#noalition — Public Fediverse posts

“The Labor Party has, for the first time in its history, become the natural home of educated youth and it has done so while losing its grip on the outer-suburban and regional working-class voters who built it.”
I pulled this quote from #KosSamaras ‘article in #JohnMenadue ‘s Pearls & Irritations ( https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/05/three-australias-new-polling-shows-deepening-divide/)

It’s an interesting piece. It denies #Labor ‘s voting-base roots is a bulwark against #PHON penetration of the Lower House because Labor has vacated it and in so doing has left a vacuum of resentment, anger and protest grounded in the 90s which PHON will harvest in future elections. Labor’s support is growing in the the ‘class’ that the #LNP have left to fend for themselves as the #Noalition lurches further and further to right-wing populism bleeding support all the while.

Kos ends with sobering words:”
For three decades after 1945, Australia experienced something genuinely exceptional: shared, broad-based prosperity. That period is over. We are returning, more or less, to the historical norm. The politics of the next decade will be the politics of who gets blamed for it, and which bloc holds together long enough to find an answer, or not.”

I don’t know about you, but I’m not rejoicing at that pessimistic prognostic.
#AusPol #ChangingPolitics #PostWarEconomics #NeoLiberalism #FinacialMarketsDeregulation #Antifa #NoMoreBillionaires #RedistributiuonOfWealthNow

“The Labor Party has, for the first time in its history, become the natural home of educated youth and it has done so while losing its grip on the outer-suburban and regional working-class voters who built it.”
I pulled this quote from #KosSamaras ‘article in #JohnMenadue ‘s Pearls & Irritations ( https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/05/three-australias-new-polling-shows-deepening-divide/)

It’s an interesting piece. It denies #Labor ‘s voting-base roots is a bulwark against #PHON penetration of the Lower House because Labor has vacated it and in so doing has left a vacuum of resentment, anger and protest grounded in the 90s which PHON will harvest in future elections. Labor’s support is growing in the the ‘class’ that the #LNP have left to fend for themselves as the #Noalition lurches further and further to right-wing populism bleeding support all the while.

Kos ends with sobering words:”
For three decades after 1945, Australia experienced something genuinely exceptional: shared, broad-based prosperity. That period is over. We are returning, more or less, to the historical norm. The politics of the next decade will be the politics of who gets blamed for it, and which bloc holds together long enough to find an answer, or not.”

I don’t know about you, but I’m not rejoicing at that pessimistic prognostic.
#AusPol #ChangingPolitics #PostWarEconomics #NeoLiberalism #FinacialMarketsDeregulation #Antifa #NoMoreBillionaires #RedistributiuonOfWealthNow

@splat
While I’m hopeful Labor will get another run in office, I am not sure of it. You’re right… the #Noalition campaign run by the #Murdoch and #Stokes machines is overwhelming Labor’s modest legislative progress because those #CorporateMedia outlets control the version of ‘news’ Australians get to see/hear/read.

I don’t know what the answer is to overcome the political slush that is drowning the electorate. Education? A slight interest in politics from your average Aussie voter? Less of a focus on what’s in it for me? Some empathy for the growing number of Aussies having a hard time putting food on the table and a roof over their head perhaps? All the usual things I normally think about when ‘thinking’ before ‘voting’.

#AusPol

Dutton under pressure to give MPs ‘anything to sell’ to voters as cost-of-living budget looms https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/20/dutton-under-pressure-to-give-mps-anything-to-sell-to-voters-as-cost-of-living-budget-looms?

How dare the #Noalition comment on subsidies largess from the #Labor govt’s budget which are focussed on alleviating the #cost-of-living-crisis when a decade of $LNP govt saw massive subsidies to #ExtractiveIndustries and tax breaks for the #wealthy. Does the electorate really have that short a memory?

#AusPol

The LNP is nothing but a crowd of ‘disrupters’ hell bent on some alternate reality. They are the bulls in china shops. Demented and without reason. Berserkers.
#gregjericho #LNP #Noalition