This isn’t a heel turn. This is Labor being typical Labor. If they had a heel turn it was back during the Hawke/Keating years.
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DarkCloud@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Labor are having a big heal turn. No one should vote lib/lab. We all need to get the message that they offer nothing genuine.
The greens and further left are the only options fpr my vote.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 22 hours ago
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 23 hours ago
Well, it’s been that way for 25-30 years and the handful of us aren’t changing any thing (long time Greens voter and Independent before that)
I don’t vote Green to have them win per se (albeit their policies are miles in front of the ALP and LNP but to try to move the Overton Window to the left to see tje rose of the truly radical politcans we need. Labor lost the plot after Whitlam and the Overton window has been moving to the right ever since.
eureka@aussie.zone 22 hours ago
10 senate seats and 12% of the vote is a bit more than a handful mate. My primary vote usually goes to parties around 0.1% before ending up at the Greens. Greens actually have some institutional platform and power, and the two main parties are no longer a majority of primary votes.
The electoral change has been slow, and too slow to have faith in if we want to save the planet (like you said, radical politics is needed), but it’s real and indicative.