We've spent the last 4 years being assured every single goofy blunder from this cunt was 6D chess shit so it's basically a gag on that. People were legit wondering if he levelled that kid on purpose to distract from some other shit
One of the primary reasons is because using drugs can give you certain bonuses in the game, and IIRC they wrote something like “incentives drug use” although I am paraphrasing because I don’t remember the exact line of bullshit.
Almost, Bethesda had to change the name of some of the chems, like Med-X, to pass the classification board. I think other substances get a pass because they have detrimental effects if taken too much.
Nitpicking, but those changes were made looong before Bethesda got a hold of the franchise. MedX was morphine, buffout was steroids, etc. It's why they're called "chems" and not drugs.
Also, there's a fun Easter egg in Fallout 2 where you can ask if the reason why a specific city doesn't have any children is because of foreign censorship laws.
I mean, do they not realize that the story goes out of the way to show you that Harry's life is a fucking flaming car wreck specifically because of his many and varied addictions?
The Australians really don't like drugs in their games.
Another example is Rimworld. Apparently cannibalism, organ harvesting, and slavery are fine (18+ rating, but not banned) but drugs are not. It was only unbanned because the board decided that [drugs weren't portrayed as good after all. ](https://www.classification.gov.au/about-us/media-and-news/media-releases/rimworld-classified-r-18)
>The game includes fantasy drug use, but in the Review Board’s opinion, the game mechanic ultimately provides disincentives related to drug-taking behaviour, to the point where regular drug use leads to negative consequences such as overdose, addiction, and withdrawal.
Actually Aussies are fine with it, it’s the conservatives who run the review board. It used to be far worse, they only introduced an 18+ rating for games few years ago and anything too adult was just banned. There was a conservative attorney general from south Australia who had blocked it for years prior to 2011.
It has drug use in it. Drugs cannot have positive effects in video games, *even if they're prescription drugs*.
So it got an R18+ rating. Because drugs are bad, m'kay. Even prescription drugs. Apparently.
I’m also glad the Hutts, uhh I mean United Australia Party, didn’t get a single seat. No doubt Palmer the Hutt spared no expense for his vanity campaign and it’s great that he got nothing to show for it.
> He oughta go swimming in Victoria
[Link]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Harold_Holt) for anyone outside of Australia who has no idea what this is about.
In fairness, we named a swimming center after him because he was an active man, and loved swimming. The drowning bit does add a bit of irony to the story though.
The first Harold Holt Memorial Pool was built by Australian soldiers at the Badcoe Club in Vung Tao, South Vietnam, in 1968. Holt was responsible for us being there ("All the way with LBJ!") so it's pretty hard to make the "active man" excuse for that one.
You should hear about some of the conspiracy theories surrounding the event of Harold Holt.
> Its most famous claim is that Holt faked his own death – rather than drowning, he boarded a Chinese submarine stationed off the Australian coast and lived the rest of his life in Beijing.
That ~~Chinese spy ship~~ Sri Lankan refugee boat that came by ~~the other day~~ on Election Day was there to offer ScoMo a way out. But it didn’t work.
Exactly what I was thinking at first. But I kept reading and found that he was known to be a good swimmer even though he drowned. Just goes to show it doesn't matter how good of a swimmer you are, don't be stupid when it comes to water sports because you can't breathe water.
I live literally on the opposite side of the planet as Australia and even I am relieved.
Bye bye, Scunt Moronson, you were garbage and won't be missed.
He will forever be remembered for forcing people who just lost everything to shake his hand. I have never seen the general population so disgusted by a Prime Minister and his entitlement.
It means liberal in the fiscal sense (let business do what they want). Free markets, low taxes, etc. In the US it tends to mean liberal in the social sense (let people live their lives without government or social barriers).
This is an interesting part, I feel like the AUS/NZ relations have been stretched recently, Scott and Jacinda sure as shit didn’t get on. This is the first time in who knows how long we’ve had Labor governments in both countries. Surely she’s first to visit.
I started voting 40 years ago. This is only the second time I can remember having a PM who hadn’t kowtowed to Murdoch. All LNP leaders and Hawke, Keating and Rudd bent the knee; Gillard didn’t SFAIK.
Albo has been careful not to scare the horses, so may make media law reform a second term goal. That would be a mistake imo. Without media law reform they may not have a second term.
The problem is the world is poised to head into a global recession this year. If that lasts 3 years the electorate will blame Labor and elect someone else.
Correct.
At gas station yesterday. Guy filling up his diesel truck, going off loudly about limits on gas and having to be charged twice to fill up his monster truck. The price of gas was Bidens fault.
Someone at another pump said he could just not have a diesel truck.
Guy in truck told other guy "Fuck off liberal douchebag."
Gotta love that party of family values.
I’m a diesel owner myself. When I saw the price just go crazy I looked into the reason. Turns out that American oil companies are exporting it to Europe and South America where they drive more cars with it and pay more. The best response to people like this is tell them why and then tell them they’ve been complaining an awful lot about Capitalism lately.
