>SYDNEY — Australia’s center-left government convincingly won reelection Saturday in a remarkable turnaround driven partly by anger over President Donald Trump’s disruptive trade war and its effect on the close U.S. military ally.
<Anthony Albanese became the first Australian prime minister to win a second term in more than two decades as his Labor Party dramatically increased its parliamentary majority. It marked a stunning comeback for the progressive leader, who trailed in the polls two months ago.
84 posts and 15 image replies omitted.>>2267875>>2268024Yep, technically an alliance (started with both Socialist Alternative and Socialist Alliance as the major parties with Sallies soon leaving:
https://socialist-alliance.org/our-common-cause/2020-05-14/socialist-alliance-withdraws-victorian-socialists ) but might as well just be SAlt electoralist party.
>who are Communist Alternative (CAlt)?A split from Solidarity (both are officially Cliffite orgs but act so differently you'd never know), SAlt are likely the largest socialist org in Australia, mostly students who sell newspapers and act like shitty Mormons for a few years and then burn out. Everyone knows a horror story from them, in fact a significant amount of my org are former SAlt members who left.
https://umsu.unimelb.edu.au/news/article/7797/Why-the-Left-Sucks-An-Inquiry-into-Campuss-Most-Hated-Political-Group/They waste time trying to call people who already told them to fuck off because they didn't realise that environmental petition was just a tactic to get their phone number. Someone I know blocked their number so they got another member to start calling instead. One of their recruits asked my Palestinian friend who has family in Palestine, at a Palestine protest, if they were of the conflict, and when they said yes, just continued reciting the script anyway. Their branch at Sydney University got their members to strategically vote the Young Liberals (right-wing party) into a seat rather than give it to any of the anti-capitalist orgs. They're basically all the shit stereotypes of privileged White university liberals, it's actually impressive.
Caveat: many of them are actually decent people, this critique is nothing personal, but once they're around other members and have to toe the party line to avoid being ostracized, they're fucking horrible.
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>>2269381dont waste your time scanning this
Australia is irrelevant. It's not even a real country, just a province of England
One of Socialist Alliance's Senate candidates was interviewed by Mr Sikkant on TikTok
How do you think we went? Did he make a good impression
https://www.tiktok.com/@mrsikkant>>2271082>How do you think we went?>weDo I look like an awkward retiree succdem to you?
i work at computers and have better posture, appearance shouldn't matter but it does in the electoral popularity contest>>2271086I will say good on them for immediately explaining that electoralism isn't the main route for change.
Yeah a media training session could do some good. Like at 2:00, they seem to be treating this like a personal argument, where "No." is a valid response to the interviewer's lay-up "But didn't Elon do all this stuff?", the interviewer then has to kind-of-awkwardly draw the reasoning out of the guy with follow-up questions and say "I'm not on his side" to try and make him realise it's a prompt, not an argument.
The interviewer is BEGGING for a critique of the "risk" argument for minutes.
oh god i just got to 5:00 and fucking hell no candidate should be saying that in response to a simple question about socialist society. Like yeah, you should be ready to summarise Marxist theory in a couple of sentences, it doesn't have to be rigorous but you have to give
something, it took them a bit too long to find that it's a society where we're driven by [material] needs rather than profit. They kinda managed the innovation rebuttal.
Obviously it's easier for me here with a keyboard instead of a real-time interview, but my comrade in socialism, you're a fucking politician.
>>2273583most of a capitalist's "assets" are their means of production. how do you "tax" that out of people? its a stupid argument because it shows economic illiteracy. its on the same level as saying that printing billions of dollars creates billions of dollars of more value. what objective factor does erasing the income of elon musk have except that elon simply has less money?
>>2273588are you a skinnyfat yourself, perchance?
>>2271082Unprofessional and sloppy. Not an outright embrrassment but a complete miss of an opportunity.
You have an audience of potentially thousands of people and you criticise billionaires by calling them "cunts", and then give a wishy washy answer about your platform being about yelling and screaming for social justice. You could have talked about the multiple economic crises in this country, how billionaires exploit other people's labor, gain exclusive government contracts, or use their capital to control media or outright manipulate elections. You can point out how the Australian ruling class is now complicit in multiple war crimes and ethnic cleansing.
The positive case for socialism was weak as well. Yes, obviously a society based on human need, not for profit. But point out why it is neccessary, why it is democratic, why it is historically vital, how capitalism constantly creates crises, war, destruction and the top of society comes away richer than ever before?
