Are any of you involved in local politics? I ran for the Secular

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>>67437653
kys faggot

>>67437653
Volunteer at my local members office 2bh, been a member of the ALP for a while

I'm pretty big into political activism. I like and share stuff on Facebook.

>>67437653
Why no Conservative party?

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>>67437686
>ALP

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>>67437653
Aussies actually have politics?
I imagined you just put some kangaroos in a ring to fight each other and the winner roos' owner gets to be the PM

>>67437695
I bet you don't even get likes haha
My last status got 10 likes. I'll be running for president next year.

Who unironically votes green? They fail at the one thing they exist for, protecting the environment.

>>67441213
>Who unironically votes green?
Tasmanians

does australia have the retarded first past the post system in use?

Secular Party?

Don't you already have separation of church and state?

>>67440401
he isn't 50 yo

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>>67441329
Coming from America

>>67437653
Anyone who votes green in any country is a fucking memester

>american liberals
>go vote for Jill Stein because muh high morals and muh lofty unrealistic goals
>prioritize environment
>as a result, help elect a candidate who thinks climate change is a hoax, who wants to tear climate agreements to tiny pieces, and who wants coal mining to be a big deal again
Green voters are the biggest retards in any western country.

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>>67437653
Pic is pretty accurate.

Fuck, I hate our politics. Hanson is shaking things up a bit though. Hope she gains more ground.

>>67441446
Third-party voters made up a very small percentage of voters in the election. They're not to blame for the result, and most of them voted for Gary Johnson, not Jill Stein.

The nearly 50 percent that did not vote are responsible for the result.

>>67441446
Our Greens are especially bad.

Here's a Greens senator calling for the Australian government to purposely harm relations with the US for electing Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSaJcF5347Y&ab_channel=Anti-FeminismAustralia

>>67441476
I hate our politics, but because the hilariously small amount of people that boat in here manages to somehow fluster enough faggots that Hanson becomes relevant again.

>>67441286
it's because we have so many trees in tasmania
they all turn out to vote as well, its fucked

>>67441555
Our greens are also awful. Earlier this year they had some big scandals where radical islamists had infiltrated their ranks. One of the two party leaders resigned as a result.

They're dumb as fuck. The thing is that since the green party is so new and their only core idea is "muh environment", they have no ideological core to guide them, like a traditional party does. They're like headless hens.

>>67442101
they're like the garbage collection party here

they take any issue that seems 'overlooked' and rally behind it to draw in fringe voters

I remember reading a huge rant by a former Green who had joined when they were all pro-environment, but left because all they care about at the moment is sexual perversion stuff, they're a joke

>>67442101
Your whole government is one big greens party

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>>67437653
Yes, I am affiliated with a liberal party in Brazil called Novo. Liberal in the correct sense, not the USA retard one.

>>67440401
Liberal is our conservative m8. Though by American standards our conservatives are basically gommies

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>>67441446
>>67441314
We use preferential voting. That means that we can vote for whoever the fuck we want but in the end preference one of the two major parties over another. I.e. vote for greens and preference labor, meaning our vote is never 'wasted'

First past the post makes me literally sick. Can't believe that shit exists.

>>67441213
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH_MBwQhGgA

>>67442327
lmao
golden age chaser, good shit

>>67442327
Beautiful

I miss the Chasers War on Everything :(

>>67440401
The conservatives are the Liberal National Coalition, made up of the Liberal Party and National Party. The Nationals are the really conservative folks, but they are entirely a party of rural Australia (and mainly up north too). The Liberals run from the gauntlet form moderate centrists to old Tones.

I miss the extreme right in Brazil

>>67441598
blame Labor for securitizing the issue during the Rudd/Gillard years. Sure, it wasn't great under Howard, but this issue really kicked up under their stewardship, allowing Tones to turn it into an election issue.

Unless you're talking more generally about Australians being paranoid of a foreign invasion. That shit predates federation

ITT: lelbourne and shitney mixed with a small dose of ironic and non ironic, direct and indirect cultural cringe

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>>67442408
Not for too long my weeaboo friend

>>67441446
our greens were actually pretty realistic and good in the 1990's with people like osmo soininvaara leading them

then came the people born and raised in cities in the largest cities with absolutely no clue about politics and suddenly the greens are delusional retards who still get almost 10-15% of the national vote