If you’re relatively insular, like me, you probably had no idea that there was an election about to happen in Australia. BTW, don’t knock relative insularity. While you get information a lot slower, you miss most of the misleading information that “breaks” when something actually happens. Those “pseudo-events” that Mark Levin keeps going on about are quieter, and in the background, making them easier to look past them to see what’s really going on.
In any event, there was an election in Australia on May 18th. For three years, all of media polling and punditry had predicted a win for the Labor Party of Australia (the left). It was only a matter of how sweeping their victory was going to be. Well, Labor lost, and it’s only a matter of how humiliating their defeat is going to be. They’re still counting the votes over there, but it looks like the incumbent coalition government (called the Coalition in the Australian press) is going to gain one seat in their parliament. Which means not only did the left not sweep to victory, they’re at least slightly more rejected than they were in the previous election. It seems to be following a pattern that started with the Brexit vote of 2016. This full-court press of prediction and punditry that seems less reflective of the will of the electorate, and is being ignored by a growing number of voters.
One more thing before you click the news article; in case you didn’t know, the major conservat-ish party in Australia is actually called the Liberal Party. Don’t ask me why it’s called that; the toilets just flush backwards over there. But if you see “Liberals gaining” or “Liberals leading” in the Australian press, don’t confuse them with the hard left Labor Party.
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Just so our overseas colleagues know, the Liberal party of Australia was formed in 1945 when “liberal” still meant maximum individual freedom, or at least it did in Australia.
It probably helps to think “Classical Liberal” rather than the Socialism-Lite (and sometimes not so light) that the term “liberal” now implies in the USA.
Good for them. I knew there was a vote coming up. I also knew that the Hard Core Feminists have completely steam rolled damn near the entire government over there. I hope this is a sign that better times are ahead for civil rights.