This whole country is frothing at the mouth to make sure as many kids are born as possible so they can proceed to neglect them and throw them in jail when they understandably lose it.
I fucking hate this shithole. I know it’s not the peoples fault they are bombarded by fear and propaganda, but at the same time I find it hard to relate to a society that hates their own children. I feel surrounded by monsters. 
Oh, also voting is mandatory here. So all those libs thinking anti-electoralism is your biggest hurdle to winning? Yeah, no. Your biggest hurdle is your own parties total refusal to stand up to the far-right and deliver on any promises. Failure to oppose imperialism. Your support of capitalism. Your funding of far-right proxy wars. Failure to present any real counter argument. Your support of private companies and insipid courting of right-wing voters that will never respect you. And most of all your hatred of the left and refusal to work with them and your insistence on compromising with capitalism.
You are pathetic and the only one to blame for people like Trump is yourself, not “Tankies”
I’m a Queenslander and the number of people I heard saying “We’ve had the Labor party for a decade now, I’m voting the LNP to give them a turn” - fucking idiots who can’t take 5 minutes out of their day to check what a parties policies are is crazy, we live in a world where the sum of information is in your pocket. It makes a great case for abolishing our compulsory voting laws, when people can’t engage.
Not only lament the erosion of rights under the conservatives, but the loss of all the green energy projects the previous government had in the the pipeline, as well as these new fuckwits cutting the tax on resources and mining that their overlords wanted. With the resource tax gone they’ll be in debt inside a year (which they’ll blame on the outgoing gov) and we’ll be back to job cuts and austerity just like the last time these people of reduced governing capability were in power here.
“Unless you have investigated a problem, you will be deprived of the right to speak on it. Isn’t that too harsh? Not in the least. When you have not probed into a problem, into the present facts and its past history, and know nothing of its essentials, whatever you say about it will undoubtedly be nonsense. Talking nonsense solves no problems, as everyone knows, so why is it unjust to deprive you of the right to speak? Quite a few comrades always keep their eyes shut and talk nonsense, and for a Communist that is disgraceful. How can a Communist keep his eyes shut and talk nonsense?” — Oppose Book Worship by Mao Zedong, 1930
Democracy is when you average policies of two groups of weird elites. The more average the more democracy.
btw slur in post is a bit unpleasant, mayhaps edit it?
“We should do the average of what everybody in power wants!”
- Guy at my work in 2022, word for word
Imagine being an enlightened centrist image macro.
The resource tax Labor put in was only at times for very high coal prices - they’ll continue to pay like $13 a ton while the price is $150. I reckon LNP will get rid of the lower and 40 percent tiers for symbolic reasons but I’d be surprised if they cut the taxation amount below the $150 price tier.
Ripping out all the renewable programs won’t have an immediate impact, but in 8-12 years there will be huge issues as the coal plants continue to degrade and reach their end of life.
This article suggests the pre 2030 renewable projects will probably still happen and some of the wind, Perhaps they will be dragged kicking and screaming into the future, or we’ll spend the next decade load shedding
it IS the people’s fault
nah i’m done, australians are willfully stupid, i despise everyone who refuses to wake the fuck up
this settler colony will burn too
Mandatory voting in this case means, turn up and get your name ticked off, or get a $200 fine
#democracy
We literally have people at the voting booths handing you fliers seconds before you vote.
People undecided until the last minute? Sounds like good informed democracy to me!
I sure do love this liberal “democracy.” Totally free! Not at all beholden to anything else!
OTOH it’s fun to find the freshest LNP volunteer and look at them curiously while saying “Wow, that’s a really realistic human suit”
I always enjoy scoffing at whatever trot group is there, telling them i know how to vote thanks, one time i absent mindedly walked directly over to the liberals, who i also laughed at before going in side
I actually always enjoy the democracy larp, but I’m not a punishing shite about it, democrats take note
Australia sucks everywhere but simultaneously as a Victorian I must protest as QLD being used as the example.
Shared sentiments from another Vic
But I was told that Australia is a cool, high salaries, surfer nation, not a settler colony :(
Australia is a shithole mini-US.
Very accurate. The average australian voted to remain cucks to the english crown when they had a referendum for independence or whatever in the 90s. Recently, the rabid shaved apes in the northern territory’s state government voted to lower the age of “criminal responsibility” to 10 years old so they have an excuse to throw more indigenous children in jail and continue this vicious cycle of physical and cultural genocide by the western legal apparatus. The fucking prime minister and all his loyal cabinet are hopeless zionist shills who need to be tried in the ICC for complicity in warcrimes. This is a hopelessly corrupt settler colony in desperate need of denazification.
State elections here can be used to take the temperature of the federal government in the same way the mid terms are used in the States. Things are not looking good for federal Labour
Anti-Settler State Action
Yeah.
Labor did surprisingly not as bad as everyone thought they would though. Shame they fucked the greens over.
If they progress any anti-abortion laws they’re done at the next election
Crisafulli in his victory speech was pleading to his party to not go nuts (“we’re not America”) so they can get a second term
Good result for ALP given where they were 12 months ago and the popularity of the policies they had ($1000 electricity payment, 50 cent public transport, government-run petrol stations, government-run electricity retailer)
Shame they spent so much time and money campaigning against the Greens but that’s classic ALP
Queensland
Why am I not surprised? Not that the rest of the country is any better. Looking at you, NT…
