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By Jim McIntosh
Peter Dutton, the former opposition leader, frequently claimed a so-called ‘coalition’ existed between Labor and The Greens. This assertion is ironic, given his own Liberal Party’s long-standing alliance with the National Party – a partnership that, despite occasional friction, had persisted for nearly a century.
In reality, no coalition exists between Labor and The Greens, or any other party, as election results clearly demonstrate. The Liberal-National coalition, however, is a cornerstone of Australia’s two-party system, often praised as a stabilising force in our politics. Yet, it’s now being framed as a central issue in political debates.
Talk of switching to a first-past-the-post system has surfaced, particularly from a struggling and fractured opposition. Such a change might offer them some tactical advantage, but it’s hypocritical for right-leaning media to now criticise preferential voting – a system designed to reinforce the very two-party stability they’ve long championed.
Curiously, the Nationals seem to overestimate their own importance. When a minor party like theirs, which even supplies a deputy prime minister, starts flexing its limited influence, it feels more like a fleeting tantrum than a seismic shift.
In the end, it’s much ado about nothing – just another typhoon in a teacup.
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Not everyone who aspires to a career as a politician is guaranteed to make that career choice a successful one. Examples are replete on both sides of the political divide, and need not be repeated here. Dutts, let the history books record, is just the latest iteration of individuals who through egoist fantasies, prodding from the missus, zealous adherence to some political creed, taking on a bet from a mate or for other crazy reasons decide that they've got what it takes to get in on the team and make an impact on the Australian society, and who ultimately end up failing miserably. Oddly enough, quite a few of these duds seem to come from Queensland. Must be the heat, cooking the brain and all that.
I see that Little Lord Beardy Boy Paterson is not happy that people are sticking picking on his hero The Spud.
@4.27 pm,
https://www.smh.com.au/national/australia-news-live-nationals-split-from-liberals-howard-lashes-coalition-collapse-as-stupid-move-20250521-p5m0vy.html
I have really wondered if coalitions should be allowed to exist!
They seem to come from a time when only men had the vote and the founding fathers crafted the constitution and political system to favour the establishment and landed gentry! They are a technique when minority parties can coalesce to become elected! Particularly a manipulation as seen in Australia to keep conservatives often in minority numbers on their own right in power at all costs!
But if Labor and Greens formed a coalition Australia may never have to suffer again from mining and press oligarchs, corrupt, elitist and mean policies and decisions!