Labor has stormed to victory in the federal election and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will lead a majority government following a disastrous night for the Coalition and Peter Dutton.
At 8.24pm, less than half an hour after the final polls closed in Western Australia, 9News projected Labor had won the election.
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This isnt just a win for Labor, this is a historic landslide after the already historic landslide in 2022. The Liberals could hold as few as 40/150 seats in the house after today, and Labor as many as 90. This could be their greatest victory since the Second World War, and the Liberals (who, to clarify, are conservative) smallest representation since their formation. There was something like a 5% swing away from the Liberals. Likewise, this result appears to have elected the most independents to parliament in decades.
Lets point out that its not even the liberals, its a liberal national coalition. The liberal primary vote is in third party territory. Even if you add the libs and nats they have about half the seats of labor. This ass kicking is historical.
The Coalition has been a stable political entity for generations, and is structurally more like a party with two formalised factions and centres of power than like two parties temporarily cooperating. (In Queensland, they have even merged into one party.)
Trump is turning the world to the left.
People need to see fascism in action in other countries to be reminded of what it is, too bad that it had to be the US, last time it was Germany.
Too bad voters can’t live in a simulation showing the consequences of their vote before they do so, that way it wouldn’t be necessary to stumble and waste resources/progress that we’re going to need in the future.
The simulation you’re talking about is the population being able to access higher education so that they understand their vote.
Pre-WW1 and WW2 Germans were some of the most educated, informed and progressive societies in the world at the time and it didn’t stop them blundering into jingoism and fascism, I don’t think it is just that.
There is a large component of “the socialists/wokes are coming for you” which glitches regular people into protest voting to the right of center instead of for a left that actually represents their interests.
PS: there is also infighting between lefties, far lefties, “moderates” and liberals that can prevent them from aligning against fascist demagogues until it is too late.
PPS: also, if you just study a lot of STEM in college, your views on humanities may still be atrocious, like elonstans.
PPS: also, if you just study a lot of STEM in college, your views on humanities may still be atrocious, like elonstans.
This was very depressing to learn. I know a lot of software engineers, some of them PhD students, who are really smart and clever people, able to abstract concepts, form connections in thought, recall relevant information and make intelligent conclusions every day. And then they say things like masks don’t do anything during COVID, the vaccines don’t work, Russia is defending itself, the wokes are oppressing everyone and destroying everything etc. It’s almost impressive to see someone seemingly intelligent act like the lowest Trump supporter with certain topics like someone just flipped a switch.
Literally, just step back and look at history.
It’s amazing, and disappointing, that the simple exercise of “Let me predict what the consequences of my vote will be” seems beyond so many people.
Unfortunately that path feels like it’s closing. Will probably need more shows like The Handmaid’s Tale to make learning entertaining. The more people are reminded of the horrors of fascism in parallel fictional arenas, the more likely they will connect the dots.
They’d call “Fake Sims” before lunchtime on the first day.
Except perhaps in the UK, where there’s a Labour government who are triangulating rightwards Blair-fashion, but who (if recent local elections are anything to go by) look likely to be replaced with a far-right populist party that’s actually a private company controlled by donors.
I love how the UK’s supposedly left leadership aggressively, insistently opened with “let’s cut off the heating for old people in winter” and kept doubling down on it.
It’s not really left though, it’s just sightly less right. More maintaining status quo instead of taking a big step right. Which I guess by comparison is left?
Our (Australia’s) progress parties like The Greens actually lost a lot of seats.
I feel people just didn’t want the Conservative party more so than wanted a progressive party. But I’ll take it.
There is no left in Canada. I’m not sure what you mean. Maybe trump is turning the world centrist is more apt of a statement. As far as I know, the labour party in Australia is more centrist than left leaning. Also, half of Canada voted for the right-wing guy, and the next election will be close again.
The universe seeks balance
I can finally have a couple months off from stressing over our politics because we reelected the competent side.
