Keith Williams (@Captainturtle) May 20, 2019

As to the links to #brexit

I’m assuming a man throwing $millions to influence an election is going to hire people with some experience in this endeavour.

I’m sure this mining magnate & former Liberal Party Treasurer has got the right connections.

— Keith Williams (@Captainturtle) May 20, 2019

And yes, like #brexit and #trump our largely supine media simply watched the shells and forgot all about the peas.

The show was everything.

And the chorus from the Murdoch stable was deafening.

— Keith Williams (@Captainturtle) May 20, 2019

It’s #GameOfMates writ large.

The same dynamic that drives the destruction of the #MurrayDarling and rewards the Nationals in NSW and Qld is working for the coal barons in North Qld.

— Keith Williams (@Captainturtle) May 20, 2019

It’s a system that preys on the disengaged. To get them to vote against their interests.

It relies on the belief that they’re all bastards...and then seeks to tell them who their true enemies are.

— Keith Williams (@Captainturtle) May 20, 2019

The point of this rant, however is not about how we was robbed.

As Bill Shorten put it, we didn’t get enough votes. Simple.

The question is, how do we reach the disengaged?

How do we leave ourselves less vulnerable to this attack in the future?

— Keith Williams (@Captainturtle) May 20, 2019

Because ranting about stuff on twitter does didly squat.

— Keith Williams (@Captainturtle) May 20, 2019