Despite appointing a shadow minister for government efficiency, Dutton also kept Adelaide Liberal MP James Stevens in his role as the shadow assistant minister for government waste reduction.
He is weak as piss.
He didn’t show up for the Australian of the year awards.
I just don’t understand how any normal person can look at a Dutton Reinhardt Musk coalition and think “Yep. Those folks want what’s best for me.” It’s fucking insane.
Jesus Dutton at least have some self respect …
why would he suddenly start now?
Fair
He’s going to get in. I kept telling myself that Trump will never win. Common sense will surely prevail. Twice!
This time, even in Australia with compulsory voting, he’s going to win. He’s going to lie and obfuscate and shriek like a banshee about some confected emotional issues, over and over again. All backed by mainstream media 🤮
Quite possibly.
OTOH, compulsory voting and preferential voting does blunt a significant tactic of the oligarchical right: using adtech data to identify large numbers of individual voters in key electorates and then microtargeting them with tailored advertising/promoted content to encourage them to turn out (if they’re leaning right-wing) or stay home (if they’re progressive). Telling lefties to write “FREE GAZA” on their ballots instead of voting would have a much higher barrier to uptake than telling them not to vote, if that were legal, and those disgusted with Albo’s centrism can put any number of hard-left protest parties in front of him, as long as they put Labor before the Tories.
