Peter Dutton to leave Coalition leaderless, conceding he has lost his seat of Dickson - eviltoast
Peter Dutton concedes he has lost his seat of Dickson
www.abc.net.au
The leader of the Liberal Party, Peter Dutton, concedes he has lost his own seat of Dickson in Queensland. His loss leaves the Coalition without its leader in a defeat that represents a disaster for the party.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29061644

We’ve done it, we got rid of another soulless right wing politician!

Peter Dutton first made his party lose this election and now also lost his own seat much like Pierre Pullover

We’ve still got a government that green-lit new coal power plants in it’s last term, screwed over the Aboriginal community with a poorly run referendum, and still doesn’t give a shit about climate change, but baby steps hey.

  • kingofras@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    9·
    5 days ago

    Not sure. I can see them go full Trump and get aligned with our extreme right wing parties and billionaires and make their own truth social and just double down hard calling it a hoax. All the flooding is just weather engineering with chemtrails, didn’t you know?

    • Ilandar@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      4 days ago

      I can see them go full Trump and get aligned with our extreme right wing parties and billionaires and make their own truth social and just double down hard calling it a hoax.

      They might do that but it would mean political extinction. The Liberals simply cannot form government through appealing to fringes on the right, it just doesn’t work like that in Australia with compulsory voting. At this election there was literally a Trump party running in every seat, funded by a billionaire who was spending insane amounts of money (as he has done in previous cycles). He gained absolutely nothing and actually went backwards.

    • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      7·
      5 days ago

      That seems unlikely based on last night’s outcome.

      Trumpism has a stink on it.

      Dutton was trotting out some Trump rhetoric in the last 2 weeks and Australian voters have issued an emphatic, resounding rejection.

      I expect a reformed liberal party will go back to their roots of fiscal and social conservatism, but do anything to avoid the culture war.

        • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          9 hours ago

          I’m not sure that’s the right message to take away from what’s happened.

          Rejecting Dutton because he was stoking the culture war from the conservative end, does not mean that the electorate will embrace a leader who stokes the culture war from the progressive end.

          For example, the voice to parliament was part of the culture war, and it failed spectacularly for Labor. They were lucky to recover really.

          That’s not to say the electorate doesn’t want trans rights, but voters do want someone who’s going to address the bread and butter problems they’re facing.