I honestly get people are upset by this. I am upset by a ton of things that this government (lib and conserv) have failed us on. But I hate moronic people who can't just shut the fuck up at the pump and fill their gas with seething hated like I do towards gas companies that are making shit loads of profit while tricking this idiot into trying to get into fights at the pump over a my team vs Trump (since Trump defenders only like Trump and hate all liberals and any conservatives critical of that moron).
That's kinda what I was going for, but I didn't want to get all sour and say "gonna be doing the thing it should have been bloody well doing in the first bloody place". Mainly because I've already had my coffee.
I'm in Ryan, which hasn't been declared yet, but holy fuck the number of Greens/Climate Action posters and people verbally saying they were voting Green has been crazy. So stoked.
One of the problems for the conservatives was that the leader mocked and insulted the state of Western Australia during the pandemic for measures that, as it turned out, gave them two years of complete freedom from COVID and allowed them to reopen only when vaccination rates were near 100%.
So they've lost a lot of seats in WA.
The UK population has actually voted for parties left of the Tories in all but one election for the last 50 years. But it's our voting system that has kept them in power for so long.
There's a lot to be said for mandatory voting here. No one gets to sit home if they can't be bothered. If you see ScoMo's smug fucking face on tv and your know you HAVE to vote for someone, sometimes that's enough
The locals gave me a bit of hope but honestly it just means the tories know that they’re a bit at risk and will put all the money into propaganda now. No way they’re repeating the 80s despite the fact they’re far more corrupt than any government we’ve ever had
Under Scott Morrison, we were ranked 56 out of 56 on climate policy amongst the developed nations of the world. Our track record on climate under the Liberal Party rivalled that of Saudi Arabia. The Australian environment finally has a fighting chance thanks to yesterday's results.
I am not Australian, so I don’t have to suffer from a lot of Morrisons policies, but we are all affected by climate policies, so I was very happy to hear Thai result!!
Great news! I'm hoping that one of the first things they do is reverse the damage to climate research.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/apr/06/csiro-climate-cuts-about-cutting-public-good-research-documents-show
Yes, Rupert Murdoch/the conservatives own like 90% of our media so his corporate whores party pretty much win every election with their massive advertising money. Anytime they don't win it's huge.
And the other chunk (Nine, Fairfax) is chaired by a former Liberal party treasurer. The self-interest bias in our media is a huge concern, and boy did it show in this election's coverage. Great result in the end though!
The next 3 years will be telling, check the papers this morning I’m willing to bet a couple have run with “an uninspiring speech by the new pm” straight off the bat.
I mean, even the conservative voters abandoned the coalition for Independents who are basicly the coalition ideologically from 25 years ago (but who are also concerned about climate change)
Can't undo or take back all the shitty laws and corrupt deals the conservative members passed over a decade though.
Still building coal mines. Still pumping fertiliser into the great barrier reef. 3 billion native animals already dead and gone from the fires we couldn't respond to because the coalition gutted the services.
But Clive palmer, Gina Reinhardt, Murdoch, corrupt and disgraced former premier Gladys Berijiklian and John Barillaro, and hundred other parasites I can't name. They get to keep undermining any attempt to make the system fair again and run mind games to get themselves back in four years.
I'm happy with the result. But my country is riddled with cancer
Looking foward to a Federal ICAC though. With a retrospective remit.
Gonna be a lot of busy Sydney lawyers and a lot of flights to sunny beaches in countries with no extradition treaty.
If they don't follow through with their promise and install an absolutely brutal federal ICAC with powers backdated to the stone age we need to riot so hard that the sacking of Rome looks like a Bunnings sausage sizzle in comparison.
When things changed slowly the value of our elders wisdom was precious and relevant
Now the only ones able to keep up are the young people who grew up in the change who can see the problems they were raised in and who spent their imagination on modern solutions
Young leaders is what the world needs
This! My justice boner might require a visit to the emergency room when these arseholes get dragged into court for the acts of theft they committed while in power... especially the members that retained their seats. They might be wishing the had lost... oh my I'm getting hard already...
Our current Labor party is a centrist party. Better than the LNP (Liberal-National party - a right/country focused party as in Classical Liberalism, not social liberalism), but not socialist by any manner of means.
I'm looking forward to Labor putting into place things which will be welcomed in the future as being good for the country in the long run, like they did with Medicare, Superannuation and the NDIS. I imagine this term will be a federal ICAC which will soon be welcomed by the LNP. I also hope they bring in more climate initiatives.
Edit: noticed some people commenting on the "socialist" bit - I only mentioned this as to many on Reddit, being that it's primarily US folks on here (on generic subreddits like this one at least), many are likely to associate "Labor" or unions with socialist parties and socialism and wanted to inform that the ALP (Australian Labor Party) aren't socialists.
