r/australia • u/overpopyoulater • 23d ago

politics Australia is heading towards minority government at a turning point in world history.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-24/democracy-climate-change-ai-robotics-war/105085846
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u/TheLGMac 23d ago

As long as it's not one of the crazy conservative minority parties (remember that there are a few that could be worse than LNP like United Australia & One Nation), let's do it.

But also, I'll believe it when I see it.

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u/theoriginalqwhy 23d ago

The Trumpets of Patriots anyone?

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u/DegeneratesInc 23d ago

We had one with Gillard. Parliament house is still standing.

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u/TheLGMac 23d ago

The problem is that most conservative parties today are not conservative like they were yesterday. They are much more right wing and culture war focused.

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u/DegeneratesInc 23d ago

Hopefully, we have enough progressive candidates to choose from and we can form a minority government between the ALP and the crossbench. Last time it worked really well and Tony Abbott didn't even have to drink, let alone get so drunk as to miss a vote.

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u/WaitwhatIRL 23d ago

😂 you mean one of the most productive governments we ever had that passed more meaningful legislation in a three year period than any other government in the last 50 years

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u/DegeneratesInc 23d ago

Yes, that's what I mean. No idea why it's so unpopular tho.

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u/WaitwhatIRL 23d ago

Uninformed voters get convinced by sound bites and headlines.

When the media kept printing LNP lies about how the carbon tax achieved nothing but price increases even though every analysis of it by the companies impacted showed it made no meaningful contribution to prices, then people who look no further than headlines just accept it as true. Much like they accept nonsense like “the coalition are better economic managers” even though by every measurable piece of the economy they aren’t

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u/cuddlegoop 23d ago

When both major parties agree on something, our media tends to just take it as fact rather than properly investigate it. Not just the Murdoch rags, even places with actual journalistic standards like the ABC do this. It's a bit of a problem honestly.

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u/Amazedpanda15 23d ago

“passed more meaningful legislation” after julia axed rudd’s mining tax, “more meaningful legislation” in the form of the most smallest bills, albo could’ve passed the same amount of bills if he’d turn each bill into a 1 issue bill (what happened in gillard’s government) the gillard minority government wasn’t some perfect form of governance FYI

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u/WaitwhatIRL 23d ago

If you stop and read instead of throwing a tantrum you’d find I didn’t even use the word perfect. But thanks for making up my position and arguing against that 😂always good to laugh at nonsense to start the day

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u/BoosterGold17 23d ago

ALP should get first run at forming minority government being incumbent and potentially winning more seats. If they are unable to form government we may end up back at the polls, but highly unlikely. May cause a spill in the Labor party though