It’s been pretty nice. I’ve been catching up on new (to me) music releases.
Culture!?! I forgot that was a thing I could do with my time.
This and the GTA6 release date announcement today is a good news day.
Ah yes because the ALP have been so competent the last 3 years, haven’t they? No, they’ve been a complete shitshow.
The LNP are a shitshow too, and Dutton deserved to be nowhere near being prime minister, but let’s not sugar coat it - Labor have run the country into the ground. Can you name a single thing that has improved over the last 3 years?
Isn’t declining culture war ideology a positive thing? Australia has a strong sense of community and identity politics destroys that
Australia has a strong sense of community? That’s being eroded every day. Our sense of community is being taken away in favour of “multiculturalism” and making sure every immigrants cultures and religions are respected, at the expense of our own identity and community.
Why would you prefer LNP when they were the ones who introduced more immigration?
Neither the ALP or LNP are prepared to do what needs to be done in terms of immigration. I didn’t vote for the ALP or LNP.
If your preferred party didn’t get any seats, you voted for the ALP or LNP.
I know how voting works. What point were you trying to make?
Min wage went, billions in affordable housing investments, GP visits being bulk billed all seem pretty nice. Theres plenty more but I don’t remember them off the top of my head.
Min wage going up a tiny bit is negated by the 30%+ inflation from the current governments term.
What “affordable housing”? The one where not a single house was actually built?
GP visits being bulk billed? Almost every GP visit now costs you money out of pocket, even the ones that bulk bill.
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A few things wrong here:
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I’m not blaming it on one person. I’m blaming the entire Labor government and their policies, along with the Greens and Teals who they make deals with to get things to pass.
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The article I gave reports on what happened in the senate estimates hearings. Direct quotes are in there. You can feel free to look up what they said in your news source of choice - I simply gave news.com.au because it is the biggest Australian news site and is an aggregator of news from all different sources, left and right wing. Here’s one reporting on the same thing but on a “socialist” left wing site: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/12/kenh-m12.html Same quotes, same facts and figures.
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I don’t know if you’re a bot, an idiot or just disingenuous but your argument is trash.
Rule 5 says hi.
You need to better understand how to separate what is being reported from who is reporting it. When it’s direct quotes and verbatim responses with context provided, the site reporting it is basically irrelevant. A quick google of the information in the source I provided would show you that it is all factually correct and verifiable.
As for your personal attacks, grow up. I presented facts and sources to back them up. You dismissed them because you don’t like what they said, even though what the article presents is factual.
I’m gonna keep enjoying having a party in power that wants better for people and actually has the ability to do it as opposed to the liberal party who doesn’t give two shits about anyone who isn’t a mining boss.
I’m gonna enjoy not having Medicare cut, not having education cut, not having fire management cut, not having NDIS cut and basically everything else the liberal party does.
I’m dismissing your arguments because you either have no idea about what the parties do, or you are actively being misleading. I don’t actually care which one, but it’s objective fact that one of the major parties tends to work to help people and actually run the country and the other one has the economic management skills of a dead, half rotten mouse while generally making life worse for almost everyone.
I’m gonna keep enjoying having a party in power that wants better for people and actually has the ability to do it as opposed to the liberal party who doesn’t give two shits about anyone who isn’t a mining boss.
Unfortunately for you you’re also going to have to enjoy having a party in power that wants higher inflation, ever increasing house prices, ever increasing power bills, and ever increasing cost of living, because that’s what their policies create.
Don’t get me wrong - I didn’t want the LNP to win either. The LNP are just Labor-lite, with an absolute spud for a leader (at least that will be changed now!). I’ve literally never voted for the LNP. Didn’t this time either.
The NDIS is a great thing, but is horribly mismanaged and absolutely fraud central. What is going on with the NDIS is not sustainable and needs to be investigated and brought back under control. Again - huge fan of the idea of the NDIS, not a fan of how it has played out.
