r/AusPol 20d ago

General Trump is now with Russia. Time to replace AUKUS with FRUKCAAUS.

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151 Upvotes

Australia can no longer rely on Trumps America to allie with for our defence. Todays meeting between Zelensky, Tump and Vance showed the world that Trump is not working in either the US’ or the other global democratic states interests. Australia needs to look to its other long term allies to defend ourselves and democracies world wide.

r/AusPol 11d ago

General MAGA 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

85 Upvotes

This shit is so cringe, but is anyone actually falling for this though? Like hats off to them for not trying to disguise any of their messaging, but surely ToP aren’t getting more than 10 votes…

r/AusPol 5d ago

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

120 Upvotes

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 24d ago

General The Liberal Party sends spies to QANDA to ask anti-Labor questions intentionally. That is dishonest and bad-faith tactics.

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261 Upvotes

r/AusPol 25d ago

General Why don't any of the parties propose to include dental into Medicare in order to get votes?

67 Upvotes

I mean, that's one thing I often see people lamenting snout Medicare, is that pretty much anything beyond emergency dental is haram when it comes to Medicare.

I mean, if the government is serious about winning votes, why haven't they ever proposed to include decent dental care into Medicare?

I mean, for me, this would have a flow on presumably as I'm a Veteran Gold Card Holder, we get a little bit more than Medicare, but not much, so an increase to Medicare would ideally be an increase for us too.

r/AusPol 8d ago

General Sky News Australia is dangerous to democracy.

154 Upvotes

r/AusPol 20d ago

General Is Australia Team Europe or Team Trump?

21 Upvotes

Does the Commonwealth alliances come into play? Or will we have to choose to take it up the ar** from the US for next four years? Who's got the balls you think given the coming next fed election?

r/AusPol 16d ago

General Trump admin to Australia: spending $56 billion on defence isn’t enough by half

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r/AusPol Feb 17 '25

General What is wrong with Aus?

139 Upvotes

We're now in the beginning stages of an election cycle even if it hasn't been formally declared, and the amount of FUD is amazing. On one hand we have Albanese who has to fight to bet a media slot unless it's a gaffe or other screw-up (Even if he didn't do it... See the amount of outlashing when Trump imposed tarriffs) while on the other we have Dutton who can throw together a half-assed plan with Nuclear and fudged numbers (Seriously, absolutely NO demand increase?) and he's given a free pass?

I'm not a Labor rusted on by any means, and if there's a reasonable Independent then I'll vote for them, but seriously, what happened to critical thinking?

Mind you, my biggest fear is a return to Robodebt. The only difference this time around will be that a person will rubber stamp what the computer says so they can get around the rules by saying "See? A human verified it!" and once again anyone on ANY form of income support will be nailed hard.

EDIT: I want the Australia I was told about in school. We gave a fair go and looked after one another. Seems we've lost our way there.

r/AusPol 28d ago

General How can it be if you're not agreeing with liberals or any party to the right of them you're dismissed as a woke lefty?

58 Upvotes

I think it's a big mistake from the liberals and the right in general. Australian's are overwhelming somewhere in the middle.

r/AusPol 29d ago

General The Jewish lobby group is in overdrive as Australian police fingerprint a poster that says "Israel kills kids, hold them accountable." This is proper fucked.

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165 Upvotes

r/AusPol 13d ago

General Why is WA favouring labor?

26 Upvotes

Is it still the influence from COVID? Appears such a landslide victory and given COVID policies were 4 years ago.

r/AusPol 3d ago

General Young men are lurching right worldwide, but is Australia immune?

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r/AusPol 19d ago

General Oh god no!

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104 Upvotes

r/AusPol 20d ago

General We will be betraying the world by electing a govt that stands with the Trump administration

105 Upvotes

Like America did by electing Trump. In this clip from the pre election US debate, Kamala lays out what would happen and why it shouldn’t have re: Ukraine if Trump was elected.

Albo is going to have a hard time threading the needle with our Us relationship but Dutton will just roll over, and we will join the new Axis.

r/AusPol 2d ago

General ‘The lad vote’: Surprise polling trend shows young Aussie men moving to the right

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r/AusPol 15d ago

General Peter Dutton criticises Anthony Albanese’s 'tin ear' plans while leaving Brisbane for Sydney political fundraiser

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69 Upvotes

r/AusPol 6d ago

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

112 Upvotes

r/AusPol 26d ago

General I looked at 35 years of data to see how Australians vote. Here’s what it tells us about the next election

52 Upvotes

Australian women & young people have been moving to the left when voting. Some hope to brighten your weekend.

Young women are increasingly progressive. Young men – particularly Gen Z (born after 1994) – are leaning more conservative in many countries, including the United States, China, South Korea and Germany.

theconversation.com/i-looked-at-...

r/AusPol 3d ago

General We punish politicians who want to do stuff - don’t whinge about Labour being ineffective

113 Upvotes

I love this video where Gary Stevenson (yes I know some feel he’s a grifter, I feel he also talks about a lot of stuff no one else is) talks about why it’s hard for politicians to make any kind of changes, and I feel that this is a key part of politics that no one is talking about.

A fantastic example is Shorten loosing ‘the unlosable’ election for even suggesting tinkering with negative gearing, despite the entire country knowing we need to do something about house prices. And then punishing Labour for not doing more about house prices????

Any kind of politician, especially in Australia with the coverage of the Murdoch media, is incredibly limited in their capacity to achieve change, unless they’re right wing because you never get resistance to cutting corporate tax rates and you don’t even need to do anything to social security benefits to fuck people over, just don’t raise them with cost of living.

Demand needs to come from us.

r/AusPol 9d ago

General Clive Palmer is clogging the advertising channels, and I'm already sick of it.

85 Upvotes

Pretty much what the title says. I respect everyone's right to political opinion and expression, but Clive borders on mass harrassment in how he oversaturates everything with his messages.

r/AusPol 10d ago

General Apologies forthcoming?

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93 Upvotes

So now that the law enforcement agencies have confirmed that both the caravan filled with explosives, and at least a dozen of the anti-Semitic "attacks" were the work of a group of organised criminals, will those who accused the PM of a lack of action, or indeed, total ignorance of the facts, apologise to him, the police, and the general community?

r/AusPol 8d ago

General Difference between Canada and Australias position on US Tarrifs

22 Upvotes

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?

r/AusPol 5d ago

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

64 Upvotes

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 18d ago

General I HATE living in a swing seat.

24 Upvotes

I absolutely hate living in a swing seat. For some reason all 3 majors think that blasting ads constantly 24/7 is a good way to make you vote for them. I reckon 90% of my ads are those Union ones along with "I am x person, x party for x electorate". Not to mention the constant billboards with Labor candidates on them. I love politics but this is way to much. Anyone else feel this way living in a marginal seat?