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.

perhaps, but they also had an absolutely miserable campaign and labor was phenomenal… it wasn’t a single issue that they won on

It's going to be so weird helping the Germans defeat Nazi America

Hopefully more like Cold War II. And honestly, Australia's in a pickle there - most other democracies are pretty damn far away from it. They might try to do the Finland thing instead.

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.

It's only partially responsible for this.

Wait what? Source please

Ya, and also the conservatives lost by 1% of the popular vote, and had excellent numbers overall. I really wish we kicked them to the curb, but that's hardly the case. Sounds like Australia did a much better job.

I dunno, I'd like to try to be hopeful. The NDP has a real shot to completely rebrand and come back swinging. Convince Charlie Angus to come out of retirement and lead the party, and spend the next however-long-this-term-lasts rebuilding support. I can't think of a better outcome than having to Sophie's Choice between Carney and Angus. Imagine having to choose between 2 legitimately good party leaders.

The good news is that the riding he has to run in is incredibly rural. He's going to hate it.

Poilievre is a city boy. He grew up in the Calgary suburbs. Then he moved to Ottawa to become an MP. The only job he's ever had involving physical exertion is when he was a paperboy as a kid. Now he's going to have to spend some time in his new riding surrounded by farmers. The biggest "city" there has a population under 20k. Everything else is towns, villages and hamlets. Assuming he buys a house in Camrose, if he wants Thai food, he'll have to drive over an hour to get to Edmonton.

Maybe because the conservatives have such an overwhelming majority in Battle River - Crowfoot, they won't care that he's a carpetbagger and he won't have to put much effort in there. But, I think eventually he'll have to spend some time in his riding, and it will be a major culture clash.

Make sure you open a Seattle style teriyaki joint there!

Almost the exact playbook as in Canada. Except it's a close minority here. But the Maple Maggot, after losing his own seat, has decided to take over another MP's seat in a by-election.

Mot really, Labor did nothing over the last 3 years and get rewarded for that as well as Greens losing a few seats.

Best case scenario was minority Labor gov shared with the Greens.

I dont know the actual justification behind it but i would say:

1. The Liberal party here love protecting business interests and giving pretrochem companies huge incentives, tax breaks, etc to take our resources and they probably get hard for how much more fuel they can sell here.
2. Australia has inexplicably bad fuel standards, as such car manufacturers dump their shittest engines here which run on this low grade fuel and every time we talk about reforming this the manufacturors run a scare campaign about how much extra cars will cost if they have to meet these standards and the Libs have been jumping on that.

As to the big cars thing, we have typically had quite regular sized cars and our typical tradesperson vehicles (called "Ute's" here, "trucks" in the USA) were significatly smaller than their american equivilants, but local manufacturing shut down and now we buy from whats available on the market. Also the laws around taxing work vehicles is worded in such a way that bigger cars get taxed differently and incentivises people buying these cars and slowly our car sizes are increasing and more and more giant 'Yank Tanks' are appearing on our roads. And couple this with car manufacturers slowly changing the publics idea of what a 'family car' is from a large sedan to a small suv to a full blown suv or 4x4 7 person tank.

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If your cock looks like Dutton, I recommend seeing a doctor immediately.

He's a dildo with ears. Or a potato with ears, depending on the angle you view him from.