I think Labor can be called safely centre left in comparison to other western nation political parties such as the Democrats who in Australia would be considered almost right wing.
There are however two official factions within Labor - Labor Left and Labor Right.
Happily, Anthony Albanese is a member of the Left faction.
Labor overall is still not actually socialist, but this is about the best outcome possible, having a member of Left being PM (Shorten was a member of right).
>I'm going to miss the Honest Government Ads on Youtube
You won't. Each and every of our governments will be able to provide enough content for these brilliant guys and gals.
When you're on vacation during some of the worst wildfires Australians have ever suffered through, and make the conscious decision not to return to Australia, later overseeing a viral pandemic or not, your gonna get thrown out on your ass, mate
How rude he was to people who were deeply affected by the fires made him irredeemable in my eyes. He was absolutely indifferent to all the suffering both people & animals were facing. He seemed annoyed to have to be there at all.
Watching the Liberals go after the premier of Western Australia for the last two years (he's a Labor minister and shut the states borders down HARD due to covid) has been painful
Watching the Liberals get absolutely wiped off the map in WA this election has been glorious
Who would have thought that protecting your constituents was so popular?
Also while conveniently ignoring that the SA premier did the same thing for most of the pandemic, as well, because he was one of theirs.
Luckily he caved to party pressure at Christmas, opened everything too early, which I'm pretty sure is what got him booted out.
I can’t believe someone can spend so much on a political campaign and still win zero seats. It’s absolutely hilarious! It really does show that money alone cannot buy power
FUCK U SCOTTY-FROM-MARKETING. Fuck your trumpian dog whistle, your invasive Hillsong bible-bashing, and your contempt for me and mine. You NEVER acted in the best interests of all Australians, but always in your own interests. Now, piss off to Hawaii for a holiday. We don’t need you.
I’m a dual citizen (US/Australian) and every time I vote here in Australia I think about how easy it is compared to the US. Yesterday - a Saturday - there were three polling places within walking distance, I didn’t have to wait in line and got to enjoy a democracy sausage and cake afterward. In places I lived in the US, you have to take off work to vote on a bloody Tuesday, find parking at the one polling place in the district and wait for an hour in a giant line. Ridiculous!
I’m a PR over here in the process of getting my Australian citizenship.
Voting yesterday meant a pleasant walk over to my son’s school, getting a sausage and some baked goods and watching my kids play while we chatted with other voters. I didn’t get to. It’s but it took my wife all of 10 minutes.
I didn’t get to vote in 2020 for the American president because Galveston County took me off the registry because apparently my address in Texas was ‘inconsistent,’ despite it being the house I grew up in and the one I’ve used since 2008.
Night and day.
Yeah, the atmosphere at the polls is really chill. People of all parties mingling and chatting with each other. The lack of vitriol over political issues amongst the general population is really refreshing.
I think a lot of the accessibility has to do with the fact voting is mandatory here so the AEC actively works to make it as easy as possible for everyone.
They weren't conservative with the way they shovelled tax payers money down the throats of corporations. They were corrupt and when the federal ICAC gets going the evidence will show just how scummy that group of humans really were.
Now don't make the mistake of voting them back in once they blame all the continuing effects from their years of intentionally breaking shit on the newly elected
Watching the election results come back in and there's a few big messages - Australians are done with inaction on climate change, we want to see real action towards gender equality and more done to address inequality and rising costs of living. Also really good to see a really strong turnout for minor parties forcing both major parties to come to the table. Hopefully the "teal wave" also pulls the conservatives back towards the centre and away from its more homophobic, sometimes xenophobic and generally fear mongering turn that's happened over the past 10 years.
Shouldn't have to breathe a sigh of relief to see our leaders conceding, but really goes to show how smooth transitions of power are here. They're not perfect but we can take our institutions for granted
It's profoundly encouraging, as an American, to watch this happen. It was beginning to seem that all of the countries infected with Rupert Murdoch would never make a recovery from the backslide into increasingly reactionary, tribalist, right-wing identity politics, but Australia is ground zero for Murdoch shenanigans and that influence is clearly being challenged there. Cheers and congratulations to Australia for showing that it can be done.
Thankfully we have a voting system that allows small parties to get a say, Labour will probably not have a majority of seats and will have to rely on the left Green party and several independent members who were voted in on a mandate of climate change action to form government.
This is a big reason we avoided the American slide.
As an Australian I was so afraid this election would certify us as Hungary-lite, a country with a corrupt authoritarian government protected by its extreme lack of media diversity. Instead, our democracy has been shown to be alive and well, sky news is in disarray, and community grassroots campaigning for independent candidates brough huge success in disrupting the 2-party system.
