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.

  • Grail (capitalised)@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Nobody wants to let Dutton be another Trump

    Trump is dismantling the US government so his billionaire friends can buy it. He’s not building a global populist movement, he’s siezed power and he’s using it for petty, selfish ends. The whole world can see it plainly

    The rise of fascism in the US may have heralded worldwide rises in conservativism for a time, but now that Trump has absolute power, he’s not bothering to hide his intentions. It’s swung back the other way, now the US is making the world less fascist

    Fascism’s win condition is always its own destruction. It’s a death cult. It can’t win worldwide because it promotes selfish leaders who sabotage the movement for personal enrichment

    It’s gonna be okay, everyone

    • Zippygutterslug@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      16 days ago

      They’re not going to stop trying just because they lost an election. Don’t become complacent. Victory has not yet been accomplished, defeat has been postponed.

      Fascism is an existential threat to all democratic countries.

      • g0nz0li0@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        16 days ago

        The Australian Liberal party (note, they’re the Conservative Party) has taken an anti-climate change to the Australian electorate for a decade. Over time they lost power, they lost seats to independents who are aligned to Liberal party except on climate change, and now they’ve been reduced to a puddle due in part to their anti-climate agenda. There’s practically zero chance that the Liberal Party will ever campaign on an anti-Climate Change platform (despite what their corporate overlords want). Which means we may finally have clean air for a debate on policy and politics that’s not being hijacked by bullshit fossil fuel arguments.

        This is progress, for sure.

        • kingofras@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          16 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?