#(Australian Liberal)

[shinymeowstic]

you can't waste your vote in australia! and voting a minor party first gives them funding and helps our political environment by encouraging little guys with different views to shine! minor parties getting lots of votes makes the larger parties pay attention to what they are doing you can access my pdfs and jpegs here with a full 30+ page pdf with a summary of all the current federal parties, voting cheat sheets, voting resources & summaries for free!

[alexanderpearce]

did you know that former australian prime minister tony abbott was tangentially implicated in a wildlife trafficking operation back in the early 2000s google 'tony abbott budgie smugglers' to learn more

[you-need-not-apply]

Reminder to non Aussies

DO NOT PROMOTE THE LIBERAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA! (also known as the coalition or LNP)

They aren’t “liberals” like yours may be, they’re far right/right wing conservatives!!

[glimmertriggers]

[nando161mando]

Democrats And Republicans are Horrible

[phlebasphoenician]

Dutton Doesn’t Know the Price of Eggs

Leaders quizzed on price of eggs Before we hear from the undecided voters, let’s just circle back to an earlier rapid-fire question the leaders were asked – about the price of eggs. Peter Dutton answered that it would cost $4.20, while Anthony Albanese said the cost would be $7, “if you can find them”. The actual price was shown to be about, or just more than, $8.

Four fucking dollars and twenty cents?! When was the last time this man did the shopping?!

Also, I want to know where Albo buys his eggs - he's getting a good deal!

[inezrable]

AUSSIES PLEASE LISTEN

The Australian government wants to ban social media for under 16s across the country. The way they plan on enforcing this is by having to submit your ID. I don't know about you, but I don't want even more of my personal info online. Plus, teens kind of need socials! Talking to friends and family, communication with potential employers, entertainment - social media isn't the best for you, but you can't really live with none of it. This ban would potentially include Twitter, Tumblr, YouTube, Snapchat, Tiktok, and LinkedIn, plus most other socials. Fuck Albanese.

[ladybugmania]

To Mr. Dutton,

Who are you?

You move and talk like a malfunctioning algorithm, calculated, soulless, hollow. I watch you speak and it’s as if your entire moral compass is powered by a corrupt hard drive, uploaded straight from the archives of fear-mongering politics and empty patriotism.

I imagine you as a child, Dutton. The one who never got his hands dirty, who tattled on classmates when the teacher left the room. You didn’t just obey, you complied. You enjoyed writing names on the board. Not out of duty, but because it gave you a sense of power. You were the self-appointed sheriff of order in a classroom that never asked for one. You betrayed your own soul back then, and you’ve just spent decades making it official.

And now? You're bending over for Clive Palmer’s dystopian daydreams—selling your spine for political clout and votes scraped from the bottom of a conspiracy-fed barrel. You’ve aligned yourself with the Patriots of Parrots, a chorus of misinformation squawking about freedom while shackled to the ideology of someone like Trump. Let’s be honest—this isn’t about leadership, it’s about performance. And you’ve become a caricature of one.

You're not leading, Peter. You’re following a dangerous, backward tide. A tide that wants to drag Australia into a culture war we never asked for, just to win over voters clinging to fear like it’s a national anthem.

You say you’re serving the people. Which people? The loudest? The most bitter? Or just the ones who smell like the kind of racism Queensland still hasn’t fully reckoned with?

Your loyalty is no longer to the country, but to the echo chambers, the headlines, and the ghost of Donald Trump’s shadow. Keep going down that path and see how far you get before even your own reflection stops recognizing you.

Because the truth is, the more you posture, the more we see it: you’re not protecting Australia. You’re just protecting your place in a crumbling old boys’ club, hoping no one notices the rot beneath your polished shoes.

Yours Truly

Moth Hawk.

[faithliesinashes]

Hey Aussies!

Humanity Bites on tiktok created this handy dandy little spreadsheet that breaks down how the ALP, LNP, and Greens have voted on various policies

In case you needed a comparison on who to vote for this election.

[claraameliapond]

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Why would you trust Australia's worst Health Minister in history - Peter Dutton - to run the country?

You wouldn't

Vote Labor to keep Dutton out!

