Comment on Senior ADF source confirms Australian Army preparing for war

LemmyTryThisAgain@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• shirro@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This government is being nitpicked to death from all sides while desperately clinging to the center of politics and trying not to present a target. The real war isn’t Iran bit the ceaseless information war cooking peoples brains.

  The official word from the government is that we are considering offering assistance to gulf countries but have ruled out deployment in Iran. Has that changed? When it does I will be out on the streets with half a million others.

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• fizzle@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I agree. I doubt I’ll vote for Albo again. They’ve moved to the right, trying to be the eternal party of government.

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  • Fleur_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Please for the love of god never give either of the majors your first preference

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    • fizzle@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In the past centre left has been my first preference.

      Im not really a greens voter.

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      • eureka@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        A reminder to all: there’s far more to the ballot than whose on television! IIRC Greens were only 4th or so on my senate ballot, Labor were almost at 10th.

        While I have plenty of pragmatic criticisms of The Greens, I can’t abide by what Labor has done to unions and other parts of the labour movement, not to mention the frequent other betrayals which enabled this crisis, and the resulting PHON populist campaign to be so potent.

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      • Fleur_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You’re still wasting your preferences by voting Labor first. Labor or liberal are essentially guaranteed to be in the last 2 preferences for almost every seat in the country. You can put them 2nd to last and they’ll still count your vote towards them in preference flows.

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      • king_comrade@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Why’s that, mate?

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