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Australia is very limited in how it can move away from America, because the Coalition enthusiastically sells us out to them any chance they can get.
Albanese, by repairing our relationship with China, is putting us on the right track. He can't get out of AUKUS and there may even be advantages to that such as giving Albanese Trump's ear and allowing him to potentially stop a war with China. I don't pay enough attention to what Albanese is doing behind the scenes to strengthen Australia's sovereignty.
You're technically correct. I assumed this one amendment was passed in February and was to correct a typo, but looking closer it was in September. Still, this amendment was to basically move forward a report on the outcomes. I wouldn't call that greatly improved, hell I'd say it makes it worse since it will turn the HAFF into a political football when the report shows barely any improvements due to the delays caused by the Greens (6 months + uncertainty) and the long-term nature of the HAFF.
The HAFF was passed unamended after being delayed for 6 months, and the actual housing it was supposed to build was delayed further by the uncertainty. The Greens blocked it with ridiculous demands like increasing the funding to address housing stress instead of the homelessness it was supposed to, an unconstitutional national rent-freeze, or reforms to capital gains and negative gearing that lost Labor two elections before they promised not to change it.
The Greens see Labor's pragmatism as evil. They see Labor as fundamentally evil just like the LNP.
As for Palestine. Yes it was popular and yes it was just symbolic, but it has the potential to piss off the Americans and doing that consumes a lot of domestic political capital (because of American influence in Australia). Australia is more subordinate to America than most thanks to the LNP being willing and eager to sell out our sovereignty, we can't really break rank alone on Israel, never mind how many time's Labor has had to publicly condemn Hamas making cutting off military aid to Israel a domestic political nightmare.
Once Ireland stops arms trade with Israel, then Australia could plausibly consider doing it. Until then it would 100% get Labor couped.
I wouldn't call the senate "extremely" friendly. I wouldn't even call it "friendly" after the HAFF.
As for the rest, I think recognizing Palestine took up far more political capital than you think. The Americans OWN us, and have a history of couping Labor leaders that step out of line even for minor transgressions.
The idea is to make it seem like they're doing nothing, doesn't matter whether that's from a progressive or conservative perspective. Take for example how the press basically ignored all the good Queensland Labor managed to do before they were ousted.
If someone's views are hostile to a minority, even if they're not hatred-driven, they should NOT express them publicly. There are plenty of private channels to reach out to politicians that won't intimidate a vulnerable group. The mere act of expressing these anti-immigration views publicly is itself unacceptable.
Was enough to get her couped with a fake corruption scandal plastered all over the press. What are you expecting exactly, Whitlam levels of boldness?
Not a carbon tax.
Doesn't matter. You can say all you want that it's a lie to call it a "carbon tax" but does anyone in Australia know it by a different name?
It lasted only a few years because the Government lost at the next election.
If Rudd had ... instead of ... that brought down both his and Gillard’s Governments.
Gillard was polling abysmally before Rudd took over. She was a terrible prime minster who nobody liked.
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If this is real, it is straight-up totalitarian.