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Australian Politics

If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.

David Frum

I love a timid country
A land of scare campaigns
Where mindless bogan slogans
Just overtake our brains
The stunted, short horizons
Of those who will not see
Who, presented with alternatives
Think only: me, me, me.

[apologies to Dorothea Mackellar]

Mike Funnell

When the industry you work in cuts penalty rates within the next twelve months, remember yesterday.
When the entire workforce has been casualised, remember yesterday.
When your kids are slaves to labour hire companies and never find secure work, remember yesterday.
When your local public hospitals and schools are defunded to the point of collapse, remember yesterday.
When your taxes increase while the wealthy gain tax cuts totalling in the billions, remember yesterday.
When the banks get waved through to proceed with their predatory business model without consequences for the crimes exposed by the banking royal commission, remember yesterday.
When people who defended a debauched, convicted paedophile priest take their seats in our national parliament, remember yesterday.
Congratulations, Australia. This dystopian nightmare is what you’ve signed up to.

Craig MacPherson

Once I got into politics, I saw the real fight, where big money controls everything, and where politicians care more about campaign contributions than the people they’re supposed to represent.

Richard Ojeda

This final, anti-Electric Vehicle ridiculousness was pure Liberal party. Scattershot, meaningless, and easily mockable, but in the end, a reflection of fearful hearts and scared, anxious men trying to preserve a fabricated reality.

Ketan Joshi

Scott Morrison keeps saying: when you vote for Bill Shorten, you get Bill Shorten. But, you actually get Bill Shorten, Tanya Plibersek, Penny Wong, Chris Bowen, Anthony Albanese, Tony Burke, Jim Chalmers, Michelle Rowland and a multitude of experienced, intelligent, reasonable, dedicated people. Possibly with a side of Richard di Natale. What he is very careful to not say is, when you vote for Scott Morrison, you get Scott Morrison, Peter Dutton, Tony Abbott, Kevin Andrews, Michaelia Cash, Barnaby Joyce, George Christensen, David Littleproud and a bunch of other self-serving numbskulls with little pride, honour or nous, and a generous serving of Clive Palmer, Cory Bernardi and Pauline Hanson.

Lee Lin Chin