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Sat May 3, 2025, 02:40 PM May 3

MAGAGEDDON in Australia. RW politics plummets and burns like the Hindenburg [View all]

After trailing in the polls throughout 2024, the center-left Australian Labor Government has been re-elected in a landslide.

The center-right opposition were so confident of winning, they decided to spice up their campaign with some MAGA manure, promising-

• to establish a Ministry of Government Efficiency

• mass sacking of civil servants

• ending work from home for all government employees

• ‘rooting out’ ‘woke’ from schools by withholding funding

• ending incentives for renewables and EVs

• banning recognition of indigenous peoples (a welcome to country) from major public events

all the while protesting it had nothing to do with Trump. It didn’t help that their would be Minister for Government Efficiency was photographed wearing a MAGA hat, while putting a Trump ornament on her Christmas tree.

The result? The conservatives suffered their biggest defeat since WWII, and like Pierre Poilievre, the opposition leader Peter Dutton lost his seat (which he had held for 20 years.)

Oh the humanity!

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