As an American I would like to say that I’m sorry America, even in a small way, is responsible for the spelling of the name of a political party “Labor” that has done so much to destroy a faithful ally of the United States!
BTW, if you guys are successful in driving out the Left from the government of Australia, could a conservative Republican Yank like myself obtain political asylum in “Oz?”
After all, I do live in a semi-Communist country on its way to the REAL THING.
While I can see America heading further left, in all honesty, I have to say that in many ways Australia is further left. Our welfare system is a lot more prevalent than that of the US. We have universal health care (which is actually supported here by most conservatives because we actually seem to have developed a system that works quite well - as you still have the option to ‘go private’ if you wish).
In some other ways, I think our system is more conservative than Americas (for example, when it comes to education - private schools, which are mostly religious, receive some government financial support in Australia and one third of our children attend private schools, greatly reducing the control government schools have and also encouraging them to improve). We also don’t seem to have some of the race-related problems you have (we have our own issues with our indigenous population, but that’s a small proportion of the population) and that reduces some other issues as well.