Australia’s Upcoming Elections and the Trump Factor.

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• No1@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve been waiting for Musk to wade in with a few billion to support the Trumpettes of Idiots or some other cooker party…

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  • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think after the most recent fiasco he’s realised that he is deeply unpopular.

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    • eureka@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t know what difference that makes. That’s what the money’s for, buying media propaganda.

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• DoubleDongle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m an American who joined this community to get a finger on Australia’s pulse because it’s my first choice for places to run if the coup here succeeds. For the love of anything you may hold holy, do not vote for anyone who shares Trump’s stances or attitude. If it can happen in my home, it can happen almost anywhere.

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• Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t like any of the cunts, but future made in Australia policy is a great idea, that is spearheaded by labour so we can’t let the liberals come in and pull it apart in favour of digging more dirt outta the ground

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• Auzy@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If anyone is stupid enough to vote libs (or even worse, clive), honestly, it’s an indication we need to spend more on education.

  Even the crappiest Independents are more likely to be better.

  Also, make sure you show up to vote with a list of who you want to vote for. There are a lot of shit parties out there with misleading names

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  • eureka@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    it’s an indication we need to spend more on education.

    Or, rather, better education. I obviously can’t speak for everyone’s schooling experience but most people I’ve talked to all had a pretty sterile one, where the most political thing you’d hear is a teacher subtly saying Whitlam was great for arts and education. Yes, there’s a trip to Canberra and a bit about how the electoral system works, but that’s extremely neutral for obvious reasons.

    Now, political and religious neutrality in schools has its benefits (look to some places in the US where some regions are biased so hard they’re outright lying) but at the same time, we don’t learn about important history. Honestly, as interesting as it is, substitute out ancient history for our country’s own history, including post-WWII history.

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• muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m not to sure about that. Voldamort might win for the same reasons trump won.

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  • eureka@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Voldamort might win for the same reasons trump won.

    Which reasons?

    It’s an important question - we have a very different political environment. That doesn’t mean abhorrent reactionaries like Voldy won’t take power, nor we won’t see similar trends like you mentioned, but, for example, there is high voter turn-out due to mandatory voting and less voter disenfranchisement (~90% vs. 64%), our closest analogues to Trump (Palmer, along with their party leaders) are uptight and lack the public speaking skills to inspire confidence, they sound like generic posh politicians reading scripts rather than casual and approachable, with their party polling under 2%, and with the Lib-Nat Coalition nosediving after the US inauguration (similarly to the conservatives in Canada).

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  • Auzy@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    At least Trump was elected a few months before our election, so people can see what a piss-poor job he’s doing, and what a load of bollucks his promises were.

    It looks like at least news.com.au in Australia has turned on him a bit (Sky news though is still out there brainwashing people 150% though to make up for it)

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    • eureka@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      At least Trump was elected a few months before our election, so people can see what a piss-poor job he’s doing, and what a load of bollocks his promises were.

      Australia election polling:

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      Canada election polling:

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• ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Liberals completely fumbling the campaign and being run by the egg head also playing a part lol

  Seriously the only argument the liberals have put in my letterbox has been that CPI was positive under labor…

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They keep dropping me pamphlets trumpeting ZOE DANIEL VOTES WITH THE GREEEENNNSSSSSS and it just makes me wanna find a tim wilson poster, whip out my lil’ posca and add “The man so stupid he doesn’t know what a teal is”

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