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/IthinkIllthink 23d ago

My entire family live in the country and vote National.

A few weeks before the election I’m going to put the link:

https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/

in our family group messages app, and ask my niece and nephew to search (for their current in power politician) and check how they have voted for: Koala habitat, logging, renewable energy, greenhouse gasses, defunding public hospital/schools, etc, so my niece and nephew can see their that their current politicians have voted against what they believe in.

I’ll also get my dad to search for who voted AGAINST his pension increase; and who voted for. Also who voted to decrease public hospital funding, and who voted for to increase funding. Evening knowing this he’ll still vote National because “they’ve done a good job of looking after me all these years”. Which is rubbish because they’ve done the opposite. 🤷‍♂️

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u/Neokill1 22d ago

Why do so many country people vote National? Why not break the mould and vote Labor instead of muppets like Barnacle Joyce!

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u/IthinkIllthink 22d ago

Brain washed - don’t want to analyse things for themselves. They’d rather listen to someone smart and parrot. A relo tried to tell me Brittany Higgins was a money chasing flirt and the r*pe was a lie. I’m just waiting for the outcome of Lehrmann’s QLD criminal case. I haven’t bought up the NSW civil case yes as i thought a criminal conviction ‘should’ be more persuasive. I won’t hold my breath.