In short:
The federal election will be called tomorrow for May 3, the ABC has confirmed.
It triggers a five-week campaign to convince voters whether Labor under Anthony Albanese or the Coalition under Peter Dutton is most fit to lead the country.
What’s next?
The prime minister will head to government house tomorrow morning to call the election.
As usual I’ll vote for left independents, then Labor, then liberal, then the right wing independents.
Great. Fucking wall to wall dutton bullshit
Am seriously considering just deleting my news apps until it’s over. I am in a safe seat. I know how to get local info so I can decide who’s a climate/progressive independent and who’s a cooker. I don’t think I can handle hearing how more gas exploration and firing 40 thousand people is the way forward.
Don’t vote 1 for the major parties guys. Minor parties and independents don’t need a majority they just need to prevent either of the big ones from getting one and they’ll be forced to negotiate.
The exception here being teal independents who vote with the Libs, as the colour name suggests, they’re not for workers. The only difference is that they believe in climate change and are not as socially conservative.
Handy tool: https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/
A May 3 decision between a giant douche and a turd sandwich. I’ll be voting for an independent, and definitely not the commie greens.
I was discussing this just a couple of days ago. Greens have terrible marketing and are in desperate need of a rebrand. I’m curious though: Which of their policies are you opposed to? Because honestly: if breaking up bank cartels, restoring Internet privacy laws, promoting local manufacturing, science and research as well as improving the calibre of education are bad, then I guess I’m bad.
For me, my criticism of Greens comes mainly from putting stuff in policies that would be better suited to “dreams and aspirations”. They have a tendency to put stuff in there that are unspecific or at least out of the realms of what government does. But for all of that, I struggle to point to anything on their policy stuff and say “that’s an awful position”. At least, even if I’m not totally on-board, I see where they’re coming from. And that’s another point. Their policies page overwhelms you with too much to actually go through in one sitting. But, look at the Liberal/Labor equivalent pages? Greens are super open about what they stand for and what they would like to achieve. Labor have a few bullet points and Libs have a marketing brochure.
Labor has updated their policies this morning with the campaign announcement:
In my other comment I mentioned LNP’s climate change position, here is ALPs:
That Labor page is a bit pathetic isn’t it.
I imagine they’re going to roll out something fancy once the election is announced.
I’m a bit surprised neither of the two major parties really seems interested in environmental sustainability. Last election the teal independents really stole the show.
LNP’s nuclear power plan is just an excuse to keep burning coal for another 30 years. I think most people who actually care about emissions will see that, but the existence of a plan will ease the conscience of LNP voters.
What the greens say on their propaganda page and what the greens actually have shown they stand for are very different things.
Bandt is all for mass unchecked immigration, child mutilation and sterilisation in the name of “gender affirmation”, and destroying the country via “renewable energy” that is the exact opposite of sustainable. Pretty much all we’ve heard about from the greens the last few years is “free Palestine”. Nothing about the fact that Palestine is run by literal terrorists, or that they committed one of the worst, most despicable terrorist attacks to start this war in decades. No, just free Palestine.
As much as I love the south park analogy it simply doesn’t apply to our system at all.
How doesn’t it? We effectively have a 2 party solution, both of which are shit.
We have:
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Preferential voting.
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Proportional representation (at least in the lower house)
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Independent organisation that sets seat boundaries.
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compulsory voting
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no electoral college system
Our system is completely different to the USA. Granted our media landscape is still just as fucked as theirs.
First preferences also result in funding going to that party provided it meets a minimum threshold. Putting others ahead of the major parties sends them a message to do better. It has also resulted in a number of seats being held by independents.
Unless you actually live in the seat the party leader is in, you are not voting for that party leader / giant douche / turd sandwich.
Cool, but in Australia you’re still choosing between Albo and Dutton for prime minister. ALP and LNP for government. Turd sandwich and giant douche.
The electoral college etc have literally nothing to do with it.
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Vote Green and save the brush-tailed rock wallaby!
You’re a fool, only the animal justice party has what it takes to handle that
They’re a good option although I can’t tell if you really care about animal rights or you’re a fool who would like to splinter the 3rd biggest party into smaller options. The thing about the environment is that it is a meta-issue, all other issues cease to matter if the environment becomes unliveable.
I’ll be voting for whoever seems the most communist. Which is of course literally none of them. Even on the left-wing ones are just centrists.
The Greens range from centre-left to genuine communists. There aren’t many of the latter, but it’s more than you’ll find in Labor. And even Labor’s centrism is closer to communism than the LNP’s far right.
I feel the exact opposite tbh, that Labor is closer to the Liberals (not the Coalition as a whole) than the Greens.
That doesn’t disagree with what I said, though?
Oh yeah!! Who called it in November 2024, baby?!
If it wasn’t for Cyclone Alfred, I reckon my prediction of 12 April (given WA went crazy good for Labor) would’ve been correct.
