Anthony Albanese says improving voters’ lives best way to fight rightwing populism and Pauline Hanson

5 months ago by Valuy to c/australia

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arbilp3 17 points 5 months ago

Some positives are being achieved but he is not getting the message through in a way that people see him as Labor leader in a positive way.

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thatKamGuy 22 points 5 months ago

Once you learn that the Liberal Party was founded explicitly to oppose the Labor Party in Australia, and they (LNP) are heavily supported by our Billionaire media barons - it’s not hard to understand why Labor achievements are rarely widely publicised.

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Gorgritch_umie_killa 7 points 5 months ago

People don't blame the media enough.

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fizzle 17 points 5 months ago

I voted for him but will probably vote further left in future.

This term Albo has moved Labor further right, trying to occupy the centre.

They're far too supportive of israel.

They won't say anything negative about Trump like: " he's made catastrophic strategic error that everyone roll bear the consequences for.

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AllNewTypeFace 13 points 5 months ago

Thanks to the US Supreme Court, Trump rules the US like a sovereign monarch, and one hastily chosen word about him could cause him to inflict real economic pain on Australia through tariffs or other measures. With the Australian press being what it is, the voters would squarely blame Albo for job losses or inflation and sweep a Trumpist hard-right government into power at the next election. It would be far more prudent to flatter him as much as necessary, whilst channeling your disgust into quietly reducing dependency on the US by developing closer relationships with other “middle powers”.

As Will Rogers put it, diplomacy is the art of saying “nice doggie” until you can find a rock.

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fizzle 9 points 5 months ago

Firstly, I acknowledge that you're correct of course. Thankfully I'm not the PM and just some guy shooting the shit on social media so I can engage in this kind of reckless discourse. I'm frustrated and angry at the amount of harm people all over the world are enduring.

I don't want to diminish the suffering of the epstein victims, because they surely deserve to be acknowledged and they deserve justice, but sadly their suffering is infinitessimal to that caused by the current crisis. Billions of people are going to endure severe financial hardship. The fertilizer shortage has a good likelihood of causing famine. It's exasperating to point out the obvious things that everyone already knows and yet no one is willing to lay them at the feet of the buffoon that caused them.

My point is, that surely there's a point at which the repercussions we might face become worth it, just to be on the right side of history and refuse to enable Trump any longer.

Perhaps it's fanciful thinking but I'd like to see the middle powers take a combined stand on this.

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G_M0N3Y_2503 1 point 5 months ago

Everyone votes and everyone votes in their perceived best interests. Which could look like anything across the political spectrum. For those of us who can agree with your sentiment, we need to recognise that there are those that perceive or recognise correctly these repercussions as insurmountable. So a combined stance is just yielding ground to whoever isn't a part of that stance. That said given how much ground Labor took last election, I don't think they would be yielding that much. But who knows, maybe most people were only 51/49 for Labor.

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shrodes 2 points 5 months ago

I voted for him but will probably vote further left in future.

I think this is a great result personally, thanks Albo! Labor pushing voters further left can only be a good thing (though I do wish they themselves would do more good while in power)

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fizzle 4 points 5 months ago

So, labor hasn't pushed me to the left, they have moved to the centre. They're no longer progressive.

Only an idiot would think this is good for the left.

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baseball2020 7 points 5 months ago

I guess one of the problems I can see with being the incumbent, is that the unknown populist opposition can just promise anything, even if they have no intention of doing it.

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markko 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah we have all the evidence of that happening in Burgerland, yet people here still want a taste of it in Aus for some reason

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rosco385 7 points 5 months ago

I have a close friend whose 16 year old son has severe ASD. He receieved a letter that his son's NDIS package is being cut by 48% on the same day Albanese was whining in the media about how it would be wrong to increase taxes on LNG exports becuase our customers would be upset.

The current Labor government have done some good work, like the rejigging of the stage 3 tax cuts and improvements to worker rights. But they side with big business over regular Australians a majority of the time.

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nonentity 7 points 5 months ago

It would be an excellent start if he and his government would actually start doing just that.

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minimumchips 1 point 5 months ago

We will implement polices to improve housing affordability while the housing minister assures the public that house prices will grow "sustainably". Then the public will see us as helping those in need while protecting those with wealth. Win win.

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finallymadeanaccount 3 points 5 months ago

Cool. When's he gonna start? Because this lifelong Labor voter is starting to look elsewhere for next election due to how disappointing he's been.

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G_M0N3Y_2503 4 points 5 months ago

It's a very slow roll, but it is a roll, most of the good policies probably won't pay off for years. Turning property developers to make their money on supply instead of hording houses as assets should help eventually. And future made in Australia poised ready to fill the demand as fossil fuels slowly die out. Doubt there is much short term though with all this effort put into fuel supplies and only treading water as is.

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HubertManne 3 points 5 months ago

the main thing is you need a safety net that equaly applies to everyone. one thing I noticed in the us is you have things for military and older people and police and fire fighters and this just leads to this gotta keep the stuff for me and not for thee. we need a decent baseline for everyone and then people can save or invest or learn or work to get better. disabled vets/police/etc should not get better than disable anyone and healthcare should not have an age requirement.

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Bloomcole 3 points 5 months ago

Politicians say a lot

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king_comrade 2 points 5 months ago

Wild how he acknowledges what he has to do while simultaneously refusing to do it.

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Salvo 1 point 5 months ago

Also reducing the amount of lobbying money that bad actors have for funding the populists would be a step in the right direction.