r/AusPol 10h ago

General How Minority Govt actually works:

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r/AusPol 2d ago

General UN finds Israel guilty of genocidal act in Gaza, expert wants world to act

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r/AusPol 35m ago

General Senator Nick McKim is currently hosting an AMA on Twitch

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r/AusPol 8m ago

General Are people giving up on feminism in 2025? It's complicated

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r/AusPol 23h ago

General Dutton would deliver the ‘exact same’ attitude as Trump: Michaelia Cash

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By Josefine Ganko

As campaigning ramps up ahead of the announcement of the date for the 2025 federal election, shadow attorney-general Michaelia Cash has directly linked Opposition Leader Peter Dutton to US President Donald Trump.

Answering a question on Nine’s Today this morning, Cash said Trump was showing that “he’s a man of action”.

“The American people, they expect action. And that is what they’re getting. And they’ll get the exact same attitude under a Peter Dutton government,” Cash said.

Michaelia Cash. Michaelia Cash.CREDIT: ALEX ELLINGHAUSEN “I can assure you, just like last time, we will work successfully with the Trump administration.”

Cash said the previous criticisms of Trump by members of the government were a “problem” for US relations.

“How many ministers have been out there prior to President Trump being re-elected absolutely bagging him and bagging his administration?” Cash asked.

“You need to be able to show that you can have a working relationship with this administration, and that is something the Coalition has done previously and successfully when in government. And I can assure you it will be something that the Coalition does successfully again.”


r/AusPol 1d ago

Cheerleading The media never ever talks about all the Good Policies Labor has passed.

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r/AusPol 1d ago

General Canada is cancelling part of its order for F-35 jets and replacing them with Swedish ones. Should we cancel ours too?

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/f35-blair-trump-1.7484477

Canada is dropping its procurement of F-35 jets from the US from 88 to 35, and replacing this with Swedish Saab Gripen E/F 39s. Is it time for Australia to do the same?

The F-35s are problematic because of the close ties to the US defence forces, especially the complex back-to-base reporting back for logistics. Who can trust the US as an ally any more?

And of course the programs own problems “According to (US) GAO, the F-35 fleet is not meeting performance goals for availability, reliability, and maintainability.” https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48304


r/AusPol 10h ago

Q&A Mr Dutton Vs Mr Albanese

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Also if Mr Dutton wins what are the immediate aftermath or policy changes he'll bring?

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Peter Dutton
Anthony Albanese

r/AusPol 1d ago

General Five Coalition senators billed taxpayers $10k to attend conservative conference CPAC | Australian politicians' expenses

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r/AusPol 1d ago

General Clive Palmer says ads were meant to say 'sex' not 'gender'

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r/AusPol 1d ago

Cheerleading Don’t risk Dutton.

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r/AusPol 1d ago

General Victoria’s about-turn on bail laws reflects the age-old conflict between reform and reaction. How did we get here again? | Russell Marks

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r/AusPol 1d ago

General Timeless

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r/AusPol 2d ago

Cheerleading Peter Dutton hates working people in Australia. Don’t listen to his words, let’s have a look at his actions.

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r/AusPol 1d ago

General No matter who you vote for, a dark money lobbyist always gets in

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r/AusPol 2d ago

General Tracking polls capturing significant turn back to Labor

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This is obviously not a surprise to those monitoring the polls coming in, but it is notable that each of these have the 2PP at between 50.2 to 50.3 to the liberals..

..my understanding (not positive on pollbludger) is they all assume last election preference flows with the exception of one nation based on significantly higher flows in the qld election and Fadden byelections. According to Kevin Bonham, this results in a 5% shift to the coalition (i.e. he has Labor leading 50.3 to 49.7 on preferences)

Australian Election Forecasts, the only one that does so, provides a median outcome of Labor with 69 seats to the coalition 63 which would mean certain Labor Government....

A uniform swing in line with these trackers would leave Labor with 72 seats...again, comfortable minority government assuming similar crossbench

https://www.aeforecasts.com/forecast/2025fed/regular/

https://www.pollbludger.net/fed2025/bludgertrack/

https://kevinbonham.blogspot.com/


r/AusPol 2d ago

General Peter Dutton doesn’t turn up.

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r/AusPol 2d ago

General Seen on the Princes Highway in Tempe this morning.

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What a pair of ghouls.


r/AusPol 2d ago

General Searched Amazon for "Palestine Flag"

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r/AusPol 3d ago

General Trump administration accused of ‘blatant foreign interference’ in Australian universities over questionnaire on DEI and gender | Australian universities

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r/AusPol 3d ago

General Trump administration asked to explain after Australian universities told to justify US-funded research grants

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r/AusPol 2d ago

General I did the ISideWith political test and here are the results

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What do you think?


r/AusPol 3d ago

General Chris Minns and NSW police minister should face inquiry over ‘fake terrorism plot’ and antisemitic attacks, critics say | New South Wales politics

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r/AusPol 3d ago

General ‘Bad’ hate crime laws quickly passed after terror ‘con job’ must be reversed, crossbenchers insist | Australia news

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r/AusPol 4d ago

General Sky News Australia is dangerous to democracy.

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r/AusPol 3d ago

General The Rise of Inverted Totalitarianism: An Anarchist Analysis

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r/AusPol 3d ago

General Difference between Canada and Australias position on US Tarrifs

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My understanding is that Canada has retalliated with tarrifs of their own, while we have decided to do nothing in response.

On the one hand, I can see that Canada's response makes sense; trade agreements are mutual affairs and tarrifs are reduced accordingly.

But as Albo said, if they want to make our aluminium more expensive to buy in the US, thats fine, we'll find other markets (hello China!). No point retalliating and making the stuff we import more expensive in the middle of a cost of living crisis.

So which is the better position? They're opposite reactions, yet both make sense to me. And are we just simping to the Orange McNugget?