Medicare was never going to be cut btw.
but it’s objective fact that one of the major parties tends to work to help people and actually run the country and the other one has the economic management skills of a dead, half rotten mouse while generally making life worse for almost everyone.
This is far from “objective fact” though lol. Again - cost of living has been out of control under labor because of labors policies. The housing crisis is in large part due to Labors insane record levels of immigration. The much vaunted “economic management skills” haven’t been seen for years at this point. When do they rear their head? The pattern has always been the LNP save money, the ALP spend it, rinse and repeat. Now they’re both just trying to outspend each other.
I’m dismissing your arguments because you either have no idea about what the parties do, or you are actively being misleading.
I can say the same thinga bout your arguments, if you actually presented any that is.
Do you admit that the “affordable housing investment” was all a lie that resulted in absolutely nothing? Or are you still going to blame “fox news sources”?
Have our power bills gotten $275 cheaper from what they were in 2022 like promised by Albo? Or have they pretty much tripled since then?
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sure would be nice if there weren’t 2 major conflicts, recovering from the pandemic, and numerous other things that cause cost of living crisis and other things that every other country on earth is also going through
what’s that i hear? is that the sound of the IMF having ranked us 2nd best in the world for budget balance…
shit mate, maybe you’re repeating half truths and FUD from sky news
A trillion dollars of debt we’ll be at soon. Our power bills have tripled thanks to the ALPs energy plan. Our “100% renewables” energy plan is going to cost us another trillion or so, probably more. Our housing crisis has been fuelled by mass immigration at levels never seen before - all under labor’s watch.
Labor have been a shitshow for the country in every way. The only good thing they’ve done is kept Dutton out.
At 8.24pm, less than half an hour after the final polls closed in Western Australia, 9News projected Labor had won the election.
This makes it sound like the result arrived extraordinarily quickly (which, in fairness, it was a very fast call) but elections here are decided entirely in the eastern states. It was obvious that the swing was on and Labor were clear favourites to win before polls in WA even closed.
By far the best news of the night though was that Temu Trump (Peter Dutton) lost his own seat just like Pierre Polievre in Canada several days ago. That makes him the first opposition leader to lose their own seat at a federal election.
What about Howard?
He was Prime Minister when he lost his seat, not the opposition leader.
Ahh yeah, sorry, my bad
Are these guys Labour like the UK’s Labour (basically a centre-right wing party in disguise these days), or are they legitimately a left-wing pro socialist workers rights party, like Labour should be?
If the latter, good for them! They deserve good things over there.
Australia’s politics are weird. Our ‘liberal’ party is the conservative one. Our ‘nationals’ party is meant to represent the people in rural communities, but are somehow more corrupt and full of shit than the ‘liberals’. Our ‘labor’ party has literally never given birth, and nobody in ‘The Greens’ is actually green. Needless to say, Australia is weird.
Thank you for that, didn’t know.
Yep, very similar to UK Labour, in my understanding. They’ve distanced themselves from their union roots a lot over the last 4ish decades.
It used to be closer to the former, the rise of The Greens as a third force in Australian politics has been a result of the right faction of the Labor party pushing them away from some of those roots as it desperately tried to win elections. Many Greens voters are former voters from the Labor left. With Labor’s main opponents in complete disarray, however, there is potentially a greater possibility for it to shift left over the next term (and longer, depending on how quickly their opposition regroups).
It depends who you ask.
In practice, the former.
I want to believe some Labor politicians are the latter, but afraid to show it because it’s punished the party politically in the past. There are definitely right and left factions within the party, it’s just not clear what the balance is.
If you look at the vote compass Labor currently sits a little left and slightly progressive, they have implemented/supported their fair share of authoritarian right legislation though
The tankies will scream.but we held the line. Thank you to all my sane aussie compatriots. The potato is toast.
The players are picking their starting teams for ww3
