The big gap in the Australian political spectrum is a nationalist and populist party of the left. There is a lot of anger and dismay in the community about the Albanese govt’s capitulation to the US military industrial complex. The ALP is hopelessly compromised.
Australia needs a left-libertarian party. There might be some people who aren't happy with the continued erosion of human rights at home, social media laws for example. Greens car more about destroying the salmon industry than they do about people.
Have not seen a post from you in a while Mr D, so happy to see you again 👍
Australia needs a Jeremy Corbyn.
I disagree, it needs another Paul Keating
Wrong. It doesn’t need another right wing neoliberal. It has enough of them already. It needs another Whitlam.
Yep Gough who admitted he knew nothing about economics & handed the Treasury keys to Jim Cairns with Bill Hayden having to work overtime to undo the mess. He succeeded to the point that Phil Lynch changed nothing only for Howard to fuck it all up. Rusted-ons like KRudd/Gillard & Swan knew nothing!
Perhaps understand our long-term economic history in order to see things in context (rather than rusted-on romantic tropes & slogans)… www.penguin.com.au/books/austra...
It is such a shame that the #ALP are willing to sacrifice the massive opportunity WE gave them this past election, to put things right. This will come back to bite them. #auspol @australianlabor.bsky.social
Even the #ALP is not so deluded to think their huge majority is a result of votes FOR them; voters chose the least worst options to keep Dutton & LNP out of government
Agreed - but it's not just #AUKUS. There's also Labor's behaviour (as opposed to its rhetoric) on the environment, health, education, social welfare ... #auspol
Why don't the Greens fill this gap?
Because they're not nationalist, nor populist.
I challenge you to show a Greens policy that isn't supported by over half of the population
They have popular policies until you see the details, then you see its all a show.
Which one do you think fits that?
(It would be great if...)
Honest, I can't think of one Greens policy that has all the details sorted. They have honourable plans, but there are usually reason such things haven't already been done, and those reasons get glossed over by supporters. Greens did more critical analysis and presented bulletproof policies.
I mean, these look pretty straightforward with details? greens.org.au/platform
So to take a simple example, "50c public transport fares", if a government was going to implement that, they need to be able to answer all the (stupid) questions. re 'user pays', cost-to-taxpayers, are taxes going to rise, what about the bush. If they don't answr, they get destroyed by media-cycle
The detail is sorted, user pays 50c, the taxpayer already subsidizes around 75% of public transport costs anyway, "taxes rising" and the rest is irrelevant (and also in other policies). My point is about popularity, popular in QLD, surely the worst place for them? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
That example shows its worked in QLD, they haven't revoked it, but that's not always the case, and the more complex the policy is, the easier it becomes to criticise it. Look at renewable energy, they complain about appearance even. Julia Gillard and Bill Shorten both had some great policies.
Its fine for us to say its irrelevant, but the conservatives are going to disagree for pure political reasons, and it matters how effective they can be in making people agpngry about it, because that's how the stacks on starts. There are a lot Leaders who have been brought down by good policies.
They get 12%, never more.
I'm not disagreeing with you there, but "populist" literally means popular, for some reason their policies that poll pretty well they have trouble communicating with the public for some reason
Has the media ever put a positive spin on anything the Greens have ever proposed? It's invariably the opposite. So it's not surprising the Greens haven't been able to break through that 12% ceiling on their vote.
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