Great News

[pink]

For anyone who hasn't heard the news yet.....Australia went exactly the same way as Canada in our elections that were held yesterday. The leader of the conservative party (Peter Dutton) lost his seat. The Labor Party won in a landslide. We are now going to govern with a majority government which has totally denounced Trump. A major contributing factor towards Dutton's demise, they started using the terms "woke", "DOGE" and MAGA.

[SheltieLover]

1. This is great news

But I'd be lying if I said I wasn't hoping for an obit.

Great job Canada & Australia!

[Skittles]

2. seems like Canada and Australia learned from America's mistake

yes indeed

[BadgerMom]

9. Although Britain and France voted before we did

and we failed to follow their lead. I hope it’s untrue, but we may be uniquely ignorant.

[canetoad]

27. Call me kooky

But I'll never believe trump won that election fair and square.

[BadgerMom]

28. Canetoad, I hear you.

[yliza]

18. Better than the great victory here in Canada

Poilievre lost his seat in Ontario but an MP in Alberta is giving up his seat so that Pollievre can stay in parliament and retain the leadership of the UCP (there will have to be a byelection first but: 1) Pollievre is from Alberta, and 2) Alberta is the Texas of Canada, so he’s probably a shoo-in), so we’re not rid of the smarmy jerk yet. Plus, the Liberals didn’t win a majority, and the UCP actually has more seats now than before the election. They lost but they are emboldened. We dodged a bullet but divisive conservative politics in Canada is not dead.

[rurallib]

3. Conservatives call for by-election in safe seat in Alberta for Poilievre

I know in Canada you don't have to live in a riding to be an MP from there but this is kind of ridiculous
video is 2 minutes:

?si=wXId4_Y4lm18Qpn8

[yliza]

19. I just commented on this above (post #18)

I’m still worried. I was hoping that that brand of politics would be dead here after the election but apparently not.

[central scrutinizer]

4. Australia requires voting, right?

If Americans were required to vote, enough of the lazy, the blasé, etc. would take it seriously and we wouldn’t be in this mess.

[pink]

12. I don't like to brag but.....

Australia has always had compulsory voting. It is made easy to do by having our elections on a Saturday, with early voting from approximately 2 weeks before. It is usually a fun day on election day by having at most polling booths a barbecue going where voters can buy a democracy sausage with mostly friendly banter. We have a totally independent election referee who deals with discrepancies (Australian Electoral Commission). They also are the ones that draw up the boundaries.

I have volunteered on the polling booths for about 50 years and have enjoyed the experience immensely.

We are very proud of our system and hope it never changes.

[Deuxcents]

17. Those are bragging rights! I'd love for a system like what you have.

Don’t know why we’re so far behind other democracies..gotta be the Citizens United fiasco but big money has been the problem for a long time here.

[pink]

25. We still have some problems with donations

but not to the extent that US has.

[pnwest]

5. YAY Australia!

Canada and Australia are giving me hope.

[senseandsensibility]

6. Seems like these other countries are smart enough

to see what's in front of their noses and adjust their behavior accordingly. I'm jealous.

[Celerity]

33. Nigel Farage's Reform Party wins Runcorn byelection by just six votes in blow to Labour

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220288047

[MLAA]

7. Congrats!

[iluvtennis]

8. Very cool 😎. Congrats. n/t

[StarryNite]

10. Most excellent!

[BComplex]

11. Truth is, we voted against trump, too, but he told us that Elon stole it for him.

And NOBODY has done shit about it!

[Clouds Passing]

23. Truth is.......for sure!

[stillcool]

13. Congrats! Hold on tight.

[IbogaProject]

14. MAGA !!!

Making Australia Great Always !!!
Good news.

[AntiFascist]

15. And now Trump announces that he wants to be Pope...

hopefully that that will throw the pope's election farther to the left than Pope Francis!

[Brother Buzz]

16. Everything the marmalade shartcannon touches turns to shit

I know you already knew that, but I just love trying marmalade shartcannon.

[Cha]

20. That is Brilliant News!

Mahalo, pink!🕊️🕯️🌻🌈🇨🇦🍁💙

[ananda]

21. Wonderful!

Congrats!

[canetoad]

22. I'd love to be

A fly on the wall at the first meeting between PMs Carney and Albanese! I reckon the tariffs did it.

[0rganism]

24. America now stands bravely as a warning to other democracies

We may fall but other democracies can still flourish elsewhere.

[ShazzieB]

26. Excellent!

[Aussie105]

29. Wife and I voted in the Australian Federal election yesterday.

You're welcome!

Vote counting is still ongoing, so the final number of bums on seats in the various houses of parliament aren't yet available, but it was within 3 hours of the last poll stations closing that it became obvious this was going to be a landslide defeat for the opposition party.

Whatever helped Trump's campaign to poison the minds of voters in America, the same approach seems to be the kiss of death elsewhere in the world.

There will be flow on effects.
Rejection of Trumpism is one thing, a moral victory.
China looking for increasing traffic with trading partners where tariffs don't apply, is quite another.

[Takket]

30. as an American, i'm honestly blown away by societies that reject facism and people trying to use nonsense like "woke"

to get elected.

Not something we're used to here anymore

[Blue Owl]

31. I wonder if Canada and Australia had the same percentage of non-voters as the USA

[Celerity]

32. voting is compulsory in Australia

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx20gy2lz4go

[ECL213]

34. If only we cared about democracy as much.

[UTUSN]

35. K&R!!++!++