Australia federal election comes in swinging to the left with conservative opposition leader losing his seat
Labor defies early polls to claim win as count continues
Safe to say, Australians did not like what they were seeing in the USA. A resounding majority win is huge considering they only just formed minority Government in their previous term.
to the left
yet still barely over the left centre part of the political spectrum. Cautious optimism, with the heavy emphasis on cautious.
to the left
yet still barely over the left centre part of the political spectrum
Yeah, I chuckled at that. Labor is centrist with MPs soft right and soft left around the centre. The Greens are left but they lost 2 seats.
Still a huge swing left in context of the last election.
Careful Australia. Our spineless opposition leader is having another MP resign his seat so he can run in a by-election there. The riding he chose voted 80% Tory.
Wait, actual?
Yup! They got the safest of safe Albertan Conservatives to just cuck himself publicly (that's what they like to say? Right?) for Poilievre's benefit, because an "unstoppable movement has grown under his leadership."
Yep
That shit mostly doesn’t fly here. Parachute candidates traditionally do very poorly. We have preferential voting and about a 3rd of primary votes go to minor parties, and independents. Protest votes are a big problem for the majors to deal with.
Welcome to the club Australia! Now it's time to get to work and put measures in place to prevent what's happening in the US from happening in our countries.
We are lucky enough to have the royals as a check and balance. The moment an authoritarian party gets into power the Governor/Queen can and has previously booted the ruling Government out. (See Prime Minister Menzies controversy)
Edit: correction it was the Whitlam controversy.
So true. But the more roadblocks the better. Just to be safe.
The moment an authoritarian party gets into power the Governor/Queen can and has previously booted the ruling Government out. (See Prime Minister Menzies controversy)
Could you expand on that please ? I assume you're not referencing Gough Whitlam's dismissal by the GG at the behest of the CIA ?
I've had a quick search and can't find anything pointing to conflict between Menzies and the Crown, nor anything suggesting the monarch or the GG booted him out. Could be a searching failure on my part of course so info appreciated
Send the Nazis packing.
And so quickly after they started counting the votes it was immediately obvious. Feels good.
i love that the WA polls hadn’t even closed when they called it
Thank you Oz! ✊
It was because of rap
Looking forward to a fun friendly jeordies upload tonight
Canada 🤝 Australia
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