The oligarch media are pushing One Nation hard because they want Trumpism here so they can continue to do oligarch stuff without interference.
Polling suggests one nation preferred over labor, negative perceptions and low awareness of budget blamed.
Submitted 2 weeks ago by naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com to australianpolitics@aussie.zone
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NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Almacca@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Gawd. Prime Minister Pauline would make us long for the ScoMo era, I reckon.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
She’d be better because she’d be worse at executing her agenda and any government electing her would be wracked by infighting
Wataba@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
She’d embolden the racist pigs out there to try getting away with more stuff.
Im not willing to endure a pyrrhic victory here in copying the fucking stupidity of the US.
Almacca@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
That’s true, but we’ll also have the pleasure of having to listen to her blithering even more frequently.
KaChilde@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I always doubt these reports. The news media has proven that they will bias conservative parties in their reporting, in order to sway elections.
By reporting that Hanson is a popular candidate, they make her seem like a viable option, thus self-fulfilling their prophecy. Watch the same outlets guilt the public for voting her in when she wins seats based on their own bullshit reporting.
Ilandar@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
By reporting that Hanson is a popular candidate, they make her seem like a viable option, thus self-fulfilling their prophecy. Watch the same outlets guilt the public for voting her in when she wins seats based on their own bullshit reporting.
I don’t necessarily agree that it’s a case of “the news media” trying to "sway elections’, I think there’s a lot more nuance here than you’re suggesting. But I definitely agree that this constant fearmongering about One Nation in order to gain clicks is massively contributing to the mainstreaming of the party. I also agree that if One Nation finds success on election night, the panel of ABC journalists who have spent all their time discussing One Nation over the last few years will be predictably shocked and have absolutely zero self-awareness about the role of the national broadcaster here.
Tenderizer@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I’ve seen the way the press frames things in Victoria, they definitely are pushing an electoral agenda.
MrFlibble4747@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The “first past the post” victory narrative is idiotic yet here we are being inundated, even in the ABC, by this bullshit.
We have preferential voting and Poorline will never be elected in Australia.
Ixoid@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
ON’s primary vote RIGHT NOW (according to a single survey from a group I’ve never heard of) is higher than all other parties except Labor, and they’re only leading by a few percent. The only poll that matters is election day - IF she can maintain / improve this in the next two years, her party will be a significant threat to progressive politics in Australia. Pauline HAS been ‘elected in Australia’ - and her party is growing distressingly fast.
auzy1@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Polling also claimed they’d win SA.
She’s attacked the majority of Australians. And, especially with the new tax changes, fairly sure younger people in particular are going to find them a good thing. The claim it’s a death tax definitely isn’t being accepted lol
Every left wing person will put her close to the bottom
But a lot of right wing people don’t want to wake up each morning to read about the stupid shit Pauline did yesterday too
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
polling also claimed they’d win SA
Um, that not correct. Nobody thought Malinauskas wasn’t romping it home. Predictions were pretty unanimous for Labor domination.
Antony Green’s Election Blog, 2026 South Australian Election Preview
MrFlibble4747@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It is inequity in the whole taxation system, housing is the major pain point but the system is unbalanced and favours those with assets (property, shares etc) especially the 1% which explains the volume of the squealing!
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Why are they referring to us millennials as young?
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Mid-forties is the new mid-twenties, or something.
kudra@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
propaganda, obvs
ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
It’s as if Labor designed a budget to turbocharge more anti-establishment sentiment and pump up One Nation’s tyres.
Facts
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
We all better do what polling says then. It’s never wrong. /s
tomiant@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Says ABC…
FFS.
Taleya@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
- people who answered the poll
I had Redbridge text me. I blocked the number
Ilandar@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I remain sceptical until an election gets closer. I don’t understand why the budget is being received so negatively, though. Is there something about it that is making people particularly concerned, or is just that there are no direct handouts or quick fixes so people remain entrenched in their doomerism? From everything I’ve read it does not seem to be at all deserving of this level of backlash.
shirro@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
People have left reliable reporting and information sources behind and only subscribe to brain melting propaganda feeds which trivialize and distort.
Emotional appeals such as ragebait and doomerism increase engagement and soc media platforms are all engagement farms. It is a combination of the algorithmic nature of those platforms promoting this sort of content and organizations that create content aimed at increasing societal division and undermining trust in government and institutions. As people are getting emotional manipulation in place of information it just naturally carries over into everyday conversation I guess as it fires them up.
I admit I don’t follow the news like I did either. I would watch ABC/SBS news, longer form news/current affairs on the same platforms, multiple newspapers. I tend to just skim some web pages these days or find out about stuff because it gets mentioned here. I am much less informed than I was 20 years ago but with the media environment the way it is now I wouldn’t want to consume as much as I once did.
Ilandar@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I suppose I’m guilty of a lack of awareness regarding my own habits. I listen to longer form, discussion style podcasts about complex issues and I follow the ABC’s coverage of Australian politics reasonably closely. Maybe this is having a bigger impact on my understanding of current affairs than I thought, which is why the (I assume) majority who don’t have these habits are now in a completely different world to me.
blind3rdeye@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I agree with that.
Many years ago, I had a paper subscription to both The Age and The Australian; and both were respectable publications at the time… Whereas now neither of them are. There is still good journalism happening, but it is no longer the norm. And so it isn’t as easy to consume it as a routine, or talk about it casually to people in slightly different social circles.
I feel like almost every story is like “here is what some people with obviously vested interests say about such-and-such”. Or the other flavour of story which is basically “shit’s fucked. It sucks, right?” For politics in particular, I see so many stories about whether some policy is popular, and again opinions from vested interests… but very little objective comparison. Like, people aren’t proposing policy changes because they are complete idiots. They have reasons. So I’d like the reporting on them to say what those reasons are, and look into whether or not the policy will meet the goals of those reasons.
Ok. I feel like I’m whinging and being a bit vague. Like I said before, there is still some good journalism going on - and I don’t really put a lot of effort into looking for it. So I shouldn’t complain too much about what I see. I guess I’m just bit a worried about what everyone else sees too. Rage-bait emotional manipulation, mostly.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I too would agree that the only poll that determines the government is the one on election day and we’ve seen that go one way or the other because of a few days propaganda (<3 the westminister system, so good).
I think it’s mostly that:
a) very few people read any sort of long form analysis or really any news at all.
b) rich people are highly motivates to distribute propaganda against this budget and to downplay how rich they are
c) lots of people who are yolked wage-slave proles (almost all the population) don’t understand how low down the economic ladder they are and aren’t motivated to think about it since it’s humilating in a culture that equated wealth with worth and worthiness.
d) shares are basically the only way you can (un)realistically dream of escaping your chains atm and “labour can tax you out of escaping” is easy propaganda for (b) to hit © with.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s probably just warped by social media, giving everyone their own little idealized version of One Nation while every little thing in Labor’s budget is peeled apart.
I hate to sound so cynical, but I’ve seen this movie before.
tomiant@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Because it’s being reported like that in spite of great economic policies. Labor always outperform conservatives on finance, the only thing convincing them otherwise is misleading news reporting. The stats are open and free to the public and right there.