The Aussies being way ahead of us timewise have already started voting in their national elections on Saturday. About 25% of voters have already pre-voted
Climate and taxes dominate as Australia votes
Australia
Fri, 2019-05-17 21:26
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Results look good for Coalition and bad for Labor.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2019/may/18/australian-f...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-48305001
Shorten concedes
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-48305001
That's not what the polls going into that campaign were suggesting.
Any follow up or analysis of what happened?
Preferential ballots. The ranked voting system that Justin Trudeau wanted.
“the correct way to vote is to put a number 1 next to the Liberals and number every other box”, and appear to be written like an official AEC instruction to voters. https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/election-2019/2019/05/18/chinese-liberal...
Australian Election Betting: Liberal Party Now $5.75
Well, more accurately, false instructions about how to use a ranked ballot. Which isn't really the fault of the ranked-ballot system itself.
They should redo the election but of course the election thieves will have none of that and they are the ones with the power. So Australia will be ruled by a fraudulent government. Ugh!
Why would they re-do the election? The governing coalition won 41% of the vote, while the "Labor" party took 34%. Ranked ballots mean the Greens (10%) have little chance to win more than the one seat they hold. But though the result is horrifying, I've seen no accusations of fraud.
The result is a comprehensive failure for the Australian Labor Party-a "social democratic" party which no longer has any social or democratic values to it and which drove many if not most activists away decades ago when a right-wing cabal took over the party after the "constitutional coup" of 1975, blaming the Left for the defeat of the Whitlam ALP government, even though that defeat was caused solely by the intervention of the CIA in Australian politics.
That same cabal has had an iron grip on the ALP ever since, even though the party has spent more of the post-1975 era in opposition than in government.
This defeat is solely on that cabal. The Australian Labor Party now needs a total shakeup and a removal of that lot if it is ever to regain relevance in Australian politics again.
Currently with almost 77% of the votes counted, the two party preferred count is: Coalition 50.8%, Labor 49.2%. The first preference count is Coalition 41.4%, Labor 33.9%, Green 10.1%.
There seems to be some honest truth to that
Australia is a colonial country. And I can’t see it breaking away from the vicious circle that Australians are caught in.
Racism needs to be addressed for starters
https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2017/08/09/australia-racist-not-way-you-think
Labor and the Greens have to join forces – for the climate's sake
For some it’s the option of last resort. But how much action on climate change has either party driven alone?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2019/jun/02/labor-and-the-greens-have-to-join-forces-for-the-climates-sake
Australia has instant runoff voting so I don’t see why Labor and the Greens should merge there.
The reason is simple It is not working for them
Because Labor is in the back pockets of the same corporations as the Coalition?
There is that. In many respects, the ALP has never recovered from all the years it was run by Bob Hawke-one of Reagan's favorite "allied" government leaders, famous for echoing Reagan's arrogant demands that New Zealand drop its no port calls for ships with nuclear weapons policy. Hawke was a nasty piece of work and cared more about making sure nothing remotely socialist happened under an ALP government than he ever did about fighting against the agenda of the corporate neoliberal right or presenting any real alternative to that agenda.
Hawke combined the most thoroughly ugly aspects of the "anti-communist 'social democrat'" type.
Becase vote-splitting is not a problem with instant runoff voting as it is with FPTP plurality voting.
More Police Raids As War on Journalism Escalates Worldwide
https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1136265980793856000
"The Assange effect is now taking hold throughout the US-centralised empire. You can choose to ignore it or dismiss it with a pleasant story, or you can acknowledge that we appear to be in the midst of a rapidly escalating shutdown of the free press in the western world..."
More Police Raids As War on Journalism Escalates Worldwide
https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1136265980793856000
"The Assange effect is now taking hold throughout the US-centralised empire. You can choose to ignore it or dismiss it with a pleasant story, or you can acknowledge that we appear to be in the midst of a rapidly escalating shutdown of the free press in the western world..."
Not crazy about Australia. From my perspective, it appears to be too white conservative imperialist.
Backwards, badly informed and barbaric like Canada. And genocidal...
Ban white conservatives from Australia.
I think that strategy is at least 400 years to late.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/11/01/australias-prime-minister-pledges-outlaw-climate-boycotts-arguing-they-threaten-economy/?wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1