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[–] 4 points 9 hours ago

I don't get the hate for Wong?

I understand that labor is not left enough for fediverse users.

She's a diplomat though, she represents Australia to the world. It's not her job to say mean things to the people you don't like.

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  • [–] 5 points 13 hours ago

    Mr Rubio said the administration had been pressing more countries to "join our campaign by ending their funding and participation in this politicised and unaccountable court" — something that Australia would not do.

    At least not until Israel tells us to.

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  • [–] 22 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

    Penny Wong will watch the U.S. crush the ICC while uttering the quietest "don't" as they do. She is a coward and this is heartbreakingly unsurprising.

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  • [–] 8 points 13 hours ago (1 child)

    Just for reference to other countries-

    Penny Wong voted against gay marriage multiple times. She is a lesbian and took advantage of our Gay Marriage laws the second they were introduced (long story short- we have Goldman Sachs to thank for those laws, yes really...) but voted against them multiple times.

    Spineless doesn't even begin to cover it.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 hours ago (1 child)

    It seems that claim is not really true:

    https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/sa/penny_wong/policies/1

    Besides which, do you want politicians to vote according bro their constituents wishes or according to their own interests?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

    That's very specifically only counting after Malcolm Turnbull introduced the vote to parliament and forced both Labor and Liberals hands.

    Besides which, do you want politicians to vote according bro their constituents wishes or according to their own interests?

    The constituency was in full support of Gay Marriage, Penny ignored it for years since Labor is at their heart, the Catholic party.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

    LOL.

    It's the way I say it is because reasons and any contrary information is a fabrication.

    Indeed.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 hours ago

    Look at the votes, everything after 2016, she was there and voted Yes, before that she was absent every single vote and her party that was present voted 100% No.

    It's well known here that Labor are spineless.

    Vote Greens. The party that voted 100% YES in every division.

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  • [–] 6 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

    The entire Labor Party are spineless

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  • [–] 3 points 14 hours ago (1 child)

    Yep, it’s why I’ve been voting Green and Senators to either block dogshit or pass decent stuff

    Unfortunately things overseas dictated our last election and gave Labor a huge majority. It’s shallow though.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 hours ago*

    Oh fuck off. We got away from bigoted crap in the Liberals. We still need to keep that festering mess out.

    A massive backlash against Trump shit is a good thing. Dont try to spin this to some idiotic conclusionm

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  • [–] 0 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

    As a diplomat, how would you like Wong to address this?

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  • [–] 15 points 18 hours ago (1 child)

    Tell Trump he's not a member. More like a target.

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  • [–] 3 points 13 hours ago (1 child)

    Penny could alleviate her RSI by making a macro to paste the words 'gravely concerned' into her letters.

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  • [–] 8 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 23 minutes ago) (1 child)

    I hope they keep this energy up when someone else is in power.

    If the US is gonna be the world police they should be extra subject to the rule of law, just like the local police.*

    *Offer void in US

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  • [–] -2 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

    save the outrage Australia, you're only a Vegemite higher than the US.

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  • [–] 5 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

    Not even, we can’t be a Vegemite higher if we’re lapdogging

    It’s a national embarrassment.

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  • [–] 4 points 13 hours ago (1 child)

    We can't really do much else unless we want to start spending 25billion+ per year on a completely independent defense apparatus.

    Unlike Canada who has NATO to fall back on, we have no one. We're not and won't ever be part of NATO (due to France).

    Though right now is probably the best time to restart 'SEATO' - Japan wants slight separation from US and South Korea is now moving full speed toward it. There has never been a better time for us to start an alliance with a view of becoming less dependent on USA.

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