Even as a lefty, I wish there was a functional opposition (though I wish the opposition was further left than ALP tbh).
Well, vote Green, preference Labor?
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Mantzy81@aussie.zone 19 hours ago
The dumbest man in politics replaces the dumbest woman. ALP are the real winners here.
Even as a lefty, I wish there was a functional opposition (though I wish the opposition was further left than ALP tbh).
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 16 hours ago
Mantzy81@aussie.zone 15 hours ago
You been looking over my shoulder or something?
maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 19 hours ago
The ALP is the opposition. It doesn’t make a lick of difference that they have been elected to government.
outnumbered_int@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Underated comment!
maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 8 hours ago
I thought about editing it because it sounds super snarky towards @Mantzy81@aussie.zone which wasn’t my intent. I was trying to say we should treat the ALP as the opposition and never let anyone to the right of Labor close to power ever again.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 11 hours ago
Don’t be so oversure. Everyone seems to be concluding that this will result in the Tories becoming even more unelectable and in permanent ALP one-party rule until the Greens become the opposition or the sun goes nova, though seem to have forgotten that the equally dislikable gronk Dutton was cruising to victory until the realities of the second Trump administration derailed the electoral ambitions of the Trump-adjacent right (as they did in Canada).
If Labor rests on the comfort of having no challengers and becomes shit and the public get sick of them, they will eventually vote for someone else whom the billionaire-owned media push, whether is whatever megachurch headbangers are jumping up and down under the Liberal Party banner, Hanson, Palmer, some actual neo-Nazis who have unconvincingly repudiated the whole master-race thing and strategically only wear long-sleeved shirts, or someone else. And then we’ll be back to where we were in the long Howard era, where it’s as common knowledge that The Strayans Are A Conservative Mob as it was before the election that Yeah Nah We’re Not Buying It.
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I dunno. I’ve been getting pretty fucking sick of some of the shit Labor’s been up to - or not been up to - despite promises to the contrary. I’ve voted Labor for decades, but I won’t be next time. I won’t be voting Libs, Phon, Other Assorted Fuckwits, either, of course. Hopefully there’ll be a progressive Indy I can vote for. If not, the Greens.