cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29061644
We’ve done it, we got rid of another soulless right wing politician!
Peter Dutton first made his party lose this election and now also lost his own seat much like Pierre Pullover
We’ve still got a government that green-lit new coal power plants in it’s last term, screwed over the Aboriginal community with a poorly run referendum, and still doesn’t give a shit about climate change, but baby steps hey.
In fairness, winning by like 2.4% in Canada is hardly “booting” anyone to the curb, in a country which does not have a blatant binary on their political processes, like the USA, or Australia.
Yes. Canada should celebrate but know that it is not out of the woods yet. We need a real progressive alternative and we need to stop the momentum of the far-right cult. Right now we have neither; we have just seen off the most immediate threat.
Not to be a party pooper but we’ve seen it before. Hell, we’re seeing it right now with Kid Starver’s labor party.
Libs will claw back an unenthusiastic win, worry about The Economy ™️ (huge bankers and financiers), crack down on leftists then happily get dogwalked by conservatives with a vengeance the next cycle.
Australian Labor is not the UK Labor Party. They have actual talent, because somehow an island of 25 mil can muster more talent than one of 68 mil.
I’m sure some will say that Australian Labor is centrist or even center-right. But regardless, they’re at least halfway competent.
Clarification of the title; He was never our leader. He was the leader of the opposition, the leader of the conservative party, but never Australia’s leader.
And to add insult to injury, he lost his own division. He is the first leader of the opposition in the history of Australia to lose their own divisional seat in the election.
I saw a meme going around about our guy in Canada who met a similar fate. It compared him to a toilet, noting that while both are full of shit, the toilet at least has a seat.
He’s on his way back, because he doesn’t know how to do anything else. Let’s hope his colleagues at least take the party leadership away from him.
Some context, Australia has preferential voting (ranked choice voting). The Greens are recording their hight-yet first-preference votes, but are losing seats, because that is how we count the votes.
Love to see conservatives fall around the planet. Just hope America can catch up and dump our own. But I dream…
