Independent Zali Steggall has taken out former prime minister Tony Abbott in the battle for the New South Wales seat of Warringah. Mr Abbott, who had held the electorate for 25 years, lost the seat after seeing more than a 13 per cent swing against him.
In his concession speech, Mr Abbott says he knew the campaign would be difficult, but conceded he would 'rather be a loser than a quitter'. Ms Steggall says she will be a 'climate leader' for Warringah, promising to hold the new government to account on climate change. Image: News Corp Australia
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Methinks she will go same way as Maxine who took Howard's seat - certainly gone in 3 years. Again education lacking since Left followed Gramscki's dumb down kids, starting 1960's banned DP which made Justice soft and chaos via UN refugees who wont assimilate just bludge mainly
Ah , they dnt need her vote so , shes useless
Can't wait to see 'zali' at the next melb. comedy festival ......Gee ,hope i can get a ticket
I see she going to hold herself to account by changing her vehicle and getting solar panels?
Whatever Zali. I'm afraid she is irrelevant.
real climate science
No one will listen to the hypocritical dullard!
With a goverment comfortable majority she is erelavent. Hope she puts more effort into the area homeless and youth unemployment
until she puts 20 wind turbines in her own electorate she is a nobody, doesn't even have solar at her home Typical green hypocrite dailytelegraph smh SeaEagles ManlyDaily australian AlanJones BenFordham TomElliott3AW LiberalAus AngusTaylorMP ScottMorrisonMP
Poor old Zali, she may have won the battle but she sure as hell lost the war. The people of Warringah will rue their decision irrespective of who held the seat before!! The libs majority means she is a LAME DUCK MP, with no voice and no leverage!
Vote not required! Why can’t she just help the environment in Warringah
Leader? Without GetUp! and the unions, she never would have won Warringah. Her mandate is a house of cards.
She’ll have to shout loud being a lonely voice for the dead climate propaganda. Steggall will be history at the next election mst like the former 6 month member for Wentworth.
So Zali you have +50% of all your energy needs met by renewables? All the products and services you use have been created by the same energy source? Electric car and train and plane as well 🤪 Yet another emocracy peddler all about NIMBY energy
I feel for the electorate! She will have little impact in view of the seats won by LNP.
and the world is flat would be right in there too I imagine. Apol
She'll be sidelined. Either govern sensibly or be ignored by the peoples' choice of governance.
No one listening zalisteggall you’re just a fraud!
How?
How ? This was the 'climate change election' and climate change lost. auspol
I don’t know Zali but I do know she was not articulate: “oh Wow Wow”. It wasn’t her 14thbirthday party. Where was the depth? Poor old Warringah
Did I hear the other day that whatever we do about climate change will only amount to .4/1000 of a percent in terms of world reductions? Really?
Does Zali have an opinion on any issue other than climate change?
zalisteggall No solar panels on the roof and drives a big fuel guzzler. Way to go.There is no climate crisis save your breath
Haha ,they dont need her vote , shes useless
She’s irrelevant already 😂😂
Best of luck - you’ll need it
How will she hold anyone to account. She's one small person against a majority govt. She has zero power to do anything.
We have a SHY in the lower house god help us
She did say on Saturday night today started this morning
Will she walk or ski to work.
Don't need her bye bye
Um, the Govt don’t need your vote in either House Zali, so how exactly do you propose to, quote “hold the new government to account”
Hahaha.. we’ll see how important you are
Zali is a nobody in parliament.....
Stick a wind farm up your are.
What exactly is she going to do? Ride a bike to the office? Farting abstinence? What?
Feel sorry for the people of Warringah, they have won a getup chook in the last Saturday raffle, The Warringah people will now have to pay for and care for this getup chook for 3 years before they can roast it and carve it up, getup will of course provide zero maintenance .
She will prove to be a waste of space !!
Warringah F'd up here. She will have zero impact as the Coalition does not need her for supply and the senate looks to be supportive for the Coalition too. She (and Warringah will receive minimal federal support) and she is out of her depth. GetUp! will abandon this lame duck.
Best of luck with that one!
