In short:
The federal election will be called tomorrow for May 3, the ABC has confirmed.
It triggers a five-week campaign to convince voters whether Labor under Anthony Albanese or the Coalition under Peter Dutton is most fit to lead the country.
What’s next?
The prime minister will head to government house tomorrow morning to call the election.
As usual I’ll vote for left independents, then Labor, then liberal, then the right wing independents.
Don’t vote 1 for the major parties guys. Minor parties and independents don’t need a majority they just need to prevent either of the big ones from getting one and they’ll be forced to negotiate.
The exception here being teal independents who vote with the Libs, as the colour name suggests, they’re not for workers. The only difference is that they believe in climate change and are not as socially conservative.
Handy tool: https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/
Plus, you can control where your preferences go anyway if your first choices don’t get elected.
Great. Fucking wall to wall dutton bullshit
Am seriously considering just deleting my news apps until it’s over. I am in a safe seat. I know how to get local info so I can decide who’s a climate/progressive independent and who’s a cooker. I don’t think I can handle hearing how more gas exploration and firing 40 thousand people is the way forward.
Oh yeah!! Who called it in November 2024, baby?!
If it wasn’t for Cyclone Alfred, I reckon my prediction of 12 April (given WA went crazy good for Labor) would’ve been correct.
I’ll be voting for whoever seems the most communist. Which is of course literally none of them. Even on the left-wing ones are just centrists.
The Greens range from centre-left to genuine communists. There aren’t many of the latter, but it’s more than you’ll find in Labor. And even Labor’s centrism is closer to communism than the LNP’s far right.
I feel the exact opposite tbh, that Labor is closer to the Liberals (not the Coalition as a whole) than the Greens.
That doesn’t disagree with what I said, though?
I think saying, essentially “Labor is to the left of the LNP” is kind of a given, and a moot point then. Albo’s Labor have been pushing further right than ever before. A dose of minority government would do them well.
Though that does technically make them more communist than the LNP so number ALP above LNP but vote for whoever is more left above ALP.
I’ll be voting for whoever seems the most communist. Which is of course literally none of them. Even on the left-wing ones are just centrists.
Some electorates have Socialist Alliance (explicitly democratic socialists, not to be confused with capitalist social democrats like typical Greens), VicSoc (the major sub-party is SAlt, a “revolutionary” communist organisation despite their electoralism), and some independents and Greens are open communists.
Know your candidates if you want to vote for anti-capitalists. If you’re unlucky you might have to settle for the Senate only, but you should still push as “left” as possible in the House of Reps even if they aren’t anti-capitalist.
*Albanian. And it’s European news. /s
A May 3 decision between a giant douche and a turd sandwich. I’ll be voting for an independent, and definitely not the commie greens.
As much as I love the south park analogy it simply doesn’t apply to our system at all.
I was discussing this just a couple of days ago. Greens have terrible marketing and are in desperate need of a rebrand. I’m curious though: Which of their policies are you opposed to? Because honestly: if breaking up bank cartels, restoring Internet privacy laws, promoting local manufacturing, science and research as well as improving the calibre of education are bad, then I guess I’m bad.
For me, my criticism of Greens comes mainly from putting stuff in policies that would be better suited to “dreams and aspirations”. They have a tendency to put stuff in there that are unspecific or at least out of the realms of what government does. But for all of that, I struggle to point to anything on their policy stuff and say “that’s an awful position”. At least, even if I’m not totally on-board, I see where they’re coming from. And that’s another point. Their policies page overwhelms you with too much to actually go through in one sitting. But, look at the Liberal/Labor equivalent pages? Greens are super open about what they stand for and what they would like to achieve. Labor have a few bullet points and Libs have a marketing brochure.
That Labor page is a bit pathetic isn’t it.
I imagine they’re going to roll out something fancy once the election is announced.
I’m a bit surprised neither of the two major parties really seems interested in environmental sustainability. Last election the teal independents really stole the show.
LNP’s nuclear power plan is just an excuse to keep burning coal for another 30 years. I think most people who actually care about emissions will see that, but the existence of a plan will ease the conscience of LNP voters.
Labor has updated their policies this morning with the campaign announcement:
In my other comment I mentioned LNP’s climate change position, here is ALPs:
So I had a brief look at the Labor policies, and to be frank, it all looks reasonable. I didn’t see anything there where I thought “that’s an awful position”.
So I re-visited the Liberal version. Maybe they all sound fine at first. Oh wow the Liberal one is awful. It’s all ‘Labor bad’ and ‘Under Labor…’ and ‘fix the mess of Labor’. Why are they the only party of the three to trash talk their opponents?
I think that’s pretty classic conservative politics isn’t it?
Not specifically whingeing about everyone else maybe but certainly undoing all the mistakes the progressives have made.
Hating the greens for being too commie 🤝 hating greens for not being commie enough
We need the goldilocks zone of communism.
The Greens are trying to cut emissions, so consider we have three kangaroos; a big kangaroo, a small…
Vote Green and save the brush-tailed rock wallaby!
You’re a fool, only the animal justice party has what it takes to handle that
They’re a good option although I can’t tell if you really care about animal rights or you’re a fool who would like to splinter the 3rd biggest party into smaller options. The thing about the environment is that it is a meta-issue, all other issues cease to matter if the environment becomes unliveable.
Luckily, splintering is generally-speaking not an issue, because of how our voting system works.
Technically
Technically speaking, if you splintered so much that the Greens fell behind on 1st preference votes, they could be eliminated early. But in that case it would probably have to be because a different left-wing environment-focused party (maybe AJP) did better than them, and Greens votes would probably go there after elimination.
I thought Mr musk taught us that we can be capitalist and save the planet at the same time
