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Labor has stormed to victory in the federal election and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will lead a majority government following a disastrous night for the Coalition and Peter Dutton.

At 8.24pm, less than half an hour after the final polls closed in Western Australia, 9News projected Labor had won the election.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

At 8.24pm, less than half an hour after the final polls closed in Western Australia, 9News projected Labor had won the election.

This makes it sound like the result arrived extraordinarily quickly (which, in fairness, it was a very fast call) but elections here are decided entirely in the eastern states. It was obvious that the swing was on and Labor were clear favourites to win before polls in WA even closed.

By far the best news of the night though was that Temu Trump (Peter Dutton) lost his own seat just like Pierre Polievre in Canada several days ago. That makes him the first opposition leader to lose their own seat at a federal election.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Are these guys Labour like the UK's Labour (basically a centre-right wing party in disguise these days), or are they legitimately a left-wing pro socialist workers rights party, like Labour should be?

If the latter, good for them! They deserve good things over there.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Australia's politics are weird. Our 'liberal' party is the conservative one. Our 'nationals' party is meant to represent the people in rural communities, but are somehow more corrupt and full of shit than the 'liberals'. Our 'labor' party has literally never given birth, and nobody in 'The Greens' is actually green. Needless to say, Australia is weird.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Thank you for that, didn’t know.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It depends who you ask.

In practice, the former.

I want to believe some Labor politicians are the latter, but afraid to show it because it's punished the party politically in the past. There are definitely right and left factions within the party, it's just not clear what the balance is.

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

This isnt just a win for Labor, this is a historic landslide after the already historic landslide in 2022. The Liberals could hold as few as 40/150 seats in the house after today, and Labor as many as 90. This could be their greatest victory since the Second World War, and the Liberals (who, to clarify, are conservative) smallest representation since their formation. There was something like a 5% swing away from the Liberals. Likewise, this result appears to have elected the most independents to parliament in decades.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Trump is turning the world to the left.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

People need to see fascism in action in other countries to be reminded of what it is, too bad that it had to be the US, last time it was Germany.

Too bad voters can't live in a simulation showing the consequences of their vote before they do so, that way it wouldn't be necessary to stumble and waste resources/progress that we're going to need in the future.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 days ago (4 children)

The simulation you’re talking about is the population being able to access higher education so that they understand their vote.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

It's amazing, and disappointing, that the simple exercise of "Let me predict what the consequences of my vote will be" seems beyond so many people.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

Literally, just step back and look at history.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Pre-WW1 and WW2 Germans were some of the most educated, informed and progressive societies in the world at the time and it didn't stop them blundering into jingoism and fascism, I don't think it is just that.

There is a large component of "the socialists/wokes are coming for you" which glitches regular people into protest voting to the right of center instead of for a left that actually represents their interests.

PS: there is also infighting between lefties, far lefties, "moderates" and liberals that can prevent them from aligning against fascist demagogues until it is too late.

PPS: also, if you just study a lot of STEM in college, your views on humanities may still be atrocious, like elonstans.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

The universe seeks balance

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 days ago (35 children)

I can finally have a couple months off from stressing over our politics because we reelected the competent side.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's been pretty nice. I've been catching up on new (to me) music releases.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

Culture!?! I forgot that was a thing I could do with my time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

This and the GTA6 release date announcement today is a good news day.

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