And so she’s order new Solar panels, bought an Electric Car and disconnected from the main energy grid, I think not, a hypocrite
She will get smacked and be gone in 3 years.
Seems like she’s going to be totally irreverent
Warringah HAS THROWN ITSELF under a HUGE bus. Their hero is all ''piss & wind''
If she really cared about the climate she would hold the Chinese and Indian Government’s accountable.
. She'll be OK. She'll have daily counselling and strategy sessions, by phone, with her mentor, Prof Dr K Phelps. 😲😂
She forgets that the child care plan was Bill's. How ya gonna pay for 5 kid care now? Don't ask PD for a live in nanny from Narnia! No, you want get staff to do it either.
Before you start, show us the bill for your solar panels on your roof. We'll wait until you actually start before we check your EV people mover!
Only in whacked-out clown world could an ex-alpine skier who probably has a lifetime carbon budget exceeding the average Australian family by at least an order of magnitude assert that she's going to tackle climate change. auspol
What about the vulnerable who just found out they were discarded for 30 pieces of silver?
I’m kind of sick of hearing how important Warringah is supposed to be to me. How about they all go buy EV’s and solar panels like,right now
She wont last
Good on her if she can, but it's a numbers game & they'll fend her off, & what will her response be?
Ya dreaming zalisteggall
Well let’s see if she leads by example. I’m expecting to see her with solar panels on her house and an electric car...as a starting point.
Good on here that was the platform she stated and the voters voted her in to represent them
Before that she needs to do some real research on climate science and not follow the alarmist sheeple.
You're nothing but a protest vote with no meaningful policies. Australia spoke, maybe you should listen
Good luck with that
The way the numbers have worked out in the Reps and Senate, Zali will spend the next 3 years doing her nails, her vote in the Parliament is worthless
Maybe reduce the politicians in Warringah to nil to help reduce the root cause of human pollution - out of control population growth.
More wind mills in Warringah!! Oh, that’s right, there are none there!!!
And what army? 😂
Is she going to put solar panels on her own roof and get rid of her gas guzzler
Of course she is a global warming loonie like all the rest of them.
More like the Mob leader.
Good - do it!!
Good luck, they have no voice ant more
Sure she is .... they really have to take notice of her don't they.
Warringahans deserve Steggall
Zali I hope you have solar on your house and you will catch the electric train to work and not a limo and walk where you can. And fly economy and no private jets. Actions speak louder than words ‘climate crusader’.
Climate leader my ...........
Steggall you have a big ride aheaf😄
1 x term only ,Warringah may grant her. Abbott deserved much more respect than he recieved :'GET UP' filthy tactics.
Just what the world needs, a climate leader for Warringah
A new country called Warringah?
zalisteggall can we hear your plan? Have not heard any details from you other than big statements and no substance. Looking forward to seeing the pic of your new electric car / climate leaders lead by example
How will she do this, has she got a CO2 meter
Lets see Lets see😄
Excellent zali. Climate leaders lead by example. When can we expect to see your new electric car, home charging station and solar panels on the roof?
The people rejected the climate scam !
Lol....an independent 'holding the government to account' These people believe their own press releases.
As soon as she votes for Labor for the first time Warringah voters will realise what the did is vote for a GetUp and Turnbull supported candidate they’ll see her true colours.
Do us a favour and make zalisteggall the Speaker of the house. ScottMorrisonMP auspol
If that is all she stands for, Warringa you made a mistake.
Is she going to do anything else?
FFS you will get no fresh air, Warringah lucky your footy team is going well
How about she holds her own staff accountable for their disgusting tactics, in particular those that stabbed a Liberal supporter 😡
Good luck you will need it.
Maybe start Zali by installing solar panels at your place and buying a 7 seater electric vehicle from Tesla - we know it’s expensive but please do what you’re expecting others to do
She'll be utterly useless. Doesn't hold any balance of power and is as shallow as a puddle of fly piss. People of Warringah, you are getting exactly who you deserve.
So buy some electric cars ...you have two gas guzzlers ....get solar, build a compost ....... 🦗 didn’t think so
Hopefully the numbers land such that she is politically impotent. We can only hope. Otherwise she’ll be a bloody wrecker.
