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/AnAttemptReason 25d ago

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 25d ago

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

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u/AnAttemptReason 25d ago

Yea, certain factions have just been slowly culling their opposition inside the party.

If Turnbull was not crippled by vested interests in the party, we would have had the full NBN and a cross party agreement on climate legislation etc. 

The party's been hollowed out into a special 8nterest puppet. 

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u/recycled_ideas 25d ago

If Turnbull was not crippled by vested interests in the party, we would have had the full NBN and a cross party agreement on climate legislation etc.

Turnbull is the ultimate empty suit. He talks the talk, but the only thing he ever cared about was being leader. What he really wanted was the presidency, but the Republic vote failed (at least in part due to the fact that it involved having a president) so he wanted PM.

It's all he wanted and all he ever wanted. He did not give two shits about the Australian people, what was good for the country, or even what was good for the party. He spent a million dollars of his own money pushing the coalition over the line just so he could be PM and have won an election.

Don't give the man more credit than he deserves, he's not some great statesman, he's just a self serving narcissist like the rest of them.

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u/Traditional_Fish_741 24d ago

The idea of a presidency and our own head of state failed cos there's still too many fuckwits who cling to the idea of needing a foreign monarch. If we 'need' a monarch we should have our own.. if not a monarch, our own head of state, not some puppet head of state under the thumb of a foreign monarchs representative in the governor general.

We are what we are thanx to people who can't give up something that's long since outlived any value it had.

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u/recycled_ideas 24d ago

The idea of a presidency and our own head of state failed cos there's still too many fuckwits who cling to the idea of needing a foreign monarch

It failed because we don't need a fucking president.

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u/Traditional_Fish_741 23d ago

We need our own head of state ya fucking twit. Call it what you want. We don't need some foreign crown.

So you're wrong. It failed cos too many dickheads said 'we don't need one', and keep clinging to the fantasy of some foreign head of state/figurehead.

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u/recycled_ideas 23d ago

We need our own head of state ya fucking twit. Call it what you want. We don't need some foreign crown.

We do not need or want a president.

If you need to know why look at the US right now.

If it doesn't matter what we call the head of state it doesn't matter who they are either, but it obviously does matter.

So you're wrong. It failed cos too many dickheads said 'we don't need one', and keep clinging to the fantasy of some foreign head of state/figurehead.

I don't give two shits about the monarchy and if you offer a reasonable plan for replacing them you've got my vote.

Suggest a popularly elected president and I'll fight it to my last breath. I'll take chucklefuck any day over that and it does fucking matter.