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"Peter Dutton to leave Coalition leaderless, conceding he has lost his seat of Dickson"
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It must be stated that the Labor party here are anything but progressive. They are centre-right by the most recent assessment of their values and support a variety of cunts in toxic industries who fund their campaigns.
The libs (our very right wing major party) ran an exceptionally incompetent campaign, with Dutton as a key soulless idiot who can’t admit to mistakes when it hits him in the face. They had a bit of headwind from the global anti Trump sentiment, but it wasn’t like we were in the same situation like Canada.
Regionally we already ARE the 51st state of the USA, because we provide them with much needed Southern Hemisphere intelligence bases which Australians have no right to visit, and they are our protector against any major military threat in the region.
It’s a minor victory for any progressive minded person, as any mention of action on the climate emergency was stupifyingly absent from the entire campaign.
It must be stated that the Labor party here are anything but progressive
I'm not sure how any of these things scream right wing:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-28/election-2025-key-promises-labor-coalition/104717394
I'm not sure how support for universal healthcare, renewables and the party having a gender quota is 'anything but progressive' but sure, they're centre right if your definition of right wing is anything right of the greens
Happy to have a bit of a debate over that. You can put them dead centre if that makes you feel better.
They certainly have some positives for the general public, and more so than the $.25 rebate promised by LNP. However, the majority of stuff they offer are stopgaps, instead of fixing the real underlying issues. High power bills aren’t going to go down with one off rebates. First home buyers 5% isn’t fixing the housing supply, or over demand, nor is it a solution to anyone over 40 who still hasn’t been able to buy, because a 5% deposit means you’ll pay for forever and then some. Same with tax cuts. Also Tax Cuts are right wing, though they are usually for the wealthy.
They are still all for really terrible corporate developments, they are still cosy with the coal lobby, they’re just smart enough to not bring a big beautiful lump of coal into parliament anymore. They won’t tax mega corporations fairly, they won’t do anything for the climate emergency, just boost green energy, without any serious international commitments or plans to reduce or go net zero in this term of this new government. None of that anywhere.
They tried one terribly worded referendum which probably blew the Aboriginal community a chance at some form of reconciliation for the next half a century, and there’s no more follow up. They have no solid plan for the housing crisis, just a few hand outs.
It’s not screaming right wing, and I didn’t say it was, and it certainly isn’t Trumpism, and our democracy is bar none one of the best and most secure in the world, but it isn’t progressive or left at all. It is fairly competent centrism, maintaining the status quo for corporate Australia, while minimally appeasing the plebeians, because thank fuck, it could have been so much worse. it is a shameful far cry from what we needed in order to really respond to the situation we’re in on the global timeline.
I'm a kiwi, so I only hear about Australia's most significant developments, but even then, some of the claims you're making are wrong.
the majority of stuff they offer are stopgaps, instead of fixing the real underlying issues.
They're probably putting in stopgaps to make it less painful while the fixes to the underlying issues gain steam.
High power bills [...]
This will probably be solved (or stop getting worse) as a side effect of Future Made in Australia investing in the Australian manufacture of renewable energy technologies, as Australian made versions are likely to be cheaper than global competitors (at least in Australia). It's also important to note that rising energy prices is not just an Australian problem, considering NZ's wholesale electricity price has risen >30% despite 80% of our electricity coming from renewables (and doesn't have variable running costs).
[...] housing supply, or over demand, [...]
This will probably be mitigated by the Housing Australia Future Fund as it is set up to be able to spend $500 million per year on housing in perpetuity without any additional funding. This means they could technically "sell" something like 2000 houses a year for free forever. On a more realistic note they could take a $50k loss on 10000 houses per year to help mitigate the housing supply problem.
[..] tax cuts.
It is technically possible to have tax cuts that benefit only those who are not already rolling in it, but those kinds of tax cuts are so uncommon you're likely to see a unicorn before they happen. The tax cuts are probably going to be something like the tax cuts we saw over here where the only ones that benefit are the already very wealthy.
[...] they are still cosy with the coal lobby, [...]
I was under the impression that they were majorly funded by the unions. Considering this winge piece complains about the mining industry paying 5x more in tax than they used to and makes the misleading insinuation that it is paying the majority of Australia's tax share, I'd say that they're probably not funded by the mining lobby. (Values from the Australian Treasury suggest that they're paying <10% of the total tax income)
[...] they won’t do anything for the climate emergency [and they don't have any] plans to reduce or go net zero in this term of this new government.
They appear to have this net zero plan I found on a .gov.au website? I notice it doesn't target net zero within the next 3 years because that's simply impossible. The climate action tracker suggests that Australia is doing better than NZ in terms of climate policy, especially considering our action is considered "highly insufficient."
You make the claim that it isn't progressive, but over here it certainly would be. Either way, we can still celebrate that it isn't Trumpism.
A very nice change of recent trends across the world
While I’m extremely happy about the election results, let’s not forget that the Conservatives were on track to sweep before Trump shit the bed so badly that the entire world had to hold its nose.
I'm glad our fuck up in the US is inspiring others to step back from the edge. It's at least a silver lining I can console myself with while everything crumbles around me.
Nobody wants to let Dutton be another Trump
Trump is dismantling the US government so his billionaire friends can buy it. He's not building a global populist movement, he's siezed power and he's using it for petty, selfish ends. The whole world can see it plainly
The rise of fascism in the US may have heralded worldwide rises in conservativism for a time, but now that Trump has absolute power, he's not bothering to hide his intentions. It's swung back the other way, now the US is making the world less fascist
Fascism's win condition is always its own destruction. It's a death cult. It can't win worldwide because it promotes selfish leaders who sabotage the movement for personal enrichment
It's gonna be okay, everyone
They're not going to stop trying just because they lost an election. Don't become complacent. Victory has not yet been accomplished, defeat has been postponed.
Fascism is an existential threat to all democratic countries.
The Australian Liberal party (note, they’re the Conservative Party) has taken an anti-climate change to the Australian electorate for a decade. Over time they lost power, they lost seats to independents who are aligned to Liberal party except on climate change, and now they’ve been reduced to a puddle due in part to their anti-climate agenda. There’s practically zero chance that the Liberal Party will ever campaign on an anti-Climate Change platform (despite what their corporate overlords want). Which means we may finally have clean air for a debate on policy and politics that’s not being hijacked by bullshit fossil fuel arguments.
This is progress, for sure.
The Trump effect is wild lmao
It's only partially responsible for this.
Significantly partially. In January Dutton started to style himself after Trump, even going so far as getting tips from the GOP, after Trump's win. However by mid-March Dutton was trying to backpedal rapidly but it was too late. Clearly not all his staff got the memo (esp Jacinta Price... oh dear) and everything he did or said could be met with a variation of "hold on, last week you were saying x".
Also I'd like to once again say thanks to the founders that gave us compulsory, preferential voting.
I hate the fact that it had to be the US that fell to these fascists... but at least it put the rest of the world on notice.
WWIII teams are forming up
It's going to be so weird helping the Germans defeat Nazi America
Same here (said the American)
Congratulations Australians!
As an American working on moving to Australia this was great news to wake up to!
🇨🇦🤝🇦🇺
The Canadian cons didn't actually boot Polievre, instead they're giving him an easy to win riding and a brand new seat in parliament so he can stay on. Which probably means he'll stick around and win the next election. I hate it.
Edit: autocorrect
Labour in the UK is looking so fucking stupid right now
Foreign elections being won based on real opposition to Trump and those that style themselves after him. Democrats can do this, but it means they would have to stop trying to make deals with nazis.
Good!! Some hope for this world is left.
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