#ausvotes
I thought I was going mad, nope, there is a FOURTH FUCKING LEADER'S DEBATE.
What kind of stupid shit is this? Why would Dutton agree to that?
Nuclear ground zero. After telling Australians that nuclear energy would solve just about anything & threatening to seize coal power assets, Peter Dutton has avoided his prized 7 reactor sites this campaign. #ausvotes https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/24/exclusion-zones-is-peter-duttons-campaign-avoiding-proposed-nuclear-power-sites
New blog post just out – covering my team's commentary on the #ausvotes 2025 Australian federal election campaign to date (via @360info_global and elsewhere), as well as a few new publications on (destructive) polarisation.
Vote 1 @qutdmrc !
Peter Dutton & the Coalition have no idea what to do. Previous analysis has shown that the activity test contributes to at least 126,000 children from the poorest households across Australia missing out on early childhood education and care. #ausvotes https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/coalition-to-reinstate-punitive-activity-test-for-parents-accessing-childcare/
@DrD none of these are people you’d want to represent you. They shit on the organisation they think gives them kudos.
Imagine how they’d act in government-arrogant, entitled, corrupt.
Lib Canning MP Andrew Hastie, Lib Corangamite candidate Darcy Dunstan & Qld LNP Leichhardt candidate Jeremy Neal continue to campaign in military uniforms. Hastie was sacked from the reserves for it in 2016. ADF respectfully requests they cease. #ausvotes https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/24/military-uniforms-election-campaign-materials-ntwnfb
The weekly #YouGov #poll provides no relief for the #LNP, who are down 2 on the primary vote to 31%, maintaining a descent from 37% in mid-March.
Less than half of this has been gained by #Labor, the latest result having them up half a point to 33%.
#TheGreens are up a point to 14%, while One Nation enjoys a remarkable three-and-a-half point fillip to 10.5% — their best result in any poll since the 2022 election.
https://pca.st/podcast/35903350-25b7-013a-d5f9-0acc26574db2
If you're in #Macnmara, the seat is pretty close to tipping green despite the gigantic cash injection to make gigantic hideous #LNP billboards everywhere.
Do your bit and help dunk them in the green paint. Remember it has to be #Greens 1 as #Labor would rather ensure the #duopoly keeps going than side with the #progressives with which they previously shared similar values.
. Peter Dutton and his Qld LNP dominated Coalition are all over the place on policy. There's little detail and he is flipping from one direction to the other. #ausvotes https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/24/barely-a-week-from-election-day-peter-dutton-still-has-the-air-of-someone-making-it-up-on-the-fly
If you're using your military service to get elected, you don't deserve to be in the military or be elected.
The ADF is pretty clear, don't do it. Unfortunately they can only fire people like Hastie while they're still active service members:
Liberal MPs using military uniforms in election campaign ads despite repeated pleas from defence department
Lest We Forget
Our freedom isn't free.
On #AnzacDay we honour our family, & all brave men & women who served & fought for our future.
#McGowan #WWII #WWI #LestWeForget #anzacday2025 #auspol #Auspol2025 #ausvotes2025 #ausvotes #auspol25 #Election2025
Human Rights Watch has questioned Australia's three major political parties about their positions on a range of human rights and foreign policy issues
It is good to see parties forced to answer questions such as whether they support the use of Magnitsky sanctions against Chinese officials for severe human rights abuses. Mainstream media coverage of the election tends to focus on just a few issues and doesn't ask these type of questions
https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/04/23/australia-parties-address-human-rights-issues
I have made a thread of election scorecards for Australia's federal election. They cover topics including climate, environment, human rights, refugee rights and LGBT rights
