No, Australia does not use first past the post. We use preferential voting for the house and proportional for the senate.

Labor (ALP) is centrist.

The Liberal-National Coalition (LNP) is the largest conservative group and was centre-right, although drifted more to the right after some of the more moderate liberals lost their seats to centrist independents in 2022.

Then there are a lot of smaller parties and independents that range from far left to far right.

It is likely that the ALP won this election due to (1) the LNP running an absolute shambles of a campaign (repeated back flips and changes, lack of details, etc.) and (2) the global backlash to Trumpian politics (which had a huge influence on Canada's recent election).

the Trump administration has shown signs of enthusiasm for a pronatalist agenda. DOGE head Elon Musk, a father of 14, posts regularly on social media about the need for Americans to have more babies; he has also promoted NatalCon on X. Vice President JD Vance has proposed the idea of a weighted voting system, in which the votes cast by parents would be valued more highly than those by the childless. US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy (a father of nine) signed a memo recommending that his department prioritize “communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average.”

Got to provide a continuous supply of children for the labour camps.

I hope my fellow Aussies say no, they align with Australia's interests.

This really shouldn't surprise anyone at this point.

I wonder how many of his supporters are about to find out that they're included in this.

Trump doesn't care. He hates the military: https://lemmy.world/post/8041636

What an idiot. Or is he suggesting that Harris will trigger a global thermonuclear war and so China, India or the other space powers will never be capable of interplanetary flight?

Isn't this old news? I recall Trump not only throwing out the handbook, but disbanding the pandemic response team, too...

About the only thing Google is right to be concerned about here is the timeline to enforce these changes - requiring them to be implemented within a couple of weeks does indeed pose a risk that something will go wrong or be missed (causing vulnerabilities). Other than that, I look forward to Google being forced to allow competition.

Right.... cue follow-up posts when the city fines them for operating a business without a licence.

As someone who has inherited code like that, I would like to strangle the first programmer in the comic.

I think this person may be mentally ill.

I was already dubious about upgrading from 10 to 11 and this is final straw. I will have to look at Linux options and see if my Windows-only programs will run effectively under WINE.