Labor has stormed to victory in the federal election and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will lead a majority government following a disastrous night for the Coalition and Peter Dutton.
At 8.24pm, less than half an hour after the final polls closed in Western Australia, 9News projected Labor had won the election.
I can finally have a couple months off from stressing over our politics because we reelected the competent side.
It’s been pretty nice. I’ve been catching up on new (to me) music releases.
Culture!?! I forgot that was a thing I could do with my time.
This and the GTA6 release date announcement today is a good news day.
Ah yes because the ALP have been so competent the last 3 years, haven’t they? No, they’ve been a complete shitshow.
The LNP are a shitshow too, and Dutton deserved to be nowhere near being prime minister, but let’s not sugar coat it - Labor have run the country into the ground. Can you name a single thing that has improved over the last 3 years?
Isn’t declining culture war ideology a positive thing? Australia has a strong sense of community and identity politics destroys that
Australia has a strong sense of community? That’s being eroded every day. Our sense of community is being taken away in favour of “multiculturalism” and making sure every immigrants cultures and religions are respected, at the expense of our own identity and community.
Why would you prefer LNP when they were the ones who introduced more immigration?
Neither the ALP or LNP are prepared to do what needs to be done in terms of immigration. I didn’t vote for the ALP or LNP.
If your preferred party didn’t get any seats, you voted for the ALP or LNP.
I know how voting works. What point were you trying to make?
Because you said you didn’t vote for either, but all votes typically end up going to one or the other.
But what do you want done about immigration? Is it only immigration?
Min wage went, billions in affordable housing investments, GP visits being bulk billed all seem pretty nice. Theres plenty more but I don’t remember them off the top of my head.
Min wage going up a tiny bit is negated by the 30%+ inflation from the current governments term.
What “affordable housing”? The one where not a single house was actually built?
https://www.news.com.au/national/prime-minister-anthony-albanese-accused-of-massive-fail-on-housing/news-story/c7799fbc997d11a0892ca1078158a194
GP visits being bulk billed? Almost every GP visit now costs you money out of pocket, even the ones that bulk bill.
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A few things wrong here:
I’m not blaming it on one person. I’m blaming the entire Labor government and their policies, along with the Greens and Teals who they make deals with to get things to pass.
The article I gave reports on what happened in the senate estimates hearings. Direct quotes are in there. You can feel free to look up what they said in your news source of choice - I simply gave news.com.au because it is the biggest Australian news site and is an aggregator of news from all different sources, left and right wing. Here’s one reporting on the same thing but on a “socialist” left wing site: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/12/kenh-m12.html Same quotes, same facts and figures.
I don’t know if you’re a bot, an idiot or just disingenuous but your argument is trash.
Rule 5 says hi.
You need to better understand how to separate what is being reported from who is reporting it. When it’s direct quotes and verbatim responses with context provided, the site reporting it is basically irrelevant. A quick google of the information in the source I provided would show you that it is all factually correct and verifiable.
As for your personal attacks, grow up. I presented facts and sources to back them up. You dismissed them because you don’t like what they said, even though what the article presents is factual.
I’m gonna keep enjoying having a party in power that wants better for people and actually has the ability to do it as opposed to the liberal party who doesn’t give two shits about anyone who isn’t a mining boss.
I’m gonna enjoy not having Medicare cut, not having education cut, not having fire management cut, not having NDIS cut and basically everything else the liberal party does.
I’m dismissing your arguments because you either have no idea about what the parties do, or you are actively being misleading. I don’t actually care which one, but it’s objective fact that one of the major parties tends to work to help people and actually run the country and the other one has the economic management skills of a dead, half rotten mouse while generally making life worse for almost everyone.
Unfortunately for you you’re also going to have to enjoy having a party in power that wants higher inflation, ever increasing house prices, ever increasing power bills, and ever increasing cost of living, because that’s what their policies create.
Don’t get me wrong - I didn’t want the LNP to win either. The LNP are just Labor-lite, with an absolute spud for a leader (at least that will be changed now!). I’ve literally never voted for the LNP. Didn’t this time either.
The NDIS is a great thing, but is horribly mismanaged and absolutely fraud central. What is going on with the NDIS is not sustainable and needs to be investigated and brought back under control. Again - huge fan of the idea of the NDIS, not a fan of how it has played out.
Medicare was never going to be cut btw.
This is far from “objective fact” though lol. Again - cost of living has been out of control under labor because of labors policies. The housing crisis is in large part due to Labors insane record levels of immigration. The much vaunted “economic management skills” haven’t been seen for years at this point. When do they rear their head? The pattern has always been the LNP save money, the ALP spend it, rinse and repeat. Now they’re both just trying to outspend each other.
I can say the same thinga bout your arguments, if you actually presented any that is.
Do you admit that the “affordable housing investment” was all a lie that resulted in absolutely nothing? Or are you still going to blame “fox news sources”?
Have our power bills gotten $275 cheaper from what they were in 2022 like promised by Albo? Or have they pretty much tripled since then?
Liberal party saving money? Are you delusional? I was going to ignore you entirely but my god that’s stupid. The government debt more than doubled under the liberal party, because they spend the most on shit that helps their own pockets and nothing else.
The Labor party however turned back to back surpluses which the liberal government can’t even get 1 of, at least in the last lot of repeated liberal governments.
The liberal party removed the debt ceiling for fucks sake, what has gone wrong in your life where you think one of the worst economic managers possible is better than Labor? Don’t answer that, I don’t actually care.
sure would be nice if there weren’t 2 major conflicts, recovering from the pandemic, and numerous other things that cause cost of living crisis and other things that every other country on earth is also going through
what’s that i hear? is that the sound of the IMF having ranked us 2nd best in the world for budget balance…
shit mate, maybe you’re repeating half truths and FUD from sky news
A trillion dollars of debt we’ll be at soon. Our power bills have tripled thanks to the ALPs energy plan. Our “100% renewables” energy plan is going to cost us another trillion or so, probably more. Our housing crisis has been fuelled by mass immigration at levels never seen before - all under labor’s watch.
Labor have been a shitshow for the country in every way. The only good thing they’ve done is kept Dutton out.