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.

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    92·
    3 days ago

    Hopefully more like Cold War II. And honestly, Australia’s in a pickle there - most other democracies are pretty damn far away from it. They might try to do the Finland thing instead.

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        31·
        3 days ago

        The way you phrased that makes it sound like there’s something I should personally do to make sure an inevitable conflict stays cold. If you have an idea, I’m all ears.

        Anyway, hopefully Canada will open up asylum to Americans soon, in case things get really bad.

        • Zippygutterslug@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          I really hope they do, but I feel like nobody is going to take American refugees until mass atrocities are well underway

          • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            Hey, we took in your draft dodgers. The main thing would be to not mess up our housing supply further. In any case, I doubt the safe third country agreement would withstand a court challenge at this point.

            It’s going to be trans people who would be eligible first, probably.