Legalize cannabis party and the trumpet one aren’t independents
Comment on Can someone explain Australian parties to me?
CTDummy@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Y’all have first past the post / winner takes all, don’t you? There was a vote recently and “labor” won from what I’m reading?
We have a (ranked choice voting) preferential vote system. You number your choices (1-8 for house of rep and 1-6 or 1-12 for senate). If the absolute majority isn’t obtained on first count the preferences are distributed until a majority is gained and that majority forms government.
Labor, coalition, independents, etc. what kinds of parties are these?
Centre-left (progressive), centre-right (conservative) and varied respectively. Independents can be anything from legalise cannabis through Kitkat Palmers (billionaire) wannabe Trump party. Ranked choice allows for support of smaller parties but still picking one of the main two if it comes down to a close call.
I thought Albanese was a “cunt” yet his party seems to have won again? What’s going on?
Im not a fan of Albanese due to him largely coasting on important issues; like housing but Im not aware of the broader population thinking he was a cunt. After Morison (deeply moronic conservative who was last PM) he got job and at least was professional.
Problem is Dutton, the opposition leader just had that bad a platform. Marking yet another attempt for the coalition attempting to bring US/Trump bullshit over here, being a cop who’d disobey an international court warrant, nuclear power saga and in general just being super scarce on details for his plans as PM.
Even if I’m centre left inclined, the coalitions performance this cycle still somewhat disappointed me. A weak coalition means it’s more like for a complacent Labor party.
eatham@aussie.zone 1 week ago
CTDummy@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Thanks for the correction, I lumped in other parties with independents.
eureka@aussie.zone 1 week ago
For what it’s worth, I’d say many online communities (including Lemmy) are more progressivist than the average population, so a non-Australian could easily get that impression.
abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us 1 week ago
Hmm.. I'm curious now, how did a conservative rightist party end up with Liberal in their name?
Mountaineer@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Back in 1909 The Protectionist Party and Anti-Socialist Party put aside their differences to take on the Labor party, which was seen as Socialist.
The founders wanted freedom (Liberty) from what they saw as Labour Union dominion.
Funnily enough, an actual Libertarian party has since popped up and the Liberals challenged their name with the AEC, which as I said is funny because the Electoral Commision correctly pointed out that if ANYBODY has an incorrect name, it’s the Liberals.
eureka@aussie.zone 1 week ago
From a historical/polsci perspective, the Liberal Party is a conservative liberalist party, and the Libertarian Party is probably also a conservative liberalist party claiming to be a classical liberalist party (right-libertarian is also appropriate, as opposed to the original meaning of libertarian, which is now called libertarian socialism).
The US discourse using “liberal” to refer to “progressive liberalism” is more the source of confusion than the Liberal Party.
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abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us 1 week ago
Hey, that's pretty cool (re: Libertarian Party of Australia and the AEC comment)