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Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025

Even though I care not for the spud, after Trump and the shenanigans about stolen elections, I am proud that I live somewhere where elections are called and there is some basic civility around the gracious defeat speech then the victory speech. This might be the bottle of bubbly talking…

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Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
He handled that well, I can give him that. On what’s clearly a challenging day for him personally, he’s been quite dignified in defeat

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StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I think we sometimes forget how good it is here compared to other Global North countries, especially in regards to elections, and our voting rights.

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- tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The book From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage has a great history on voting in Australia and how it compares to other countries
  
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  - imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Yes! I have read that. Was great
    
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  - StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Ooo I’ll have to give that a read! Thank you! 💜
    
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briongloid@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It was nice to see a regular professional concession speech again.

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