The Election. Let’s talk about it.
As we all saw on Saturday the Australian Labor Party won by a large majority vote which has now become a significant mark in the Party’s history. This is the first prime minister (since Bob Hawke) to win back-to-back elections with a two-party-preferred vote of 51.5%.
Along with this, Peter Dutton, the candidate for the Prime Minister from the Australia Liberal party lost his seat to Labour’s Ali France, meaning he is no longer involved in the passing of the countries bills and legislations.
Although there must be a big reason for the Australian preference shift. It’s also quite a valid hypothesis to suggest that Liberal’s campaign this time “didn’t hit the mark”. With the Liberal Party promising changes such as reduced allowance for work from home completely went against Australia’s wishes. With a country with almost 6.5 million parents, Australia wants the ability to care for their family whilst balancing the working aspect of life.
Dave Sharma, a Liberal senator talks about their campaign, “We clearly didn’t appeal to middle Australia. I mean we went backwards everywhere…” This is regarding their new campaign promoting their movement more towards the conservative side of Australia.
Another unexpected election result was the complete loss of the Greens Party, potentially losing all their seats (some votes are still being clarified) who usually acquire an adequate number of seats in lower Parliament. The Greens are an independent political party which normally pushes a central left party like Labor, further left. Without seats in parliament this gives labor the utmost power to push laws and legislations without the need of approval from any party, even the Greens. However, the Greens still possess 11 Senate seats so Labour still need to properly convince the benefits of their bills to the Senate of Green to support the approval and administration of such law.
The remaining parties that didn’t win any seats were One Nation and Trumpet of Patriots, both right wing parties. Trumpet of Patriots worked exceptionally hard to gain favour by spending $80 million on advertising. As it turns out constant YouTube ads and spamming the messages of both legible and illegible Australians isn’t an effective strategy to gain votes. Inspired by former U.S. President Donald Trump, the party ran on a platform focused on reducing immigration, restricting foreign ownership of Australian property, and eliminating what it described as the “woke agenda” from school curriculam.
In conclusion, the era of ridiculous campaigns and annoying texting have subsided, so let me leave you with the words of Australia’s current Labour Prime Minister, “They were delulu with no solulu”.
See you in 3 years!
