ziltoid101
@ziltoid101@lemmy.world
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Lose-lose situation for the Liberals. They’ll pretty much never get a majority without the nats, but the concessions they’ve had to make here aren’t going to help them win back any votes.
- Comment on Nationals leaving Coalition as David Littleproud announces split with Liberal party after election defeat 2 weeks ago:
The cycle continues… the Free Trade party merged with the Anti-Socialist party, and then with the Protectionist party (ironically enough) to form Deakin’s Liberal party… enough Labor dissidents fused with that to form the Nationalist and then the United Australia Party (no relation to Clive’s party). When the United Australia Party became so politically unfavourable, they completely dissolved and rebranded into the current Liberal party.
Either the coalition re-emerges in the near future (by far the most likely option), or we will see another shake-up/rebranding/fusion. Labor look set to hold power for several terms now, but the longer this continues, the longer the power vacuum for opposition stirs up. There are a lot of independents in the house now, and when they realise they may have collective power against Labor in a coalition with the Liberal party, they may end up uniting. Possibly within the decade. I think it would look very different to the Liberal party of 2025.
- Comment on Labor’s landslide victory obscures a disturbing trend for the major parties 3 weeks ago:
Bills still have to get through the senate to get passed at least, so the party with a lower house majority still does have to cater to that third option somewhat.
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- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 4 weeks ago:
Durack has a 7% swing away from Labor (against the trend of the whole state), I think it’s safe to say that Keep The Sheep was successful in regional areas. However it doesn’t seem to have had much effect in the metro, aside from Canning if you include that.
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 4 weeks ago:
Actually, now that I dig deeper, I see that Canning has an 8% swing to One Nation, dayum…
- Comment on ABC 2025 Election Watch Party 4 weeks ago:
As a Perthlet, I’m pretty happy overall. Only real disappointment is Canning; would have thought it’s within Labor’s grasp but currently looks like a 5% swing against Labor, even after sitting MP Andrew Hastie said we should give our mineral stockpiles to Trump to stop the tarriffs. Any Mandurah locals have some insight into the sentiment - is it the Keep The Sheep campaign maybe?
- Comment on Albanese in trouble as polling shows Dutton most likely to be next PM 3 months ago:
Don’t like this trend. I’m resigned to the fact that an ALP majority is very unlikely but I’m hoping LNP stay well below 76 seats. Independents will have a huge bearing on this election.
Also, I had big fears about Bill Shorten and his lack of charisma in 2019, so seeing Dutton do so well in polls is a huge head scratcher. Politics aside he does not present as a leader at all.
- Comment on New discoveries regarding tomato hormones can increase total yield 9 months ago:
(Nerd warning) So awesome to see strigolactones on lemmy. Any other strigolactone researchers out there? I mostly work on the receptor protein D14.
- Comment on Tasmanian senator Tammy Tyrrell resigns from Jacqui Lambie Network, will sit on crossbench as independent 1 year ago:
Wonder where the disagreement has come from. Stadium maybe?