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Not to be a party pooper but we've seen it before. Hell, we're seeing it right now with Kid Starver's labor party.
Libs will claw back an unenthusiastic win, worry about The Economy ™️ (huge bankers and financiers), crack down on leftists then happily get dogwalked by conservatives with a vengeance the next cycle.
Australian Labor is not the UK Labor Party. They have actual talent, because somehow an island of 25 mil can muster more talent than one of 68 mil.
I'm sure some will say that Australian Labor is centrist or even center-right. But regardless, they're at least halfway competent.
In fairness, winning by like 2.4% in Canada is hardly "booting" anyone to the curb, in a country which does not have a blatant binary on their political processes, like the USA, or Australia.
Australia's two-party system is consistently shrinking, possible in part due to the IRV ranked voting system removing the spoiler effect. They still get about a third each, so I don't think you're wrong that there's a near-binary situation.
Canada would really benefit from IRV right now. Due to FPTP, there was a lot of strategic voting involved. At the cost of the three smaller parties.
That's the problem, right? The people in power usually benefit from preserving the system that gives them power. Even the major Australian parties have been adding laws which make it harder for minor parties to receive as much funding.
Yes. Canada should celebrate but know that it is not out of the woods yet. We need a real progressive alternative and we need to stop the momentum of the far-right cult. Right now we have neither; we have just seen off the most immediate threat.
As a Canadian, I love that your conservative leader also lost his seat!
Someone else stepped down yesterday and offered him his seat and he accepted.
So yeah, he lost but he is not out.
Clarification of the title; He was never our leader. He was the leader of the opposition, the leader of the conservative party, but never Australia's leader.
And to add insult to injury, he lost his own division. He is the first leader of the opposition in the history of Australia to lose their own divisional seat in the election.
I saw a meme going around about our guy in Canada who met a similar fate. It compared him to a toilet, noting that while both are full of shit, the toilet at least has a seat.
He's on his way back, because he doesn't know how to do anything else. Let's hope his colleagues at least take the party leadership away from him.
Some context, Australia has preferential voting (ranked choice voting). The Greens are recording their hight-yet first-preference votes, but are losing seats, because that is how we count the votes.
Love to see conservatives fall around the planet. Just hope America can catch up and dump our own. But I dream....
They're largely losing because of Trump.
Correct and I love that for them. Now we just need our own people to wake up.
Our people? It's the Democrats that need to wake up. They lost (and will continue to lose) as long as they propose merely to fiddle on the margins while the promise of a future crumbles.