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IT'S ON: Albanese to call May 3 federal election tomorrow morning (www.abc.net.au)
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In short:

The federal election will be called tomorrow for May 3, the ABC has confirmed.

It triggers a five-week campaign to convince voters whether Labor under Anthony Albanese or the Coalition under Peter Dutton is most fit to lead the country.

What's next?

The prime minister will head to government house tomorrow morning to call the election.

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[–] repomonkey@aussie.zone 7 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I'll be voting for whoever seems the most communist. Which is of course literally none of them. Even on the left-wing ones are just centrists.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The Greens range from centre-left to genuine communists. There aren't many of the latter, but it's more than you'll find in Labor. And even Labor's centrism is closer to communism than the LNP's far right.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I feel the exact opposite tbh, that Labor is closer to the Liberals (not the Coalition as a whole) than the Greens.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That doesn't disagree with what I said, though?

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago

I think saying, essentially "Labor is to the left of the LNP" is kind of a given, and a moot point then. Albo's Labor have been pushing further right than ever before. A dose of minority government would do them well.

[–] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 6 points 6 days ago

Though that does technically make them more communist than the LNP so number ALP above LNP but vote for whoever is more left above ALP.

[–] eureka@aussie.zone 2 points 6 days ago

I’ll be voting for whoever seems the most communist. Which is of course literally none of them. Even on the left-wing ones are just centrists.

Some electorates have Socialist Alliance (explicitly democratic socialists, not to be confused with capitalist social democrats like typical Greens), VicSoc (the major sub-party is SAlt, a "revolutionary" communist organisation despite their electoralism), and some independents and Greens are open communists.

Know your candidates if you want to vote for anti-capitalists. If you're unlucky you might have to settle for the Senate only, but you should still push as "left" as possible in the House of Reps even if they aren't anti-capitalist.