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Who was our best Prime Minister and why?

Honestly, they should be. Even their rank and file members have been betrayed. As for supporters, the CFMEU fiasco gave many people in my union's chat rooms cold feet, with the pro-Labor peeps in disbelief they would do what they have, and that's on top of the Party's active complicity in the Middle East conflict. Labor have mirrored the US Democrat Party in many clear ways. The main difference I see in the situation is that is much easier for Australia to swing left instead of right, since we don't have the same FPTP spoiler effect in our federal voting system, so they can't just fearmonger over the Coalition to scare the socdems and socialists into joining them.

It will be interesting to see how the Victorian council elections pan out as a litmus test, interestingly in NSW council elections the Labor Party lost 26 seats, with the Greens gaining 8. That's just surface level looking at numbers but its enough for me to wonder if Federal Labor are worried.

Well that's some bad news. A lot of my favourite TV shows are local, and it's not even because of the familiarity or locality. We have an excellent culture of satire and often veer away from the lowest-common-denominator style of entertainment we get with most of the documentaries we import and the reality shows we duplicate from overseas.

My friend (HIGHLY REPUTABLE) who has links with the secret alien research wing of CSIRO told me they're voting on whether to eject themselves from the solar system. Most Important Election of their Lives!

This is clearly a conspiracy to distract from the upcoming Mauritian general election. Don't be fooled, sheeple!!1

It’s illegal to support a terrorist organisation, not to support Palestine/Lebanon etc. those are two different things, cheers.

Yes, they're two different things. I brought it up because there are plenty of people there too who are openly in defense of Hamas and Hezbollah, even handing out pamphlets in support of them. The only real legal suppression I'm aware of is over people flying Hezbollah flags in the past month (the symbolism you mention).

The law is tricky but basically either pushing for terrorist acts, or displaying designated terrorist symbolism, or provide support to a terrorist organisation.

Which are not particularly relevant to the situation of aussie.zone federating with lemmy.ml. Them writing posts which side with Hamas or Hezbollah isn't violating those laws.

Condorcet

Nice.

edit: for those who aren't aware

So supporting terrorist organisations isn’t against australian law? Hamas is designated as a terrorist organisation and advocating for them is therefore banned under australian law.

Hi! I go to pro-Palestine/Lebanon/etc. protests on the weekends here (among other things) and can confirm for you that publicly declaring approval of designated national enemies is not illegal. It would be pretty absurd for a liberal democracy like Australia to do so. Please don't invent laws to pressure our admins.

Don't be an ignorant troll, comrade. That's clearly not what they were talking about.

Yeah, dismal job from the ABC this time. If you want a better account with quotes, there was one shared here.

it seems to just be a constant drama among everyone, is it not?

Correct, it is not. That isn't close to constant nor everyone.

i want to block the whole instance

See instructions from our admin here: https://aussie.zone/comment/13007067

The thousands of users necessarily affected are far more important than up to five admins being hypocrites and jerks when it comes to specific political topics.

Ultimately I think aussie.zone users should be the most serious consideration, and as admin Nath said, users here who disapprove can easily block their admins or their instance at will.