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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.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm a kiwi, so I only hear about Australia's most significant developments, but even then, some of the claims you're making are wrong.

the majority of stuff they offer are stopgaps, instead of fixing the real underlying issues.

They're probably putting in stopgaps to make it less painful while the fixes to the underlying issues gain steam.

High power bills [...]

This will probably be solved (or stop getting worse) as a side effect of Future Made in Australia investing in the Australian manufacture of renewable energy technologies, as Australian made versions are likely to be cheaper than global competitors (at least in Australia). It's also important to note that rising energy prices is not just an Australian problem, considering NZ's wholesale electricity price has risen >30% despite 80% of our electricity coming from renewables (and doesn't have variable running costs).

[...] housing supply, or over demand, [...]

This will probably be mitigated by the Housing Australia Future Fund as it is set up to be able to spend $500 million per year on housing in perpetuity without any additional funding. This means they could technically "sell" something like 2000 houses a year for free forever. On a more realistic note they could take a $50k loss on 10000 houses per year to help mitigate the housing supply problem.

[..] tax cuts.

It is technically possible to have tax cuts that benefit only those who are not already rolling in it, but those kinds of tax cuts are so uncommon you're likely to see a unicorn before they happen. The tax cuts are probably going to be something like the tax cuts we saw over here where the only ones that benefit are the already very wealthy.

[...] they are still cosy with the coal lobby, [...]

I was under the impression that they were majorly funded by the unions. Considering this winge piece complains about the mining industry paying 5x more in tax than they used to and makes the misleading insinuation that it is paying the majority of Australia's tax share, I'd say that they're probably not funded by the mining lobby. (Values from the Australian Treasury suggest that they're paying <10% of the total tax income)

[...] they won’t do anything for the climate emergency [and they don't have any] plans to reduce or go net zero in this term of this new government.

They appear to have this net zero plan I found on a .gov.au website? I notice it doesn't target net zero within the next 3 years because that's simply impossible. The climate action tracker suggests that Australia is doing better than NZ in terms of climate policy, especially considering our action is considered "highly insufficient."

You make the claim that it isn't progressive, but over here it certainly would be. Either way, we can still celebrate that it isn't Trumpism.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

ty mate, amazing response