As usual I'll vote for left independents, then Labor, then liberal, then the right wing independents.
Don't vote 1 for the major parties guys. Minor parties and independents don't need a majority they just need to prevent either of the big ones from getting one and they'll be forced to negotiate.
The exception here being teal independents who vote with the Libs, as the colour name suggests, they're not for workers. The only difference is that they believe in climate change and are not as socially conservative.
Handy tool: https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/
Plus, you can control where your preferences go anyway if your first choices don't get elected.
Great. Fucking wall to wall dutton bullshit
Am seriously considering just deleting my news apps until it's over. I am in a safe seat. I know how to get local info so I can decide who's a climate/progressive independent and who's a cooker. I don't think I can handle hearing how more gas exploration and firing 40 thousand people is the way forward.
Oh yeah!! Who called it in November 2024, baby?!
If it wasn't for Cyclone Alfred, I reckon my prediction of 12 April (given WA went crazy good for Labor) would've been correct.
I'll be voting for whoever seems the most communist. Which is of course literally none of them. Even on the left-wing ones are just centrists.
The Greens range from centre-left to genuine communists. There aren't many of the latter, but it's more than you'll find in Labor. And even Labor's centrism is closer to communism than the LNP's far right.
I feel the exact opposite tbh, that Labor is closer to the Liberals (not the Coalition as a whole) than the Greens.
That doesn't disagree with what I said, though?
I think saying, essentially "Labor is to the left of the LNP" is kind of a given, and a moot point then. Albo's Labor have been pushing further right than ever before. A dose of minority government would do them well.
Though that does technically make them more communist than the LNP so number ALP above LNP but vote for whoever is more left above ALP.
I’ll be voting for whoever seems the most communist. Which is of course literally none of them. Even on the left-wing ones are just centrists.
Some electorates have Socialist Alliance (explicitly democratic socialists, not to be confused with capitalist social democrats like typical Greens), VicSoc (the major sub-party is SAlt, a "revolutionary" communist organisation despite their electoralism), and some independents and Greens are open communists.
Know your candidates if you want to vote for anti-capitalists. If you're unlucky you might have to settle for the Senate only, but you should still push as "left" as possible in the House of Reps even if they aren't anti-capitalist.
*Albanian. And it's European news. /s
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