You are dreaming zalisteggall you won’t do anything. Australia is not Warringah
How exactly will you do that?
Really more climate crap. Tell us what the cost will be of your package to save the climate zalisteggall
She has no power to do anything. Just ignore her for 3 years, then a lib will be back there.
You got Abbott out. Shows how far out of touch he was. Man that must really burn. Jones is going to go off his nut tomorrow. If you see an old man in a pink tie hanging around your car, hes checking for a powerpoint. Don't put up with it... apparently he has form in loitering.
All by your lonesome? With Australia against you?
Zali, the CC zealot, will soon have all those leering supporters riding pushbikes everywhere.
Delusional left
All the people of Warringah have done is elect a cross bencher with no power. She can represent the wealthy of Warringah and there climate alarmist virtue signalling while those of us in regional Australia can sit back and smile at the fact she can do nothing for them federally.
She stands for nothing else
Did she say when she is going to lead by swapping her huge SUV for an EV and have her house go solar? She sure doesnt do as she preaches. Just a 1 trick show pony. steggal
They can put a solar panel between the gap in her front teeth 💪
Party time, Party time. Fucking TonyAbbottMHR has been defeated. Horrah. Party time.
Will the blonde bimbo lead by example, with an electric car, pushbike, solar panels, and no more plane flights.
Maybe she should start by buying a Tesla and install solar panels to her own house before preaching.. fkin hypocrite.
No:
I hope she holds them to account on more issues than that. Australians should not have to suffer privatisation of health , education. Underemployment , starvation wages, cruelty to indigenous people, refugees or the disabled. The list of Aussie fears is huge.
My prediction - she'll do absolutely NOTHING for Warringah - and lose the next election. We'll not see Zali again after that !
Warringah is going to get a wind turbine farm on Beacon Hill! Just ask Zali Steggall!
Not sure whether this is arrogance or foolishness but if she is an independent without balance of power she won’t have much of a platform
She won sadly. But does this mean her violent supporters will now stop stabbing folks and destroying other parties property?
Why would people vote for someone with no idea, no policies and no impact on our great country
Yep, sure !! I can just see The Gov paying attention to little Ind Steggal she’ll be a non- entity incapable of pushing any kind of agenda
76 seats will endorse your position as a waste of oxygen
If zalisteggall has any moral compass at all, she'd admit that the win was underhanded and she was a puppet, and therefore better work her arse off.
Be intersting to find out exactly how much the marxist collective spent getting this climate moron elected eh ?
ZaliSteggall won't be doing shit!
But there is no climate issue at all. Its called weather.
There is no shield around us. Even if we could magically bring our emissions down to zero, it would only take two more months of Chinese emissions to cancel that reduction out. A carbon tax is like paying someone else to go on a diet.
Going to get found out very quickly
She must have supernatural powers.....
Zali will have no power to do anything on climate policy when the Coalition wins a majority. She won't have her 'Get up' thugs in parliament house to push everyone around!
She may find it is not all bad
zalisteggall there are hundred more things then climate change you are going to have to deal with! You've no idea what's about to hit! You think the election run was tough, wait till people and businesses start hammering you with their wants and requests! And you better deliver!
Delusional about her position in govt. Sit in the corner & be quiet. She will vote with Labor despite saying different. Warringah people are cut in the cold. Climate change champion one of the stupid.
I almost feel sorry for her, almost ... Tony's mates will eat her alive and make her life hell for the next 3 years .. She will lead nothing and go no where ... scores get settled in the house, make no mistake ...
Experienced pollies will make it very hard for this tree hugging climate change warrior. One term for her like Phelps.
If LNP win a majority government the people of Warringah will have voted for a member who will be irrelevant and achieve nothing for them or the country. ausvotes auspol
Good luck with that Zali . People of Warringah you will now get what you deserve – absolutely nothing.
Most people from Warringah woke up this morning realising they elected a wet lettuce ... LNP have won the election which puts her in an irrelevant back bencher role with no party support ... no tunnel either ... how to trash your area overnight from major party senior to a nobody
Maybe she should start with herself and get an EV and some solar panels!
This campaign set a new low bar for Australian politics. Nothing to be proud of here.
