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Another Country Rejects Trumpism
Travelling in a fried-out Kombi, on a hippie trail, head full of zombie
mister mix
May 04, 2025
Another one bites the dust:
Labor's Anthony Albanese has defied the so-called "incumbency curse" to be re-elected Australia's prime minister in a landslide.
Official vote counting won't finish for days, but Albanese's centre-left government will dramatically increase its majority after the conservative Liberal-National coalition suffered a thumping defeat nationwide. […]
Coalition leader Peter Dutton, who lost his own seat of 24 years, said he accepted "full responsibility" for his party's loss and apologised to his MPs. […]
It's a remarkable turnaround from the start of the year, when polling put Albanese's popularity at record lows after three years of global economic pain, tense national debate, and growing government dissatisfaction.
The prospect of your country getting Trumped-up definitely serves to focus the mind. I don’t know shit about Australian politics, so I have no further comment on this win.
Switching to another member of the commonwealth, I think we’re all going to be relieved (not) that Pierre Poilievre, who lost his riding in last week’s Canadian election, has found a new riding in the eastern buttcrack of Alberta, Canada’s Texas. This riding has been represented by center or hard-right MPs except for 2 years in 1935. It’s a real safe space for old Pierre, as the most recent election results show.
Also, I hope Alberta voters note (they won’t) that Kurek stepped down in a very toady-ish way:
"Although it will be hard to temporarily step away from this role, in this region I love and have always called home, the mandate given to me is one that clearly states that change is needed," he said in a statement on Friday.
"Offering this seat to our party leader is an important step in that process."
I believe the process that Mr. Kurek is referencing here is the process by which he lights his current political career on fire in exchange for a probably mythical other political career to be named in the future.
I’m late to both of these pieces of news, so consider this an open thread.
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