So happy about Australian election result

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Australia has just thrown out its tired, misogynistic, racist and corrupt government and elected a Labour Greens coalition with an agenda for action on climate, social cohesion and implementation of the First Nations Uluru statement.
This is huge. It happened despite a Murdoch dominated press. Our new Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, was brought up in public housing by a single mother with a disability. Finally a new era. Lot of celebration at our house!

I’m now going to read up on the new PM. Thanks for the info.

That sounds like a wonderful out come, well done all the voters!

Would that be the Labour Party who released the costings of their manifesto pledges just two days prior to the election and who plans to add $7.4 billion to the budget deficit?

Would that be the Green Party that wants to cut defence spending to the bone, cancel the AUKUS treaty, not permit US troops on Australian soil and be best friends with China?

I think that's quite a distortion of the position of both parties.

I was really happy to see the result today. I think there will be a lot of difficult things ahead for the boys new government to navigate, but I raised a large glass earlier to the departure of Scott Morrison. Congrats, OP.

Well done Australia in rejecting old reactionary right wing bullshit . Im no hard left winger but your PM was a liability

That is great news as never liked the look of that last one..Hope the greens don't tax you to hell like they are doing here in Ireland as our green guy is a right old wet lettuce and we are taxed soo much but getting nothing back. Enjoy your celebrations and hope we have elections here soon also before our lot bankrupt the lot of us.

I would love the people who voted for the Greens without reading their manifesto to actually have to live with their policies. My children go to a private school and even there some of the people openly support the Greens despite the fact that they are the most hard left wing socialist party, openly want to nationalise various industries, do away with private schools and private healthcare etc.
I guess this is the problem with compulsory voting - people see Greens and go “nice, I like the environment” without actually reading up on what they would like to do.
Having said that, the success of the “independents” (who aren’t independent but are the new Climate 200 party) suggests that people at least have a desire to move towards better climate policies without the Marxist/socialist ideas of the Greens.

And I’m not against the Labour Party despite being ideologically a Liberal. It was time for a change and the Labour policies seem fine so far - I think Albanese realised that the vast majority of people in Australia are pretty central in their ideology so he had to throw out most of his lefty ideals anyway and water them down to form government, which the people have shown they support.

I hope it's a new era, it's the result I wanted, but it more feels like the best option of a bad lot and I'll need to see change actually happen to believe it.

Mad joy last night. Here's to Albo and all the women who ran as independents and finally ousted those miserable fuckers!

Unfortunately there's nothing to celebrate here. Almost all Western 'democracies' are a sham, and Australia is no exception. True democracy and freedom is the ability to accept or reject ideas (policies) one at a time, typically via a referendum, as happens in Switzerland. The political party system everywhere else in the West forces many people to vote for a whole load of policies they don't want, and that usually means voting for the least worst option.

I think the success of the “independents” shows a real disillusionment with the main political parties. It’ll be interesting how the Climate 200/Simon Holmes a Court party uses its/his influence.

We were celebrating quite hard last night!😀 I am a bit worried though, the last time I voted for the winner it Tony Blair, and we all know how that turned out!

Was very surprised to wake up to a new government this morning to be honest!

Thanks for posting. I knew Aus was due a change.

Delighted to hear the news from Australia! I couldn't bear ScoMo. He made my skin crawl.

I'm gonna make a little prediction. Life will get a lot worse for Australians over the next few years. Green politics is going to absolutely destroy living standards.

Albo has 100% modelled himself and the Labour Party on New Labour, most people can see that very clearly. Western Liberal Democracies, especially rich ones like Australia, have no desire to return to the hard Unionist and depressing labour life of the 1970s. Plus business has way too much influence these days to ever go back to the bad old days.

Conservative politics and denial of climate change has seen people's lives and homes wiped out in fires and floods. Some still living in sheds and caravans 2.5 years on. Their living standards pretty comprehensively destroyed.

I’m not so sure about that @YorkshireDude (I mean I hope not!) - Labour have talked a lot about investment and development of technologies for the environment and as part of their manifesto they haven’t said they will raise taxes.
The Greens got a lot of votes but barely any seats so they don’t have that much power, and as soon as their real agenda becomes more well known they’ll lose votes again. People like the environmental stuff but don’t want nationalised industries, banning private schools and especially not banning private healthcare (which is much more prevalent over here than in the U.K. and works really well).

anyway, time will tell - the thing is, I’ve lived long enough now to see that within a fairly short period of time this lot will be out of favour too and the cycle continues.

As an outsider looking in (NZ) I’m worried for you. Not about Albanese, he seems a perfectly pleasant man, but about the coalition. I fear you will end up where we are - a left wing government obsessed with identity politics and lacking a strong backbone in traditional labour/ class politics. I hope this is the case.

This isn’t! the case.

It’s interesting that Katherine Deves, with her support for Women’s sport and an absolutely crucifying campaign against her, still managed to pick up 40% of the primary votes in that electorate.
I honestly hope the Labour govt doesn’t get bogged down in all the small issues of trans ideology (led over here by the Greens).
It’s weird in a way that the climate issue has always fallen to the Greens and a kind of hippy ideology when clearly the best way would be to encourage business to innovate, supported by the government with tax breaks etc.

It's Labor not Labour.

I'm happy for the total shake up Albanese's win has provided. It means they all need to take a hard look at themselves and just fucking do better.

I'm traditionally a swinging voter. This was the first time in my 25 odd years of voting I was very tempted to spoil my ballot. Because I just feel no one listens.

In the end I couldn't waste my chance to be heard so I voted Labor.