Australia General Discussion 4.0: It ain’t easy under Albanese

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NSW politics relative to Australian federal politics is like the end season of a long-running sitcom - the same familiar characters, but every single trait is exaggerated into caricature.

The LNP has held Federal power for nineteen of the past twenty five years. The left’s offering of a mix of old time socialism and new time identity politics is voter repellent.

I think this is a fairly generic criticism that a right winger might diagnose with any left wing party. (E.g. if I said "Queensland LNP have only won one election in the since the fall of Joh in the 80's, clear proof that conservative dogma fails) I think the specific oddities of the Australian Labor Party is a far more interactive line of inquiry tbh.

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In all fairness, if you want a laugh, look who is currently President of Socialist International.

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Fun fact: the 1999 election was the last in NSW to provide a Premier that would last a full term (Bob Carr). After him, we have Iemma, Rees, Keneally, Barry, Baird and Gladys, none of which never lasted a full mandate of their own.

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Anthony Albanese is the Prime Minister-elect of Australia. he and his cabinet are due to be sworn in Monday.

As in Mon. the 23rd? Didn't Kevin '07 have to wait 'til 9 days after, the following Mon., & with more seats than Albo too?

they want the new leadership to attend the Quad meeting with Modi, Biden and Kishida

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And Albanese is from the Left, while Shorten is Right. Do these factions even matter beyond "this is what i vaguely believed when i joined the party in uni or from the union, now it's just my mates"?

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Has he tried saying that his sister in law found it funny?

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The cycle of life for Australian independent politicians

Get elected on a free people pleasing policies, often because the main parties decided to choose a plank of wood
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Confuse your local celebrity/rentagob status as "beloved cult leader"

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"Hey people love me, I can take my brand national!!!"

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Create vanity party named after yourself

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Shock poll, as your shell party with no policies randomly is competitive with the majors in your state!

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First press scrutiny in your life outside of friendly client local media

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RIP

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https://twitter.com/7NewsSydney/status/1762616093208924302

Didn't an Mp in the 80s randomly come to parliament drrssed as a chicken and never explained why?