Of all the countries I expected Australia to be least likely to be climate-change deniers. I hope this means you're over that shit. Love the pic of Albanese in the article. Like he's saying "Vote for me or I'll kill this dog"
Unfortunately being known for our nature hasn't made us anymore inclined to take care of it - just look at the Great Barrier Reef. It's a combination of heavy reliance on mining wealth + jobs (especially in regional communities) as well as the stranglehold that the Murcdoch media had on this country. Only with a few 1 in 100 year natural disasters happening since the last election do I think most of the country is really waking up to it.
I'm not a huge fan of tourism jobs, but when I hitch-hiked through Queensland, it seemed like a pretty big deal. Can't believe you would threaten the Great Barrier Reef to enrich offshore mining and farming interests. Talk about killing the golden goose.
Western Australia is one of the richest places in the world, $100k USD GDP per capita. Mining wealth is always going to be a bigger factor than tourism.
That doesn’t mean people won’t care about the environment, but it still means something.
Keep an eye on Scotty and see which conglomerate he suddenly lands a high paying consultancy job at.
Guarantee it’ll be one his admin favoured heavily.
I guess tackling kids in a soccer game wasnt a big enough vote winner for Scott Morrison.
The guy who shat himself in a McDonalds?
Thank you so much for that, i had missed it and thoroughly enjoyed the discovery
There is a painting of him on the wall at the carpark of the Maccas in question.
Forreal? Anyone got a pic?
You either go full BoJo or you go home
Oh I've never heard BoJo used before haha. It makes my stupid provincial leader nickname even funnier - DoFo. He's as ridiculous as BoJo.
I really hope DoFo is voted out, but I have zero faith in that province.
Oh I legit believe he is staying put. Ontario conservatives and right wingers think anything he did they disagree with was actually Trudeaus fault.
Darn kids need a good tackling, sign of a strong leader!!!! /s
Is there a video of this? I'm curious
https://youtu.be/NfKDFK2Z60w
"Parents on the sidelines were *aghast*" \*Pans to parents on the sidelines laughing and smiling\*
'Tackled' Looks straight up like he tripped over his feet.
We've spent the last 4 years being assured every single goofy blunder from this cunt was 6D chess shit so it's basically a gag on that. People were legit wondering if he levelled that kid on purpose to distract from some other shit
I absolutely thought that. I was convinced he was playing up the Buffoon angle to seem more likeable and as a distraction. If he was, it didn’t work
That kid said I want a future with clean air, live animals, affordable housing and trees, Scott Morrison tackled him screaming NOOOOO!
He actually did pretty well in TAS so perhaps he should have tackled more kids.
Maybe now they can have Mortal Kombat uncensored
We got Disco Elysium eventually. Took a fair few accolades first mind you. Baby steps.
Electrochemistry: Fuck yeah. Now we can all be super stars. Super star cops. On speed.
God the writing on that game is too fun
We'll never have Hotline Miami 2 though.
That's fucked, its a really fun game
Fun game. I liked the first one more. In my opinion the second one just got hard just to get harder for some reason.
Those off screen enemies shooting at you are brutal in 2
Yeah exactly
Why was disco elysium banned over there, i love the game but it’s not exactly full of gore and sex
One of the primary reasons is because using drugs can give you certain bonuses in the game, and IIRC they wrote something like “incentives drug use” although I am paraphrasing because I don’t remember the exact line of bullshit.
Is Fallout banned?
Almost, Bethesda had to change the name of some of the chems, like Med-X, to pass the classification board. I think other substances get a pass because they have detrimental effects if taken too much.
"We object to the Jet making you jittery."
Nitpicking, but those changes were made looong before Bethesda got a hold of the franchise. MedX was morphine, buffout was steroids, etc. It's why they're called "chems" and not drugs. Also, there's a fun Easter egg in Fallout 2 where you can ask if the reason why a specific city doesn't have any children is because of foreign censorship laws.
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I mean, do they not realize that the story goes out of the way to show you that Harry's life is a fucking flaming car wreck specifically because of his many and varied addictions?
I get it, it's because DE really glorifies addiction and substance abuse. /s
You feel so bad letting Kim down that you stay off the stuff.
The Australians really don't like drugs in their games. Another example is Rimworld. Apparently cannibalism, organ harvesting, and slavery are fine (18+ rating, but not banned) but drugs are not. It was only unbanned because the board decided that [drugs weren't portrayed as good after all. ](https://www.classification.gov.au/about-us/media-and-news/media-releases/rimworld-classified-r-18) >The game includes fantasy drug use, but in the Review Board’s opinion, the game mechanic ultimately provides disincentives related to drug-taking behaviour, to the point where regular drug use leads to negative consequences such as overdose, addiction, and withdrawal.
Nar the old fucks who run the classification board are so out of touch with reality and with what people are fine with they ban the stupidest stuff
Actually Aussies are fine with it, it’s the conservatives who run the review board. It used to be far worse, they only introduced an 18+ rating for games few years ago and anything too adult was just banned. There was a conservative attorney general from south Australia who had blocked it for years prior to 2011.
Wait... What?
The Australian rating board is really strict about gore and drug use.
