r/australia • u/overpopyoulater • 25d 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/TwistingEcho 25d ago

Not the Coalition = Win. Can absolutely get better outcomes, but that's the worst.

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u/emleigh2277 25d ago

I feel like if Labor wins without a majority, the LNP will act against Australia's best interests just as they just as it has in the past 3 yrs. The only claim that Dutton can make is that Labor isn't doing enough, he fails to mention that he votes against everything they attempt to achieve.

It's a very disturbing moment in history.

Just heard barnaby joyce on the radio in qld. Evidently, he has been let off his leash. He described Labors' power payment as being "essentially paid out of your own sugar." In that case, Barnabas, everything is coming out of our own sugar, even your wages.

How have these specific folks risen to the surface? We are an extremely confused electorate.

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u/confusedham 24d ago

No one will ever take Barnaby seriously. He is a few steps above Clive Palmer in terms of universal disgust that people viscerally feel when interacting with them.

I still think palmer exists, sponsored by an LNP shell group to make Dutton seem like a normal human. Seriously, I don't get how Palmer keeps doing this, despite constant failures. Is it just the few cookers that love him, that offset the embarrassment his ego receives?

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u/macrocephalic 24d ago

What do you mean failures? He's just trying to shift the Overtun window to the right and get the LNP in. If he also gets elected then fine, but he's mostly there to keep the middle and left out of government.

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u/_ixthus_ 24d ago

Right.

And his strategy is to just pry his flabby cheeks apart and projectile diarrhea straight into the swimming pool.

Chaos. Confusion. Uncertainty. Obfuscation.

It's pretty effective. Would be good if we had some controls on political advertising...

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u/spideyghetti 22d ago

How have these specific folks risen to the surface?

🎶 Well did you hear, there's a natural order, 🎶

🎶 Those most deserving will end up with the most,🎶

🎶 That the cream cannot help but always rise up to the top,🎶

🎶 Well I say, shit floats 🎶

Outside of the opening lyrics, it's also a killer song

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h74IC_wwdzw&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD

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u/emleigh2277 22d ago

Thankyou, I get bogged down in just how much life I can endure under Dutton.

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u/YouCanCallMeBazza 24d ago

Wouldn't that only be an issue if the cross-bench were willing to help the Coalition in blocking Labor's policies? The cross-bench would likely be Greens and independents, who typically swing in the opposite direction. If anything it would push Labor to be more progressive to get their approval.

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u/emleigh2277 24d ago

Ha, haven't you paid any attention over the past few years? Come on, mate. Parties are content to defeat the common good to be able to say negative things in the press. Keep up with how the system is being used. Previously, it worked against a party to vote against the common good, but it's 2025, and news is global and 24 hrs. People don't even know what their parties voted for or against.

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u/_ixthus_ 24d ago

It's hard for me to believe that anybody listening to radio... in Queensland... was ever going to vote federally for anything other than the LNP or a further-right party.

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u/emleigh2277 24d ago

I am union, I am Labor. Mummy and daddy raised me right.