SAllies are dying anyway, so no big loss.
>>2305139Which state, ya derro
>>2311756anarchojak for not bashing Channel 9 reporters
Image from the Legal Observers NSW instagram.
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/nsw-police-assault-pro-palestine-protesters-arrest-five-sec-plating-picket
>It was the fourth picket of the facility, organised by the Weapons Out of the West (WoW) group, which campaigns against weapons' production in Western Sydney.
>Police had already arrested one legal observer before the picket started. The WoW spokesperson said on June 27 they were attempting to negotiate with police when one officer became “agitated” and the violence started.
>Videos posted on social media show police dragging protesters across the ground, holding people by the neck and slamming them into fences.
>A young woman [Sarah Thomas] was hospitalised with injuries to her eye and face “after being battered by two officers with no apparent cause”. She now needs surgery. One officer reportedly said as she protested the violence: “That’s on you”. WoW said that medics were “barred by police from providing first aid”.
>Another protester was “illegally strip-searched in front of the crowd in the cold with no privacy”, the spokesperson said. They were subsequently arrested, despite nothing incriminating being found.
>Rising Tide activist Zack Schofield, who was arrested, said NSW Premier Chris Minns “can’t arrest his way out of the people objecting to genocide and the complicity of Australia in this”. He added: “The excessive force used by police was brutal and will be put into question.”
>Martime Union of Australia Sydney branch organiser Shane Reside, who was also arrested, said: “After witnessing the brutal assault committed against another member of the community, I called out the police for their actions and on that basis they then targeted me and I was arrested.”>>2360031re: Terrorgram plot, it happened last year:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-27/terrorgram-linked-to-alleged-plot-to-kill-labor-politician/105469638Kid didn't meet dress code lol
>Footage from the livestream shows Patten fitting himself with a helmet, surgical facemask and ballistic vest while wearing army khaki in a bathroom at Newcastle's Civic Theatre and showing off his assembled gear neatly laid out on blanket.>He then crossed a road and entered Newcastle MP Tim Crakanthorp's office.>He then quickly exited the office and walked towards the museum in Workshop Way where a staff member can be heard telling him 'you can't be dressed like that', before raising the alarm.>The employee raised the alarm after Patten entered the building, telling him: 'You need to leave (because you're) dressed like that sir.'>'Get outside for us please.'>The livestream then shows the man leaving the museum and placing his knife and bag down on a seat before the doors are locked behind him.>The man behind the camera doesn't say a single word during the entire seven-minute video as he leisurely walks between the locations.>After the attack failed, the 19-year-old allegedly uploaded a 205-page manifesto that cited the 2019 Christchurch shooter as inspiration. >>2254205> and a reduction in immigration nah dutton dropped that in january, a bit after he dropped it he even got caught by a tv crew telling an asian immigration agent "vote for me, i'm your guy" which got shown across the country on the 6pm news lmao.
him flip flopping on immigration THREE times and him wanting to demolish canberra and work from home were literally gods gift to the labor party
>>2365614>"vote for me, i'm your guy"nvm from what i could find i just mis-remembered it, what he actually did was hint that he was bringing back the fraud ridden golden visa scheme
In retrospect Dutton had to make a horrendous amount of fuckups to lose, to the point you'd think he deliberately torpedoed his own campaign
>getting rid of his 100k immigration target while he was in the lead because he thought he was gonna beat labor so easily he didn't need to even pretend to be anti-immigrant anymore>then having the immigration agent faux pas making him look even more pro-immigrant than labor >waiting until 3 days before the election to flip flop back on his immigration target to try and salvage his election chances once it looked like he was gonna lose>massively unpopular public service cuts that he had to backflip on>massively unpopular return to the office policy that he had to backflip on >hanging around former greens senator schizo "Blaktivist" Lidia Thorpe way to much (i think he even made her the deputy leader or some shit)>the shadow DOGE stuff>the spectre of the massively expensive nuclear power plant they couldn't name the cost of so labor got to run wild with itthis all in addition to the 11th hour trump tarrifs bailing labor out like they did for the Liberals in Canada
>Lidia running around with a MAGA hat on during the trump tarrifswhen he was running in January on the promise of reducing immigration and getting rid of the acknowledgment of country daily prayers everyone hates, it was looking like he was gonna make the biggest party comeback ever, so much so he must have felt comfortable enough to put some real stinker policies up, its like he was trying to see just how much shit he could get away with and still get elected, but like Icarus he flew too close to the sun and came tumbling back down.
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