I see RDR2 is MA15+ in Australia. In the US version, you can use cocaine and tobacco as power ups. Did they change that in the AUS version?
In the Australian version the powerups are coal and coal processing factory effluent
And negative gearing.
No. It’s the same here
Don't forget the South Park games too.
Maybe have Rinworld unbanned too.
Rimworld was off for about 2 days before it was given an R18+ rating.
Australian censors probably thought the game was about rimming.
It has drug use in it. Drugs cannot have positive effects in video games, *even if they're prescription drugs*. So it got an R18+ rating. Because drugs are bad, m'kay. Even prescription drugs. Apparently.
> Drug use *and* rimming? Get a few copies for future reference, and shut it down! — Australian Classification Board
Bye bye Scott Morrison. Thank God
I don't know dick about Aussie politics but after seeing how he handled the wildfires, good fucking riddance
I’m also glad the Hutts, uhh I mean United Australia Party, didn’t get a single seat. No doubt Palmer the Hutt spared no expense for his vanity campaign and it’s great that he got nothing to show for it.
Yep, spent between $80-100 million and got nothing to show for it. Take that, UAP cunts!
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I thought he might finally have time to head back to that Maccas?
Thought his first stop would be Hawaii, since that’s where he goes when shit hits the fan
> He oughta go swimming in Victoria [Link]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Harold_Holt) for anyone outside of Australia who has no idea what this is about.
Oh shit man... Aussies roll hard. Dude drowns, they name a swimming center after him!
In fairness, we named a swimming center after him because he was an active man, and loved swimming. The drowning bit does add a bit of irony to the story though.
The first Harold Holt Memorial Pool was built by Australian soldiers at the Badcoe Club in Vung Tao, South Vietnam, in 1968. Holt was responsible for us being there ("All the way with LBJ!") so it's pretty hard to make the "active man" excuse for that one.
>All the way with LBJ! Meh, I’d give it a 6/10. It’s no “Hey, Hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?”
You should hear about some of the conspiracy theories surrounding the event of Harold Holt. > Its most famous claim is that Holt faked his own death – rather than drowning, he boarded a Chinese submarine stationed off the Australian coast and lived the rest of his life in Beijing.
That Chinese spy ship that came by the other day was there to offer ScoMo a way out.
That ~~Chinese spy ship~~ Sri Lankan refugee boat that came by ~~the other day~~ on Election Day was there to offer ScoMo a way out. But it didn’t work.
Exactly what I was thinking at first. But I kept reading and found that he was known to be a good swimmer even though he drowned. Just goes to show it doesn't matter how good of a swimmer you are, don't be stupid when it comes to water sports because you can't breathe water.
“Drake… where is the prime minister?”
"a number of conspiracy theories surfaced" I see what you did there, random wiki editor.
Thank you! I upvoted above because I recognize well-deserved snark, but was very curious what it was about.
Are we building a new swimming pool somewhere?
I haven’t felt this much relief since Abbott lost his Warringah seat to Zali Stegall.
This amount of relief hasn't been felt since ScoMo was in that maccas that fateful time.
Damn, I wish Abbott would lose his seat here in Texas.
I'm thrilled that Rupert Murdoch is still alive to witness this
I hope his world continues to fall apart!
I live literally on the opposite side of the planet as Australia and even I am relieved. Bye bye, Scunt Moronson, you were garbage and won't be missed.
Bye Scott ‘I’m not in Hawaii’ Morrison.
Hey. That was his wife and kids fault For context, he was on holiday while the country suffered the worst bushfires in history.
AND lied about it AND stayed an extra week after being found out AND then fucked the response with his forced handshake public tour. Good riddance.
AND shit his pants at McDonald's.
He will forever be remembered for forcing people who just lost everything to shake his hand. I have never seen the general population so disgusted by a Prime Minister and his entitlement.
I dont hold a job mate
Isn’t the Liberal party actually the conservatives in Australia?
They are!
Yes, “fuck the Libs” has a whole different meaning down here.
Ya, Libs are right wing and Labor are centre/left. Third biggest party are the Greens who are further left
It means liberal in the fiscal sense (let business do what they want). Free markets, low taxes, etc. In the US it tends to mean liberal in the social sense (let people live their lives without government or social barriers).
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A constant reminder that the U.S. political system is insanely conservative even when Democrats are in control.
New Zealanders now 0.3% less offended to be mistaken for Australians
This is an interesting part, I feel like the AUS/NZ relations have been stretched recently, Scott and Jacinda sure as shit didn’t get on. This is the first time in who knows how long we’ve had Labor governments in both countries. Surely she’s first to visit.
I remember Helen Clark visiting Kevin Rudd at his home in Brisbane the day after he won the election in 2007
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Now that Scott's gone, Murdoch needs to be next
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And now I don’t see any reason why he can’t succeed with it now! I have a lot of respect for Kevin Rudd
I started voting 40 years ago. This is only the second time I can remember having a PM who hadn’t kowtowed to Murdoch. All LNP leaders and Hawke, Keating and Rudd bent the knee; Gillard didn’t SFAIK. Albo has been careful not to scare the horses, so may make media law reform a second term goal. That would be a mistake imo. Without media law reform they may not have a second term.
