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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Its funny for me being from america. Labor sounds so much like it should be left wing. Although they might be relative to our crazy right leaning everything.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

At one point they were left and most of the great things we have in this country are from that time.

But an absolute shit cunt of a man named Bob Hawke decided 80s neoliberalism was the way forward and both parties have happily been selling off the country together ever since.

[–] Mountaineer 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Labor is just a little right.
Our other major party, who are far more to the right call themselves the "Liberals".
When a new minor party started calling themselves the "Liberal Democrats" (espousing Libertarian values), the Liberals complained to the Australian Electoral Commission (who are in charge of running elections) that the Liberal Democrats were deliberately trying to cause brand confusion, they were promptly told that the Liberal Democrats name was far closer to the actual meaning of the words.
It's all a bit of a farse.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The LibDems are just Liberals who want to smoke weed.

Same shit.

[–] Mountaineer 1 points 2 years ago

And deregulate everything, and reduce funding to schools and hospitals...

Same shit.

Indeed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Your left wing is WAY more conservative then out right wing… and our right wing is pretty out there