Posted on 05/03/2025 6:06:36 PM PDT by Ozguy1945
The coalition campaign in this election has been shocking - incompetent, flatfooted, timid, incoherent and today we saw Liberals (in Australia the major conservative party is called the Liberal Party) ......
If the coalition draws the wrong lesson ..... it risks being destroyed ....... and already I do hear fake autopsies being written like this today by the Prime Minister: "The Liberal Party has become more and more right wing under Peter Dutton ,,,,,"
In fact Dutton isn't of the hard right or certainly hasn't shown it ....... he isn't even offering bigger tax cuts than Labor (the governing party) is ......
It was when Dutton was being the so-calleed cultural warrior saying No to Labor's racist (pro-aboriginal) plan for The Voice for instance that he was destroying Labor. That is why he started this year ahead in the polls saying that he'd cut immigration ....... he'd even announced this plan for those nuclear power stations ..........
Since then he's crashed. ....... Labor ran a campaign of lies that Dutton's a Trump.
I said from the start the Dutton should have picked a fight with Trump to tackle that lie and seem his own man. He wouldn't.
The coalition seemed unable to call out Labor's lies.
I think that's because the coalition had lost the courage of its convictions.
This (Labor) government has slashed living standards, slashed our defences, weakened our electricity system and let in a million immigrants making housing unaffordable for the poor.
There was nothing that was definitively conservative (in the coalition's message).
It wasn't that their policies were too right wing. It was that they stopped arguing for them.
They stopped showing that they were people of conviction.
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“From the long distance vantage point across the Pacific Pond, 1 of the major early signs was the reaction to the Port Arthur Massacre in APR 1996 which resulted in massive gun control laws passed. The Ozzie government also behaved badly during the 2020-2023 COVID Scamdemic.”
scamdenic is a great phrase
American Presidents have powers to make executive orders far transcending what a prime minister in the Westminster system can do
“Time to rethink helping Austrailia build a submarine fleet that may one day be used against us.”
only if Chine takes it over by invading Oz ...... very unlikely but not impossible .........
my dad served under General Douglas MacArthur in Morotai and Balikpapan in 1945 ...... so I think Aussie-U.S. friendship is really important
“Australia like Canada is sunk.
A friend who owns farmland in Canada says he’s selling his land as they love their socialism so much they will never get out of it. His farm is being taxed to the point he cannot profit, and he knows the taxes go to support the socialist freebies.
Like Californians, they keep voting for their own misery. I suspect the Aussies are no different.
I am so happy the great citizenry of this great nation woke up and outvoted election fraud and gave us Trump.”
The Donald is a political genius.
“I can’t believe it. The little socialist, all hat and no cattle, won. And we can’t blame electronic counting machines or fake ballots. Aussies will regret this when the blackouts hit.”
I was a scrutineer of votes at the 2012 federal election here and i can tell you thta you have to follow stuff on a vote-counter’s computer screen that flashes by so fast that you cant scrutinize it and if you have a concern you get ignored
the computer system is designed by a Japanese company with a history of corrupot dealings in the region
Trump’s stupid attacks on our allies have led to the left winning in Canada and Australia.
“Trump’s stupid attacks on our allies have led to the left winning in Canada and Australia.”
i agree with what you say about the damage his actions have done to conservatism.
I think his attacks on Canada were stupid but he was more restrained with respect to Australia.
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