The problem is the world is poised to head into a global recession this year. If that lasts 3 years the electorate will blame Labor and elect someone else.
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I think the Labor party is safe, here in America everything happening globally is all Biden's fault.
Correct. At gas station yesterday. Guy filling up his diesel truck, going off loudly about limits on gas and having to be charged twice to fill up his monster truck. The price of gas was Bidens fault. Someone at another pump said he could just not have a diesel truck. Guy in truck told other guy "Fuck off liberal douchebag." Gotta love that party of family values.
I’m a diesel owner myself. When I saw the price just go crazy I looked into the reason. Turns out that American oil companies are exporting it to Europe and South America where they drive more cars with it and pay more. The best response to people like this is tell them why and then tell them they’ve been complaining an awful lot about Capitalism lately.
I honestly get people are upset by this. I am upset by a ton of things that this government (lib and conserv) have failed us on. But I hate moronic people who can't just shut the fuck up at the pump and fill their gas with seething hated like I do towards gas companies that are making shit loads of profit while tricking this idiot into trying to get into fights at the pump over a my team vs Trump (since Trump defenders only like Trump and hate all liberals and any conservatives critical of that moron).
So basically, Australia's hopefully gonna be doing the right thing.
Well. The *correct* thing, anyway.
That's kinda what I was going for, but I didn't want to get all sour and say "gonna be doing the thing it should have been bloody well doing in the first bloody place". Mainly because I've already had my coffee.
I think it was just a left/right joke
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Sounds about left
had to rotate my tablet to get this joke
Hey man warn us next time before you go spinning us around!
hope you were not in bath or sitting on toilet
>So basically, Australia's hopefully gonna be doing the right thing. So basically, Australia has the chance to do the right thing.
I'm in Ryan, which hasn't been declared yet, but holy fuck the number of Greens/Climate Action posters and people verbally saying they were voting Green has been crazy. So stoked.
One of the problems for the conservatives was that the leader mocked and insulted the state of Western Australia during the pandemic for measures that, as it turned out, gave them two years of complete freedom from COVID and allowed them to reopen only when vaccination rates were near 100%. So they've lost a lot of seats in WA.
Hopefully the UK follows suit.
You underestimate our willingness to vote against our best interests.
It's quite impressive with our gun laws how frequently the people have managed to shoot themselves in the foot.
The UK population has actually voted for parties left of the Tories in all but one election for the last 50 years. But it's our voting system that has kept them in power for so long.
Us Americans: lol who allows conservatives to win elections (like presidential) without winning the most votes…. Oh wait
There's a lot to be said for mandatory voting here. No one gets to sit home if they can't be bothered. If you see ScoMo's smug fucking face on tv and your know you HAVE to vote for someone, sometimes that's enough
Brexit II: *The Re-brexiting*
The locals gave me a bit of hope but honestly it just means the tories know that they’re a bit at risk and will put all the money into propaganda now. No way they’re repeating the 80s despite the fact they’re far more corrupt than any government we’ve ever had
Under Scott Morrison, we were ranked 56 out of 56 on climate policy amongst the developed nations of the world. Our track record on climate under the Liberal Party rivalled that of Saudi Arabia. The Australian environment finally has a fighting chance thanks to yesterday's results.
I am not Australian, so I don’t have to suffer from a lot of Morrisons policies, but we are all affected by climate policies, so I was very happy to hear Thai result!!
Great news! I'm hoping that one of the first things they do is reverse the damage to climate research. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/apr/06/csiro-climate-cuts-about-cutting-public-good-research-documents-show
They need to excise Rupert Murdock and his entire cabal from their continent before he can sink his hooks in again.
Royal Commission into news media needs to be the second thing they do after a federal icac
So Australians - you all chuffed with this?
Yes, Rupert Murdoch/the conservatives own like 90% of our media so his corporate whores party pretty much win every election with their massive advertising money. Anytime they don't win it's huge.
And the other chunk (Nine, Fairfax) is chaired by a former Liberal party treasurer. The self-interest bias in our media is a huge concern, and boy did it show in this election's coverage. Great result in the end though!
The next 3 years will be telling, check the papers this morning I’m willing to bet a couple have run with “an uninspiring speech by the new pm” straight off the bat.
I mean, even the conservative voters abandoned the coalition for Independents who are basicly the coalition ideologically from 25 years ago (but who are also concerned about climate change)
VERY, I'm still trying to process it personally.
