Can someone explain Australian parties to me? (fedia.io)

submitted 3 days ago by atro_city@fedia.io to c/australia@aussie.zone

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Y'all have first past the post / winner takes all, don't you? There was a vote recently and "labor" won from what I'm reading?

Labor, coalition, independents, etc. what kinds of parties are these? I thought Albanese was a "cunt" yet his party seems to have won again? What's going on?

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[-] Mountaineer@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

Back in 1909 The Protectionist Party and Anti-Socialist Party put aside their differences to take on the Labor party, which was seen as Socialist.
The founders wanted freedom (Liberty) from what they saw as Labour Union dominion.

Funnily enough, an actual Libertarian party has since popped up and the Liberals challenged their name with the AEC, which as I said is funny because the Electoral Commision correctly pointed out that if ANYBODY has an incorrect name, it's the Liberals.

[-] abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us 2 points 1 day ago

Hey, that's pretty cool (re: Libertarian Party of Australia and the AEC comment)

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