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From Doge to Smoge, Peter Dutton’s Coalition is an eerie echo of Trump (and Musk’s) America (www.theguardian.com)

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Despite appointing a shadow minister for government efficiency, Dutton also kept Adelaide Liberal MP James Stevens in his role as the shadow assistant minister for government waste reduction.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Quite possibly.

OTOH, compulsory voting and preferential voting does blunt a significant tactic of the oligarchical right: using adtech data to identify large numbers of individual voters in key electorates and then microtargeting them with tailored advertising/promoted content to encourage them to turn out (if they’re leaning right-wing) or stay home (if they’re progressive). Telling lefties to write “FREE GAZA” on their ballots instead of voting would have a much higher barrier to uptake than telling them not to vote, if that were legal, and those disgusted with Albo’s centrism can put any number of hard-left protest parties in front of him, as long as they put Labor before the Tories.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Telling lefties to write “FREE GAZA” on their ballots instead of voting would have a much higher barrier to uptake than telling them not to vote

I would be interested to know if there are groups more vulnerable to this, and how to reach them. I naïvely hope that people who care about the ongoing genocide or even just progressivism in general would have learned that there are pro-Palestine parties and independents on most ballots.