Hanson takes the stage as Chalmers's budget woes roll on
By Michelle Grattan
While Labor is increasingly concerned about the long-term threat of One Nation, this week its attention was squarely on more immediate problems.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-05/pauline-hanson-labor-one-nation-national-press-club/106743882
#FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #OneNation #PoliticalParties #FederalParliament #ALP #MinorParties #MichelleGrattan
Victoria will be Labor's first real One Nation electoral test
By Clare Armstrong
The One Nation leader, whose popularity has soared in the past 12 months, would be the first to say she doesn’t put too much stock in the numbers.
#GovernmentandPolitics #OneNation #AustralianFederalElections #PoliticalParties #Elections #FederalParliament #FederalGovernment #CommunityandSociety #MinorParties #ALP #ClareArmstrong
THE MAGIC of #PreferentialVoting.
Australia has preferential voting so a person can make their #vote transfer to another candidate at FULL VALUE.
We just tallied quotas of minor parties that were good enough to be placed ahead of #majorParties and Greens.
The quota was exceeded in EVERY state!
So if everyone who voted for quality #minorParties numbered as many quality parties as they could, we'd have 12 #independent minorParty #Senate member in parliment.
Your preferences matter!
Talking about an #election in #Australia to imply the existence of a functional #democracy.
Our favourite part is counting the number of #minorParty websites mysteriously going through #CloudFlare and other #technoFascist services.
#algorithmicCampaigning #pr #fauxDemocracy #electionMedding #foreignInterference #moneyPrinterGoDrr #minorParties
Most #Australians remember the frenzied cacophony of #legacyMedia hacks that emerged from the election of Ricky Muir.
So-called "progressive" outlets lampooned our democratic process that ensured votes for #minorParties were never wasted (unlike in the #USA). A process that enabled people like the once-relevant #NickXenophon to get elected.
They #engineeredConsent to change our #votingSystem, at every opportunity demonising the workingClass senator.
Maybe if he called himself 'Richard'???
WARNING: #Elections in #SouthAustralia rigged against #minorParties.
They've had 4 yrs to fix this. Noone at the #ElectoralCommision (#ECSA) has fixed #misleading instructions that caused 70,000 #votes for minorParties to be binned.
If you vote for a #minorParty you *must* number as many above-the-line as possible. Following their top instruction and numbering one party, means your vote is #wasted if that party doesn't get in.
Govts in #Australia quietly abolished #PartyPreferences #post2016.
@jiaming
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Remembering when our land title registries were not leased out to banksters for 99 years (pre 2017).
Remembering when we could easily vote for a minor party because all parties needed to disclose a full voting preferences, and #minorParties were not served by dotCon artists.
For many pushed into #highrise, remember #backyards to grow and eat food, play, practice, restore.
@arh
Does #Iran have minor parties?
Even if they don't have #minorParties, they are still doing better than the USA the USA don't really do minor parties, and they have 330 million people and military bases #sharted across the globe, so…
(We meant #scattered but #autocorrect has greater poetic license than us apparently.)
@human_dude
Good thought. Keep in mind that producers in the #corporateMedia in #Australia are known to pull (read:#censor) #commercials and #messages of #minorParties, citing "#QualityConcerns"
#Murdoch #reporters have been completely #corrupted by #bigRealEstate, #mining, #insurance interests, who buy a lot of #advertising due to #artificiallyInflated #assetPrices.
Building an #alternativeMedia is important.
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