I am generally curious what you mean by centrist nut jobs. Isn’t the whole point of the centre to be somewhere in the middle and therefore the best of both worlds that everyone has something in common with?
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Ixoid@lemm.ee 1 year agoWell actshually… Australia used to be run by right-wing nutjobs. The current mob in power are centrist nut jobs.
WiseMoth@lemmy.world 1 year ago
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There is no “best of both worlds” when one side wants you to be a fucking slave. Wake up, dummy.
9point6@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How about just a little bit of servitude…?
…wait
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
“Best of both worlds” doesn’t literally mean expressing everything on a numeric scale and averaging it out.
PickTheStick@ttrpg.network 1 year ago
I’m really curious (as I’m not living there) what the difference is. Is it just their religious tendencies? Or is it their feelings towards the nebulous “other” that defines them?
Cypher@lemmy.world 1 year ago
In Australia there are two major political parties, Labor and Liberals.
Liberals does not mean what it does in the US, they are the right wing party, who are in a coalition with the Nationals party which is even further right wing.
Labor is now centre-right as they kept running on centre-left policies and losing.
The defining difference between the parties on the domestic front are that Labor supports and Liberals oppose
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Social safety nets
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Universal medical care
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Taxation of corporations
On a foreign policy front they parties are broadly aligned however their stance on how to deal (interact) with China is vastly different, where Labor engages the Liberals attack China endlessly which resulted in a trade war which we’re still feeling the effects of.
This is a very shallow examination of Australia’s political landscape but I’m not a political commentator.
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Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The power behind the throne in Australia is still right wing but jobs and corporations
Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
I feel like Australia and New Zealand is kind of like England and Scotland in that sense.
Uncle_Bagel@midwest.social 1 year ago
Australia is essentially just Texas out in a remote corner of the world. Just a bunch of mining and oil companies running a country.
Chocrates@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So your telling me Capitalism is destroying the planet everywhere regardless of the nominal government “in charge”?