Centre-to-right major party. Labor haven't been left since the 70s with their embrace of neoliberal policies. The unions and workers have basically no influence on the party over the big business side now.
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Australian Conservative Party, The Nationals, Announce they are Leaving the Coalition.
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They're called the Liberals, because that's what liberalism is. Americans might better know this as classic liberalism, but the rest of the world knows it as liberalism.
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Taiwan president calls for peace and dialogue with China amid heightened military activity
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Australia is 22 weeks at minimum wage by the government. Most businesses also offer an additional 12 weeks at full wage. You can take up to a year off without your employer being able to take issue.
Not that strange. The Australian military is more powerful, and due to our proximity and history makes it a good fit for helping defend PNG.
Plus I suspect our wages are higher, leading to more money going to Papuans.
Maccas with a hard r? Where are you from?
Planet Ark has been advocating for recycling across Australia since 1991.
Isn’t recycling basically a scam to keep us using plastics?
We don’t need to bring it back, because it never left. We still celebrate it every year in March.
If Australia had invented Christmas, I’d be in favour of us changing the date to one that relates to our accomplishment as well.
On 21 April 1856, Australian stonemasons in Victoria undertook a mass stoppage as part of the eight-hour workday movement.[15] It became a yearly commemoration, inspiring American workers to have their first stoppage.[16] 1 May was chosen to be International Workers' Day to commemorate the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago.[17] In that year beginning on 1 May, there was a general strike for the eight-hour workday
Oh yeah, we're basically tram capital of the world.
Labour Day was in March.
Why celebrate a later American workers event when we are the home of the 8 hour work week.
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I doubt much will change. Much the same as the Greens funnel into Lab, Nat votes and support will still go to Lib.
There's very little to reach across the aisle with in terms of policy or party support. Unless Lab look at dropping Greens and trying to pick up Nats, which well they're politically not that unaligned.