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Despite everything Albanese says, Australia has already sold its soul to the drmpf administration. They had the chance to cancel Aukus and the failed. Lost my vote until they reverse aukus
Vote Greens / Socialist!
You've written those in the wrong order for Australia. Greens are not an anti-capitalist party. There are a lot of tree tories in the Greens in Australia, unfortunately.
Still a way better choice than Labor though.
And somehow they ensured greens/socialist can't raise enough funds. Look at VIC, greens had a good federal base there until the recent elections now it seems more messed up than ever.
Good thing is the preferential voting (where first priority votes get some representation) but yeah needs a massive revolution.
Could you expand on this? Who is "they" and how are they doing this?
I'll preference the Greens over Labor because the Labor party is a centre-right party, but fuck, the Greens had such a sook when they lost at the last federal election, even claiming that preferential voting was somehow unfair.
Like???
Wtf.
Git gud The Greens, Christ.
P.S. I think single member electorates ought to be expanded to 3 member electorates (and maybe increase the number of lower house MPs by 50%), to mitigate against a party getting less than 50% of the vote (after preferences) but more than 50% of the seats and therefore 100% of the power.
I'm not for state-wide proportional in the lower house though, because it'll make forming government too difficult in my opinion (evidenced by Tasmania and a bunch of European countries where that's a thing). I think having a proportional upper house with Hare-Clark is pretty decent as a tempering.
I think this is what that person was referring to.
Greens are big enough to weather it but it shafts all of the independents and smaller parties. When this was passed, I felt in my gut that the primary purpose was to try and limit the spread of the Teal wave from taking over Lib seats.
They should have dropped AUKUS. They should have done a lot of things but it seems like Labor just want to continue the status quo from Scomo.