The Australian Politics & News Thread

[Dr. Zoidberg]

Cherry Ripe is still good. I like desiccated coconut.

And Trumpet Of Patriots is the dumbest political party name of all time.

[ian]

Cherry Ripe is still good. I like desiccated coconut.

And Trumpet Of Patriots is the dumbest political party name of all time.

If it were American, I would argue that it's the best party name ever. But it's not, it's an Australian political party, so yes I agree it's the dumbest name ever.

I'd call my party:
Country United, National Triumph.

One downside is the abbreviation is CUNT. But we could have Welcome to Cunt-ry ceremonies!

[Dr. Zoidberg]

How about:

Australian National Autocracy Lobby

or

Australian National United Society

or

Victoria Australia Guilds Independent National Association

[ian]

So the prime minister has said to buy Australian...

Fucking how?
Basically everything is from overseas, and if it's not FROM overseas it's owned overseas, and if it's somehow locally made and owned it's either far, far inferior, or priced outside the realm of fucking sanity.

Being multicultural, and having a good trade with the entire world was of great benefit to us for more than a hundred years, but now we're kind of a bit fucked in that we are so absolutely reliant on the rest of the world for practically everything.

About the only way to buy Australian is to admit you want to live in the 1800's and go without practically everything that makes modern life worth living.
I hope you like spending $1780 on a pine bedside table made locally from local wood, because you're not supposed to pay $50 for something with the exact same function from IKEA.


Large range of wines and SPC canned food are about the only thing we can buy that's local and not prohibitively expensive.

Of course we won't be able to cook because we send all our gas and coal overseas and charge out the ass for what's left here. Ditto with having homes because all our steel goes overseas for a pittance and we buy it back as useful stuff for 300 times the price... And we won't be able to see anything because we couldn't make even a lightbulb locally.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

https://x.com/mrtonymartin/status/1900514055225254264

:rofl2:

[Dr. Zoidberg]

[Dr. Zoidberg]

This thread is now in...ELECTION MODE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xUFUXMiaDs

The all important betting odds:

[Dr. Zoidberg]

https://x.com/theheraldsun/status/1905514623241257206

https://x.com/Leo_Puglisi6/status/1905510947151860118

[Dr. Zoidberg]

https://x.com/RoyMorganAus/status/1906589890294284394

https://x.com/RoyMorganAus/status/1906590069512876431

[Dr. Zoidberg]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYV0SxRbDgo

[Dr. Zoidberg]

[ian]

I numbered every single number from 1 to what felt like 9038 simply to put the liberals last.

In the past I've not agreed with a lot of their policies, and some of the prime ministers from the past 30 years should literally be hanged for fucking treason. But in most Federal elections since 2007 I normally just put a blank ballot in, or a profanity if I'm feeling energetic.

But the current liberals were so fucking dangerous it got my ass to actually vote, and a few others I know to actually vote properly as well.

Sure Labour will fuck us all over almost as badly, and can't even spell their party name correctly, but at least they have like actual policies. Their policies may not be any good, but they actually have some which I think was the key to them winning.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

Labor smashed them.

And LOL at Dutton losing his seat.