So what does that even mean? Man made CO2 accounts for 3% globally of which 3% is supposedly Australia’s contribution (bs I think) and global CO2 is only 0.038-0.04% of the atmosphere! Are pollies the new gods who can control the weather? More BS I think!
People who voted Independent in Warringah and Wentworth are waking up today thinking 'what the F% have I just done'. Steggall might aswell not show up in Canberra.
now definitely a waste of a seat, getup and her can now be fully ignored in parliament, resign before you become forgotten, so stupid, can now look forward to having only its own bowel movements controlled by getup, zero account to hold
and just how plan on doing that zali?
She will be gone long before the next election. Claims of bullying or sexism whatever sounds good at the time. Totally out of her league.
Coalition majority = you are irrelevant
Steggle will achieve bugger all, she's a guppie swimming with sharks, no experience whatsoever in parliament and a labor stooge put there by get up and funded by George sorros, Adolf hitlers henchman, with money stolen from dead Jews murdered in the holocaust during WW2.
They just want Abbott out, who care your climate change?
My god another one
OMG, Warringah what have you done. I doubt Zali will achieve anything for the electorate. Her terrible acceptance speech was embarrassing to watch, she stumbled throughout her her speech and offered no vision whatsoever for her term in office.
Oh look...A Liberal with solar
still driving her big petrol 4wd and no solar panels way to be a hypocrite leader gone next election when people wake to the fact
How?
Get Ups, or should I say Antifas underhanded tactics got this one voted in.
I hope people in warringah have realised that when tony abbott spoke the media listened when steggall speaks it will be who gives a shit so you deserve all you loses get.
Sadly Warringah will learn nothing will now happen for 3 years and all she can do is look for excuses
And just like Phelps she will gone after the next election 😂
I really wish you all the best with that. If you think we voted for your platform, you’re mistaken. It was to get Tony Abbott out. That’s it.
A one term wonder who will need to moderate her view as the nation has spoken
Zali's reality!
From where? The back row? Prediction: The lefty media will sing her praises, despite having virtually no impact... sounds familiar.
Instead of having a representative in government, they now have a Neville nobody that will do nothing for the electorate. Smart move people 😩😩😩😩
Good luck with that one.
Not when they don’t need your vote in the senate.
How exactly will you achieve anything? Independent with no balance of power. Good luck 👍
Good luck with that LNP just don’t care! You will be peddling uphill. auspol
So thousands of wind turbines in Warringah then? No Cars, no Buses, no meat or diary products. Removal from the national grid so Warringah residents can survive on renewables. That would be some real climate leadership. Good Luck Warringah! LOL!
Been this not even a day let’s hear your maiden speech first before you start flapping the gums
What are you going to do Steggall? You’ll be way out of your depth I fear!
So she is now going to sell her 4x4 and buy a electric car and get some solar panels on her roof .🤫🤫🤫🤫
No she won't. Climate is a dead issue and all she'll be doing for the next THREE years is pork barrelling.
Has she bought those solar panels and an electric car yet?
I really wanted her to win, but her victory speech left me second guessing - how absolutely inarticulate and unintelligent it was - no substance at all, she was just flapping about in the water- very hard to watch, particularly after Abbott had so eloquently conceded. 🙄
Says the one that drives a car that runs on petrol & doesn’t have solar panels on her house roof to generate household power. The global warming cult is purely based on destroying a countries economy & it’s people. Aussies are on to this bs thus the 2019 election result.
Off you go then. Let’s see you sell your car for an electric one and put up your solars
Warringah how could be so stupid to vote for this greenie
What a cracker. Zali will be in for one term and be gone and it’s hard to imagine what she will have contributed, except for a bunch of criminals who delight in destroying other peoples property and if that doesn’t work just bash & stab. Lovely people, take em home for dinner.
One vote out of 151. Let’s see how she will influence policy. One term wonder...
Someone is having delusions of grandeur.
