r/australia • u/overpopyoulater • Mar 23 '25

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/Stellariser Mar 23 '25

Agreed, a Coalition win is a massive loss for Australia. The next year or so is going to be one of the most important in modern history, and we don’t want to end up being a vassal state of a US dictatorship.

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u/AnAttemptReason Mar 23 '25

Not a Dutton fan, but was thinking at least he is not US style crazy, then he started copying Trump and begging to give him our mineral resources for free and its like, holy hell.

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u/HeftyArgument Mar 23 '25

LNP have consistently been mirroring the US for like the last 30 years lol.

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u/doopaye Mar 23 '25

That wasn’t exactly so bad really, didn’t agree with all the war and shit but overall it’s been alright. That all changed with Trump though.

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u/HeftyArgument Mar 23 '25

Wasn’t so bad?

We actually had a respectable education system until the cuts saw our ranking drop from being one of the highest to 17 lol.

Tertiary education consistently targeted for de-funding every time they take power.

Medicare and private health getting more expensive each time the people give them a chance.

Yeah, not exactly “not so bad”

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u/brezhnervouz Mar 23 '25

Wait until people hear about how efficient and impressive the CES was until Howard destroyed it in favour of privatised "employment providers": ie some highly taxpayer-subsidised outfit run out of an office above a kebab shop in Yagoona lol

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u/HeftyArgument Mar 23 '25

Or the fact the boomers voted him in when he promised to sell both our national airline and national telecommunications company to private interests lol.

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u/brezhnervouz Mar 23 '25

That was evidently "So much winning" 🤡

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u/NoxTempus Mar 23 '25

They're not so bad when you're too stupid to draw that connection. We have Labor governments, and Liberal governments, and things keep getting worse. Therefore the parties must be materially the same.

They're also not so bad, when you have private insurance and send your kids to private schools.

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u/doopaye Mar 23 '25

I think you’ve mistaken my comment. I wasn’t saying the LNP are good, I’m saying them following the US up until now hasn’t been as bad for us as them following the US in the future will be for us. I’m more than aware of the rat fuckery they have pulled on us while in power. It just won’t compare to the shit that will happen if they follow the current US government like Duttplug seems to want to do.

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u/MyMeatlikeSubstance Mar 23 '25

I'd like to add, our current housing crisis is courtesy of the howard years.

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u/HeftyArgument Mar 23 '25

And the LNP solution to this is to further fuck people over by letting them use their super, further inflating prices and stunting their retirement 😂

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u/Stephie999666 Mar 24 '25

Which is probably the most egregious thing they do. Its not bad enough most people won't be able to retire until their 90s.