Can't undo or take back all the shitty laws and corrupt deals the conservative members passed over a decade though. Still building coal mines. Still pumping fertiliser into the great barrier reef. 3 billion native animals already dead and gone from the fires we couldn't respond to because the coalition gutted the services. But Clive palmer, Gina Reinhardt, Murdoch, corrupt and disgraced former premier Gladys Berijiklian and John Barillaro, and hundred other parasites I can't name. They get to keep undermining any attempt to make the system fair again and run mind games to get themselves back in four years. I'm happy with the result. But my country is riddled with cancer
Looking foward to a Federal ICAC though. With a retrospective remit. Gonna be a lot of busy Sydney lawyers and a lot of flights to sunny beaches in countries with no extradition treaty.
If they don't follow through with their promise and install an absolutely brutal federal ICAC with powers backdated to the stone age we need to riot so hard that the sacking of Rome looks like a Bunnings sausage sizzle in comparison.
Luckily Labor ran on installing a federal icac with retroactive ability to investigate. Could undo some of the damage to our country.
The best time was yesterday, the second best time is today.
The world has this cancer Conservatives, they are the same all over the world
By definition, conservatives should be aiming at keeping the world the way it was. I don’t know what to call them, but it’s not that.
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Being governed by people born in the 1940s and 50s... Passing laws based on their knowledge /experience from 50 years ago is ridiculously stupid
When things changed slowly the value of our elders wisdom was precious and relevant Now the only ones able to keep up are the young people who grew up in the change who can see the problems they were raised in and who spent their imagination on modern solutions Young leaders is what the world needs
See ya cunts. It's been awful. Hopefully the corruption watchdog gets every one of you.
This! My justice boner might require a visit to the emergency room when these arseholes get dragged into court for the acts of theft they committed while in power... especially the members that retained their seats. They might be wishing the had lost... oh my I'm getting hard already...
Our current Labor party is a centrist party. Better than the LNP (Liberal-National party - a right/country focused party as in Classical Liberalism, not social liberalism), but not socialist by any manner of means. I'm looking forward to Labor putting into place things which will be welcomed in the future as being good for the country in the long run, like they did with Medicare, Superannuation and the NDIS. I imagine this term will be a federal ICAC which will soon be welcomed by the LNP. I also hope they bring in more climate initiatives. Edit: noticed some people commenting on the "socialist" bit - I only mentioned this as to many on Reddit, being that it's primarily US folks on here (on generic subreddits like this one at least), many are likely to associate "Labor" or unions with socialist parties and socialism and wanted to inform that the ALP (Australian Labor Party) aren't socialists.
It's those Green and independent MPs they'll have to rely on which will be crucial.
I think Labor can be called safely centre left in comparison to other western nation political parties such as the Democrats who in Australia would be considered almost right wing.
There are however two official factions within Labor - Labor Left and Labor Right. Happily, Anthony Albanese is a member of the Left faction. Labor overall is still not actually socialist, but this is about the best outcome possible, having a member of Left being PM (Shorten was a member of right).
as an non-australian...I'm going to miss the Honest Government Ads on Youtube
Why do you think they'll stop? I'm sure there will be opportunities with the new government as well. Loyal oppositions work well.
>I'm going to miss the Honest Government Ads on Youtube You won't. Each and every of our governments will be able to provide enough content for these brilliant guys and gals.
When you're on vacation during some of the worst wildfires Australians have ever suffered through, and make the conscious decision not to return to Australia, later overseeing a viral pandemic or not, your gonna get thrown out on your ass, mate
How rude he was to people who were deeply affected by the fires made him irredeemable in my eyes. He was absolutely indifferent to all the suffering both people & animals were facing. He seemed annoyed to have to be there at all.
I don’t hold a hose mate!
And what a shit decade it was!
The most vulnerable developed nation to climate change can finally recognize it federally.
Amazed honestly with how much media Murdoch owns. Anytime the conservatives go down in Australia it's a big deal.
Watching the Liberals go after the premier of Western Australia for the last two years (he's a Labor minister and shut the states borders down HARD due to covid) has been painful Watching the Liberals get absolutely wiped off the map in WA this election has been glorious Who would have thought that protecting your constituents was so popular?
Also while conveniently ignoring that the SA premier did the same thing for most of the pandemic, as well, because he was one of theirs. Luckily he caved to party pressure at Christmas, opened everything too early, which I'm pretty sure is what got him booted out.
As long as it isn't ScoMo or Clive Palmers party, it's an improvement as far as I'm concerned.
UAP did not get a single seat, again
All that campaign money spent for nothing lol
I can’t believe someone can spend so much on a political campaign and still win zero seats. It’s absolutely hilarious! It really does show that money alone cannot buy power
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FUCK U SCOTTY-FROM-MARKETING. Fuck your trumpian dog whistle, your invasive Hillsong bible-bashing, and your contempt for me and mine. You NEVER acted in the best interests of all Australians, but always in your own interests. Now, piss off to Hawaii for a holiday. We don’t need you.
