Peter Dutton concedes he has lost his seat of Dickson
www.abc.net.au
The leader of the Liberal Party, Peter Dutton, concedes he has lost his own seat of Dickson in Queensland. His loss leaves the Coalition without its leader in a defeat that represents a disaster for the party.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29061644

We’ve done it, we got rid of another soulless right wing politician!

Peter Dutton first made his party lose this election and now also lost his own seat much like Pierre Pullover

We’ve still got a government that green-lit new coal power plants in it’s last term, screwed over the Aboriginal community with a poorly run referendum, and still doesn’t give a shit about climate change, but baby steps hey.

  • kingofras@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    9·
    6 days ago

    Not sure. I can see them go full Trump and get aligned with our extreme right wing parties and billionaires and make their own truth social and just double down hard calling it a hoax. All the flooding is just weather engineering with chemtrails, didn’t you know?

    • Ilandar@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      6 days ago

      I can see them go full Trump and get aligned with our extreme right wing parties and billionaires and make their own truth social and just double down hard calling it a hoax.

      They might do that but it would mean political extinction. The Liberals simply cannot form government through appealing to fringes on the right, it just doesn’t work like that in Australia with compulsory voting. At this election there was literally a Trump party running in every seat, funded by a billionaire who was spending insane amounts of money (as he has done in previous cycles). He gained absolutely nothing and actually went backwards.

    • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      7·
      6 days ago

      That seems unlikely based on last night’s outcome.

      Trumpism has a stink on it.

      Dutton was trotting out some Trump rhetoric in the last 2 weeks and Australian voters have issued an emphatic, resounding rejection.

      I expect a reformed liberal party will go back to their roots of fiscal and social conservatism, but do anything to avoid the culture war.

        • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          I’m not sure that’s the right message to take away from what’s happened.

          Rejecting Dutton because he was stoking the culture war from the conservative end, does not mean that the electorate will embrace a leader who stokes the culture war from the progressive end.

          For example, the voice to parliament was part of the culture war, and it failed spectacularly for Labor. They were lucky to recover really.

          That’s not to say the electorate doesn’t want trans rights, but voters do want someone who’s going to address the bread and butter problems they’re facing.

          • Grail (capitalised)@aussie.zoneEnglish
            1·
            6 hours ago

            but voters do want someone who’s going to address the bread and butter problems they’re facing.

            Nah mate, common myth. The Greens had a way better plan for the bread and butter problems - create a government department for building housing, end negative gearing, cap rent increases, put dental in medicare, build free GP clinics, 50c transport fares, wipe all student debt, 800$ back to school payment, free school lunches, make supermarket price gouging illegal, increase wages.

            What voters want, is something comfortable and familiar that makes them feel like they’re opposing Trump, without having to actually think or learn anything. They want the status quo.

            • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              1·
              6 hours ago

              Nonsense. Every party thinks they had “a way better plan”. Voters selected the plan they thought was the best.

              • Grail (capitalised)@aussie.zoneEnglish
                1·
                6 hours ago

                Well, Labour are wrong about thinking voters liked their plan. Voters liked their familiarity. Voters didn’t read Labour’s plan.

                • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                  1·
                  4 hours ago

                  Sorry mate, you seem to be blaming voters for the Greens loss.

                  Every party faces the same paradigm, they need to promulgate their policies, and convince voters they are capable of implementing them.

                  All parties have policies phrased in such a way as to be appealing, but there’s often a great disparity between the policy and the practice.