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SYDNEY, April 28 (Reuters) - In the well-heeled Sydney beachside suburb of Bondi Junction, early voters leaving a pre-poll centre said they had Donald Trump and the global economy on their mind.

Australia holds a national election on Saturday, and a campaign coinciding with the U.S. president's stop-start tariffs and volatile diplomacy is bolstering the prospects of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his ruling centre-left Labor Party.

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[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Labor help Peter by playing the pawl.

[–] Aussieiuszko@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Mate . . . We don’t have a 2 party system.

Leave the seppo propaganda at home.

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Where, precisely, does my post claim .au has a 2 party system?

It’s an illustration of how the 2 major parties have functioned in lock-step to move the Overton Window rightward here for last decade or two of the previous century, and the entirety of this one.

We’re lucky to have an electoral system which permits nuanced preferences to be meaningfully counted. We don’t need to blindly accept the dimmer of two incendiary forces.

[–] Aussieiuszko@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

The word immediately preceding the underlined section is fake, it’s a specious concept with the electoral system currently used federally in Australia.

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