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the current government
Aren't both parties pretty much the same*, other than a few licks of paint? Both in hock to BigMining, and both eager to prevent any movement away from a two-party system.
* caveat - I know very little about Aussie politics.
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Isn't this just old-fashioned winner-takes-all politics in a nutshell? Both main parties hate each other and try to amplify the differences in policy to try to imply more plurality of politics than is really the case. But both hate any new upstarts who want to take away their gravy train even more than they hate each other and they will gang up on anyone or anything trying to upset the status quo.
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On certain aspects, yes, but there are proper differences from what I can see ... A much less jingoistic approach to foreign policy being one example
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pascalo
Speaking of Oz: The current pile on is "Mass immigration caused the rental crisis".
Followed by all the racists coming out of the woods venting about how there aren't even any aussie born children in their kid's school anymore, and so on. After decades of gamifying property ownership and rewarding it with negative gearing, combined with no investment in infrastructure or planning or anything. It's a fucking joke.
Don't get me wrong, the current rental crisis is real. But blaming immigrants for it is just the dumbest laziest way to contextualise it.
Also a joke to pin this on the current government, as if this stuff was caused within the last 6 months.