Cool over something that doesn't exist. Just Ike the ozone debate. Fact will eventually rise to the top
Good luck
If she’s going to make a difference then she needs to start by getting rid of the Hummer that was towing her campaign trailer. 🤨🤨
Zali Steggall will be absolutely no use to the ppl of Warringah. Well done Warringah. You got what you deserve. A lame duck!
yeah, good luck with that. zalisteggall is irrelevant. Lol
Yeah right! Go sit in the corner zalisteggall, you’ve got the numbers to change nothing. If you want to appeal to your base, go shit in a book or graffiti something. democracytantrum usefulidiot Auspol
Of course you will, you and your failed socialist buddies
How? Just how can she!!!! She can’t!!!
The question is: How will she hold them to account ? Utterly delusional.
Empty vessels make the most sound
Yeah right Zali, they’re gonna listen to you !
we will get nothing n Warringah in the next 3 years
The new leader of the delusional left
BREAKING: Snapshot of Zali’s office earlier today... (we wish good luck to Warringah residents and businesses as they go off the grid) 👋 👍
Won’t last, libs to get 77 seats and dominate in the Senator!
Buy an electric car and show everyone you will back the words up. Betting you won’t and this talk is dribble
😂
zalisteggall You are a non-Independent Green disgrace & you will be a 1 term wonder, minus the wonder! dud
Put into power by GetUp, funded by George Soros. What a blight on Australian politics.
Warringa is in limbo for 3 years, sit up the back of Parliament House and shut up you and your shire are irrelevant for the time being, off you go zali take your knitting needles with ya, that should pass your unproductive time
Climate warrior..
it's hard to comprehend how Warringah replaced a fierce patriot with a pure vanity.
Haha one term wonder.
Not sure how she thinks she can hold the government to account, when they may govern in their own right. She will all noise with no action. Watch Warringah change again in 3 years
She’ll do as she’s told
She’s deluded
Yeah good luck you’ll only last one term zalisteggall your mate Alex Turnbull has disappeared into oblivion 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Has anyone told her that Warringah doesn’t have its own atmosphere and neither does Australia which means she will deliver absolutely nothing for her electorate in the three years prior to getting voted out in a landslide.
don’t let them have there left wing republic they want to run it piss them off don’t let them
Has she got that ELECTRIC VEHICLE or the SOLAR PANELS yet?
So windmills going up on every street corner in elitist Warringah? ...Zali ditching her gas-guzzler for an electric car? (falsely said type she’d need was unavailable!) ..finally condescending to put solar panels on her rooftop? Can we expect consistency anytime soon? Outsiders
If you really want to piss the lunatic left of Fitzsimmons and Carlton have been drawing graphs for mths for when shorten wins they can have a left wing republic they called it I sent a tweet asking if it’s true Muslims had infiltrated the movement they went ballistic
How is she going to hold anyone too account ?
More like a climate nut job
What, by herself 😂 Good luck with that.
This from the woman that doesn’t even use rechargeable batteries in her vibrator 😳
The wealthy dictating to the poor & working class what sacrifices they have to make for the 'greater good'. What a load of bull.
Here’s an idea. Those in Warringah should remove themselves from the grid and use 100% renewables until the next election. No cars either.
Waste of Space Getup stooge
Taking action on climate change is like going shopping. Wasting lots of money just to buy happiness and all it gets you in the end is useless stuff and debt!
And off drives zalisteggall into the sunset!
Off to Tesla in the morning? zalisteggall
Unfortunately for Zali, she’ll be spending three years sitting there making no difference at all to anything, her whole campaign and Get Up money (read filthy lucre) revolved around Labor winning office she is an Independent Green/Labor candidate after all
That's a laugh only one voice .
Let's hope they don't need you
Sorry zalisteggall based on last night's result, I think that ship has sailed..... using diesel!
You aren’t going to achieve anything. You’re just like the rest of the Labor Par... sorry, independents. All populist bullshit talk and no action. I wouldn’t be getting to comfortable in Parliament House if I were you.
So... that’s the climate sorted then ?
The KFC Party
What about the climate? It’s all good nothing to see here.
Has she ordered her solar panels and her electric car yet or is she still pulling power from the coal power stations and driving her 4x4
How does she plan to get people to manly if we cant use diesel powered ferries? Now that she won, is there an electric powered car in her driveway?
And buy an electric car a windmill and get solar .....
Good.
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