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Australian, Vietnamese, gay af and permanently playing irl Disco Elysium in real time.
That's my election analysis. I hope you found this enjoyable. And for the record, I did vote VS @purplepingers.bsky.social and Kath Larkin, congrats to those two for a very good fight.
May 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
But I don't want to be a pessimist. With this new Parliament, Labor can no longer make any fucking excuse to do anything.

If they want incremental changes, they have the independents to back them up.

They have the Greens for the big changes.

No more excuses. They are accountable from now on.
May 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Here's what I imagine what "Building Australia's Future" looks like.

No reform to housing.

No changes to the tax system that overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy.

No foreign policy changes regarding the genocide in Gaza.

Income inequality running rampant.

Can't wait for all of this.
May 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Given that Labor and their fucking simps have made it pretty clear that leftists are their enemies, I assume that they are going to continue the same centrist politics that have plagued this country for the last 3 years.
May 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
That's my election analysis. But what do I think is going to happen in the next 3 years? Well nothing really.
May 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Like why are you just starting to advocate for dental in medicate and not during the last Parliamentary session. People look at them and call them hypocrites, not surprise at all.

And also pick either "make Labor progressive" or "keep Dutton out". You can't have both.
May 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
I hope the Greens come up with a better electoral strategy next time around because they didn't really have a plan at all.
May 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
This left it a battle between ALP and the Greens in every inner city electorates. And like every moderate division, the Greens will lose before Labor.
May 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The Greens achieve their best electoral results when the Liberals and ALP are competitive, but as the preferences comes in, they have no one to back them up.
May 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
I don't agree with the assessment that they were too left-wing at all, like I see Labor simps on Twitter or the media is suggesting. They hold at ~11%-12% of national votes, that is not a repudiation in my opinion. And they still keep most of their Senate seats.
May 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The Greens (at the time of writing) are expected to lose all their seats. They were in a position where they were attacked viciously from all sides of the political aisle.

Labor fucking despised them, no way would Liberals nor Independents were going to vote for them. They stood alone.
May 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
So people chose the one option that actually give them some representation, and that was Labor. I genuinely think that without the incompetency of the Liberals, Labor would have faced a horrible election, but they got lucky, hence their victory.
May 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Labor won solely because the moderate votes have nowhere to go. Voting independents seems like a big-shot to achieve anything given the uncertainties facing this country from Trump's America, the global economy and the housing crisis right now.
May 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Let's move to Labor now, and I got to hand it to them, they ran a very successful campaign... for no good reasons at all. Every media commentators have said that their focus on cost-of-living was why people voted for them, but I believe there's another way to view it.
May 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
And it doesn't help that Peter Dutton is the least likeable politicians I have ever seen.

Uncharismatic, unfunny, looks like an egg or Voldemort.

Could they not get any other average white dude to run?
May 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Do I even need to explain why this strategy is just plain bad? People who were already TOPs or ON were going to vote for Liberals anyway, why would you isolate yourself from the moderate voters? What would you get out of it?
May 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Firing 41,000 public servants? Just in Canberra, apparently. Who's going to believe them.

Nuclear power plant? How? When? Cost?. No plan. Nothing.

Housing? "...".

But you know what we all really care about, "woke ideologies in the classroom".

Single word here: "idiots".
May 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The way I see it is that they thought because of their victory over the Voice, they could just go far-right on every issue. But when Trump got elected and ruin the world and everyone realise just how shit Trump is, they begin backtracking on fucking everything!
May 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Let's start this out to the bat. The Liberals ran probably one of the worst campaigns ever. I am still in shock as to just how much they fucked it up.
May 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM