32
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 03 May 2025
32 points (100.0% liked)
Australia
4162 readers
25 users here now
A place to discuss Australia and important Australian issues.
Before you post:
If you're posting anything related to:
- The Environment, post it to Aussie Environment
- Politics, post it to Australian Politics
- World News/Events, post it to World News
- A question to Australians (from outside) post it to Ask an Australian
If you're posting Australian News (not opinion or discussion pieces) post it to Australian News
Rules
This community is run under the rules of aussie.zone. In addition to those rules:
- When posting news articles use the source headline and place your commentary in a separate comment
Banner Photo
Congratulations to @Tau@aussie.zone who had the most upvoted submission to our banner photo competition
Recommended and Related Communities
Be sure to check out and subscribe to our related communities on aussie.zone:
- Australian News
- World News (from an Australian Perspective)
- Australian Politics
- Aussie Environment
- Ask an Australian
- AusFinance
- Pictures
- AusLegal
- Aussie Frugal Living
- Cars (Australia)
- Coffee
- Chat
- Aussie Zone Meta
- bapcsalesaustralia
- Food Australia
- Aussie Memes
Plus other communities for sport and major cities.
https://aussie.zone/communities
Moderation
Since Kbin doesn't show Lemmy Moderators, I'll list them here. Also note that Kbin does not distinguish moderator comments.
Additionally, we have our instance admins: @lodion@aussie.zone and @Nath@aussie.zone
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Labour is a centrist party that historically emerged from the union movement. They occupy a center-right to center-left position.
The Liberal/National Coalition is right to far right, though they used to have a center right wing ("wets"). The liberal party mostly represent the interests of the rich and business - liberal as in laissez faire, not liberal in the US sense. The nationals have historically represented the interests of farmers and rural communities.
Independents are representatives without a party allegiance. When your electoral system is designed to reflect the will of the people - ie it's not first past the post - you can have independents or minor parties.
Labor, not Labour
I'm curious as to why this is. I thought Australian English used labour as the spelling of the word while labor was only in US english. See https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/employment-and-unemployment/labour-force-australia/latest-release for an example of a government website using the alternate spelling.
There’s an entire section of the ALP Wikipedia page that explains it.
Thanks for the tip! It does explain it quite well. I have more questions - but also, since it's from the earlier part of the 20th century, likely only a professional historian would know some of these answers....