CertainlyWorse
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I don't have the time to long form this sadly, but I'll throw out some dot points.
The center right conservative Liberal party didn't do enough to differentiate itself from the incumbent center left Labor party. Their (ex)leader was generally uncharismatic even though he did a good job bringing stability during his tenure to a party that had previously gone through several leadership spills.
Australia's largest problems right now are arguably a cost of living crisis (post COVID inflation, energy policies) and housing affordability (due to mass immigration, nimbyist building restrictions).
By electing the incumbent government we can expect more of the same policies that the incumbant govt has promoted. A push towards (more expensive) renewable energy over the Liberals promotion of long term development of nuclear energy. I think this will exacerbate the cost of living problem over the long term.
Same with immigration. The Foreign Minister primed the crowd for the PM's victory speech with the usual platitudes such as 'Welcome to Country' and a celebration of multiculturalism and how many different peoples we had in this country. They seem to have no intention of stemming the flow of mass migration into Australia, primarily from India, with predictable excuse of skills shortages. More than 30% of the Australian population is foreign born for context and 2/3rds of Australians are home owners (who are likely quite happy for house prices to inflate out of reach for the renters).
The vast majority of Australians live on the coast and in the capital cities. There are some state cultural differences with Western Australia with its mining based economy traditionally having an undercurrent of successionism against the 'out of touch' Eastern States, but Canberra has been smart enough to give WA enough revenue to keep any real anger at the Eastern States under control.
There's a lot more that can be said about this election and Australia itself, but I'll finish with this. I expect Australia to continue a long slow and steady decline into stagnation. Australians in general do not want things to change. They like the welfare state and rising housing prices (read: retirement portfolios) and seem to be happy with mass immigration.
A final anecdote. I was watching the election coverage last night from the publicly funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). A supposedly neutral ABC journalist immediately start badgering a Liberal politician on a panel if the Liberals would retract their nuclear energy policy as soon as it became clear the Liberals had lost. A different journalist later asked a Labor politician if they would use their new majority to resurrect the failed Voice to Parliament policy that had been resoundingly defeated at referendum. I get enough Reddit online and don't need to see more on TV.
CertainlyWorse
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15hr ago
Liberals on suicide watch. The opposition leader lost his seat which shows what a bloodbath this is. (Ironically it looks like the Greens party might lose their leader too).
Massive swing to the Left, partially due to a failing of the conservative party to resonate with voters and also the Trump tariff effect.
Many right wingers on my twitter feed taking it badly.
Not a lot do except for the 'very online' that enjoy US and geo-politics.
However one of the populist parties is called 'The Trumpet of Patriots' and is clearly trying to piggyback off of Trump's success in the US. I'd say more of the voters for that party would than average.
Edit: Should make it clear that TOP is a minor party that isn't expected to pick up many seats. Its run by a dodgy billionaire with a checkered history.
CertainlyWorse
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2d ago
I've started noticing AI generated video in the lead up to the Australian federal election. There was one on X floating around with Tucker Carlson dumping on the current Prime Minister. Really made me think about the need to curate my feed more.
CertainlyWorse
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5d ago
Its more the 'You aren't against wheelchair access are you? Then approve our racial quotas!' that gets me riled up.
They bundle these things together to get 'inclusion' to do the heavy lifting for 'diversity' and 'equity'.
CertainlyWorse
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5d ago
I saw this on X and was surprised (or perhaps not so surprised) at the lack of coverage in International Media. The police kept the groups from clashing, so maybe that had something to do with it.
Mainstream media estimates are around 5000 for the protest and 1000-2000 for the counter-protest.
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5d ago
Ayyy, what book are you up to? I've just started Desolation Island.
Jack also says he likes using African boarding parties because they steal the courage out of Spaniards. There's a scene where the boarders get a bit excited pre-action and cover themselves in cooking grease and ash in Napoleonic Blackface.
CertainlyWorse
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5d ago
5 and 7 are about building accessibility. If they conflate 'wanting your building to have wheelchair access' with 'I support DEI', they are being willfully dishonest.
I have to agree with this. Liberals said that they would reduce immigration by 100000 a year only and still faced backlash:
I had a chat to a non-Indian IT friend in a private server and he told me he had come across multiple uber drivers handing out resumes (which they kept in their car). They were desperate to qualify for PR under Australia's points based system before their time ran out.
The pipeline for those guys was apparently: Foreign student comes to Australia and pays full price for an IT Masters degree from Australia's massive university sector > Student gets 3 years after completion to find employment or leave > Student takes IT job for vastly reduced rate (A$60k) in order to qualify for permanent residency, suppressing salaries for heritage Australians > New batch graduates every year, saturating the industry > Govt campaigns on 'skills shortages' in IT
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