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Ley compares First Fleet to Musk's Mars mission in Australia Day speech (www.abc.net.au)

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In that it was an effort by horrible people to degrade the human condition with no respect for the harm caused along the way sure.

Lmfao how the hell do we have the cult of musk sniffing in Australian politics?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't think that's legal here. Australian political campaigns are typically not on the scale of corrupted that usa ones are. Clive Palmer is probably the most dramatic example of someone trying to buy influence and it didn't work out as amazingly cost effective.

I also suspect that Murdoch would fight hard to resist any attempt to remove him from his station as political kingmaker in Australia.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

and it didn't work out

It definitely did work out. He may not have gotten himself elected, but that was never really the goal. The primary goal was always keeping Labor out. Which he did, very successfully, in the 2019 unloseable election.

[–] WhatAmLemmy 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Who's going to enforce these laws? Who's responsible for stepping in and blocking the payments? Arresting the individuals who accept these payments?

The Murdoch media is the propaganda machine directly behind Trumps rise to power. They've been sowing the seeds for fascism for decades. What makes you think he wants a fascist dictatorship in the states but not the rest of 5 eyes, or the world?

I'm getting real tired of "Liberals" acting like it can't happen here, and we don't all live in plutocracies where most state and federal pollies are bankrolled by the wealthiest oligarchs, corporations, industries, and multinationals. America is definitely the most egregious example, but 5 eyes has been destroying civil liberties and implementing mass surveillance in lockstep for most of our lives.