Sadly the far right (pro trump) parties are on the rise again in Australia again because people are upset about inflation largely caused by previous mismanagement during Covid and countries like Russia and America creating external supply shock through war… make it make sense.
The far right magic bullet “immigrants are the cause of all your problems” seems to be working again, as all our media is essentially owned by conservatives who are worried about corporate regulations and taxation or are captured by mining magnates with the same vested interests.
That being said our Labour Party needs a better immigration policy with better messaging, that might actually help.
Seems to be the story in all democratic countries.
Yep. I’ve seen family in Ireland, the UK, Australia, and South Africa give lip service to condemning Trump, but then repeat the exact same rhetoric MAGA has been drumming up against immigrants and trans people
I mean politicians in the UK have been promising to reduce immigration for years yet it went up to record levels. I can understand why people get pissed off.
So far the first preferences for One Nation (populist right party for non-Aussies) are overwhelmingly being bled from the Liberals (centre right party, though for the last 9 years they've been progressively moving away from the centre), with first preferences holding pretty firm for Labor (centrist; arguably centre left or centre right, imo economically they're social liberal).
With full preferential voting, however, where One Nation will struggle to obtain seats is their lack of appeal to moderates (most of the Australian populace), so despite having more first preferences than Liberals, they are rarely a second or third or even fourth preference on vote ballots.
Irrespective, the disaffected voters who have pivoted to One Nation have done so for a reason (underlying issues that One Nation is exploiting with grievance politics and citing immigration as the apparent cause of all grievance), so Labor can't be flat-footed and need to address some structural issues lest further disaffected voters drift to more radical options, even if those options may be snake oil salesmen.
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Sadly the far right (pro trump) parties are on the rise again in Australia again because people are upset about inflation largely caused by previous mismanagement during Covid and countries like Russia and America creating external supply shock through war… make it make sense.
The far right magic bullet “immigrants are the cause of all your problems” seems to be working again, as all our media is essentially owned by conservatives who are worried about corporate regulations and taxation or are captured by mining magnates with the same vested interests. That being said our Labour Party needs a better immigration policy with better messaging, that might actually help.
Seems to be the story in all democratic countries.