This is major:
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The ALP controls the West Australian parliament 53 to 6. They have unlimited political capital; everything that happens there is 100% ALP. This is who they are.
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The incredibly recent federal election was an absolute landslide victory for candidates whose primary issue was the need for immediate and drastic climate action.
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The idea that gas is an acceptable lower-carbon transition fuel is absolute horseshit, overtly manufactured by the carbon extraction industry.
Bates has won Brisbane.
Just coincidentally, the paper that Maley works for was previously owned by a cartoonishly evil hereditary mining magnate and is now run by an ex- senior minister from the Howard government.
And this is the alternative to Murdoch’s propaganda rags. Oz media is fucked.
ALP economist proxies on social media have been pushing pro-austerity bullshit ever since election day.
Deves was the standard bearer for the Coalition’s campaign of transphobia.
She didn’t win a single booth. Absolutely annihilated.
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The extreme swing against the Coalition here is probably due to selection effects. People in Covid isolation are not a representative sample; they’re disproportionately poorer, less white, etc.
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Note that four people went through the process of calling up the AEC and proving their identity just so that they could deliberately lodge an informal vote.
