Less than 5mins long, Shoebridge explains and puts in a nutshell where we are now (and where that will take us) and what we need to do for a decent future.

Let’s get active!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOwZQOZKvQo

  • Ilandar@lemmy.today
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    22 days ago

    Surely you’re not surprised, though? One Nation’s biggest rallying cry is “blame immigrants and non-whites for everything”. People who consider voting for a party that espouses that ideology were never going to support The Greens.

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      21 days ago

      That is a majority stake in what they sell, but you can’t go past the fact they also sell easy solutions to complex problems, combined with a lot of outright lies. I think that there is also so many punitive measures for people that at already struggling economically, who are there through no fault of their own - that a portion of the One Nation vote are just happy to burn it all down, cause they can’t see how it could be worse for them.

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        22 days ago

        Well it does say something very sad about Australians, unfortunately. Nothing we didn’t already suspect, so in that sense I appreciate that the mask is finally off and people are being honest about how awful they actually are.