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Australia, where "Left" is Centre

I think I don't know myself now.

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Tigers! said:
Patooka said:
Wow, apparently I'm not as left wing as I thought.

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The joys of such surveys. The Left wingers think they are not left enough and the right aren't right enough. And those of us in the centre wonder what the fuss is all about.
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your VoteCompass result sits pretty much in the middle of the ALP and the LNP, which is certainly the public perception of the centre.

IIRC you also identify as a conservative? So you identify as a centrist and a conservative? Or maybe you locate yourself as centre-right? Your position on the graph is pretty much centre-right.
 
I almost convinced someone at work yesterday that, in order to help prevent postal voters from missing out, there was a link you could click on the AEC website to have a democracy sausage sent out to you via Uber Eats.
 
bilby said:
I almost convinced someone at work yesterday that, in order to help prevent postal voters from missing out, there was a link you could click on the AEC website to have a democracy sausage sent out to you via Uber Eats.
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Evil.

I love it. I'm also not against that. I mean compared to a polly's pension, the pension their spouses get and a whole bunch of other bloviated expenses, this strategy would not even register (pun very much intended).
 
Fun fact! Scott Morrison is the first Australian Prime Minister to serve a full term in 15 years! At least he accomplished something, I suppose.
 
At least five "moderate" LNP MPs have been voted out of office: Wilson, Frydenberg, Sharma, Zimmermann and Falinski. (Not sure which faction Hammond, Roberts and Simmonds aligned with.) Most have been replaced by "teal" independents who appear to align pretty closely with what those moderate liberals claimed to stand for; the rest have lost to Greens and didn't face a teal.

The problem those liberal moderates (sorry, "modern liberals") faced is that they said one thing but did another: most notably, they said they stood for action on climate but voted against it.

I think this is a demonstration that the Liberal Party is, for a long time now, a right wing, not centre-right, party. The presence of these moderates in the party, particularly Turnbull's stint as an Prime Minister, has allowed them to maintain this pretence that they are a "broad church" of social liberals and conservatives.
 
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