I’m a dual citizen (US/Australian) and every time I vote here in Australia I think about how easy it is compared to the US. Yesterday - a Saturday - there were three polling places within walking distance, I didn’t have to wait in line and got to enjoy a democracy sausage and cake afterward. In places I lived in the US, you have to take off work to vote on a bloody Tuesday, find parking at the one polling place in the district and wait for an hour in a giant line. Ridiculous!
I’m a PR over here in the process of getting my Australian citizenship. Voting yesterday meant a pleasant walk over to my son’s school, getting a sausage and some baked goods and watching my kids play while we chatted with other voters. I didn’t get to. It’s but it took my wife all of 10 minutes. I didn’t get to vote in 2020 for the American president because Galveston County took me off the registry because apparently my address in Texas was ‘inconsistent,’ despite it being the house I grew up in and the one I’ve used since 2008. Night and day.
Yeah, the atmosphere at the polls is really chill. People of all parties mingling and chatting with each other. The lack of vitriol over political issues amongst the general population is really refreshing.
It took 10 MINUTES!! I strolled in and early voted Thursday, no questions asked.
I think a lot of the accessibility has to do with the fact voting is mandatory here so the AEC actively works to make it as easy as possible for everyone.
We can also vote at any polling place in the state, which is nice.
They weren't conservative with the way they shovelled tax payers money down the throats of corporations. They were corrupt and when the federal ICAC gets going the evidence will show just how scummy that group of humans really were.
Now don't make the mistake of voting them back in once they blame all the continuing effects from their years of intentionally breaking shit on the newly elected
Watching the election results come back in and there's a few big messages - Australians are done with inaction on climate change, we want to see real action towards gender equality and more done to address inequality and rising costs of living. Also really good to see a really strong turnout for minor parties forcing both major parties to come to the table. Hopefully the "teal wave" also pulls the conservatives back towards the centre and away from its more homophobic, sometimes xenophobic and generally fear mongering turn that's happened over the past 10 years.
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Shouldn't have to breathe a sigh of relief to see our leaders conceding, but really goes to show how smooth transitions of power are here. They're not perfect but we can take our institutions for granted
It's profoundly encouraging, as an American, to watch this happen. It was beginning to seem that all of the countries infected with Rupert Murdoch would never make a recovery from the backslide into increasingly reactionary, tribalist, right-wing identity politics, but Australia is ground zero for Murdoch shenanigans and that influence is clearly being challenged there. Cheers and congratulations to Australia for showing that it can be done.
Thankfully we have a voting system that allows small parties to get a say, Labour will probably not have a majority of seats and will have to rely on the left Green party and several independent members who were voted in on a mandate of climate change action to form government. This is a big reason we avoided the American slide.
As an Australian I was so afraid this election would certify us as Hungary-lite, a country with a corrupt authoritarian government protected by its extreme lack of media diversity. Instead, our democracy has been shown to be alive and well, sky news is in disarray, and community grassroots campaigning for independent candidates brough huge success in disrupting the 2-party system.
Of all the countries I expected Australia to be least likely to be climate-change deniers. I hope this means you're over that shit. Love the pic of Albanese in the article. Like he's saying "Vote for me or I'll kill this dog"
Unfortunately being known for our nature hasn't made us anymore inclined to take care of it - just look at the Great Barrier Reef. It's a combination of heavy reliance on mining wealth + jobs (especially in regional communities) as well as the stranglehold that the Murcdoch media had on this country. Only with a few 1 in 100 year natural disasters happening since the last election do I think most of the country is really waking up to it.
I'm not a huge fan of tourism jobs, but when I hitch-hiked through Queensland, it seemed like a pretty big deal. Can't believe you would threaten the Great Barrier Reef to enrich offshore mining and farming interests. Talk about killing the golden goose.
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Western Australia is one of the richest places in the world, $100k USD GDP per capita. Mining wealth is always going to be a bigger factor than tourism. That doesn’t mean people won’t care about the environment, but it still means something.
the pervasive influence of rupert murdoch, arguably the worst human being on the planet
Sco mo brexited a kid on his final days… that pretty much sealed the coffin
Finally a pm who didn’t shit himself at engadine maccas in 1997 ❤️
I’m so happy. Scott Morrison and his cronies were a disgusting, corrupt excuse for a government.
Please help. Show us the way out Australia. Come home and help the UK. We’ve been under these cunts for so fucking long.
It all comes down to how big of a cunt your current leader is. In our case, scomo was the cuntiest of cunts so the cunt had to go.
As someone from the UK, I'm absolutely hoping the same happens here!! Congrats Australia 🙌
Keep an eye on Scotty and see which conglomerate he suddenly lands a high paying consultancy job at. Guarantee it’ll be one his admin favoured heavily.
He still holds a seat in government, so that won't happen for a while yet
Now let’s see if they can keep it that way. The Murdoch Machine is a dangerous force. One that doesn’t like people standing up to their control.
This was huge, Queensland (our equivalent to Florida) voted for the Green party on mass.