[brick-van-dyke]

Okay, in light of the "vote blue or don't vote blue" argument I'm seeing around here, I'm gonna tell you all a story.

I'm Australian and I voted for the Labour Party in the last election. For context, the Labour Party is essentially the left democrat party for Australia, while the Liberal Party is the ring wing republican one. So, I did what you'd all call "voting blue" in the USA, but in Australia. Anthony Albanese is the leader of Labour Left, a faction within the Labour Party to push it towards more leftist policies and ideals. He promised to protect minorities and said he would advocate for a free Palestine. We all voted for him believing it would help and so far, it sounds good doesn't it?

Well, here we are and Anthony Albanese has so far been pushing against pro Palestine protests, trying to implement anti protest legislation and made things actively harder for minorities in Australia. He's done nothing that he promised and of course acted almost as bad as the Liberals when they were in just before. In fact, it's arguably worse since the Labour Party has been attacking the right to protest over the last several months. They haven't done shit for minorities and if argue the ALP has actively made our lives harder.

Is voting important or not important? I don't know if u can answer that, but I can say this; politicians shouldn't be trusted to carry out promises when they're only there for self interest, regardless of what label they use to advertise that self interest. You shouldn't depend on them for change and sit around waiting for that change to come from these people. And, most importantly? There is no difference between those who voted and those who didn't when the most left leaning candidate we had has now just become legally complicit in the ICJ for genocide. There is no lesser evil when even one of us is harmed, and there is no "well at least it's not as bad" when that means sacrificing each other for the sake of a few benefits, so we have to band together and fight the whole damn system. It doesn't matter who did what, because at the end of the day the power is to the people, not the politicians who clearly can't be trusted no matter if you voted for "the right one", or chose not to vote at all. So, sure, vote. But don't expect that to change the world. You change the world through getting up with your fellow community and making a stand through your own physical actions against he system, not waiting for a politician to change anything when it's their job to lie and cheat. Reliance on the system is how we all come to lose and division is how we're silenced.

We're in this together and we need to remember what's important; each other and the power WE hold when we work together and fight against the entire system itself, not some representative in a suit.

[axvoter]

Blatantly Partisan Party Review XVII (federal 2025): Libertarian Party

Running where: in the House, many seats across NSW, QLD, VIC; in the Senate, for every state and territory

Senate note: for the ACT and NSW, the Libertarians are part of the Australia First Alliance. In the ACT, they are supplying the running mate in Group F with HEART in the lead position, and in NSW they are supplying the first and fourth candidates in Group I as part of a joint ticket with HEART and Rennick First)

Prior reviews (most under their former name of Liberal Democratic Party): federal 2013, VIC 2014, federal 2016, VIC 2018, NSW 2019, federal 2019, federal 2022, VIC 2022, NSW 2023, WA 2025

What I said before: “This is a cynical and callous party for people who lack empathy. Its economic and social policies are destructive; its approach to firearms is dangerous; its blinkered hostility to government accepts no possibility it can be used for—or that there even is such a thing as—collective good.” (federal 2022)

What I think this year: Libertarianism is the ideology for overgrown toddlers whose parents never taught them to share. Overgrown toddlers with an anger management issue. If you have the misfortune on social media to have an even moderately popular libertarian account drag you to their followers, your mentions will soon be filled with vile insults and threats from the worst people online. It is important to block on sight and move on.

The Libertarians are always in contention for my last preference and often get it, although I sometimes decide somebody else deserves that indignity (e.g. Aussie Trump at the recent WA state election). Their ideology is consistent, but consistently terrible. The Libertarian Party’s policies would gut Australia’s public services and promote hatred and discrimination; they do not want to cut red tape, they want to make government so small that it is ineffective. Their ideal public realm is a mean and cruel one, and they would enable malign actors to prosper at the expense of ordinary people. The Libertarians have also embraced covid pandemic conspiracies and extremist language in the last few years.

Basically, while most of the world looks on aghast at the vandalism occurring in the US—the dismantling of institutions and safeguards, cronyism and corruption, vicious culture wars, contempt for the rule of law—this party admires Donald Trump and similar world leaders like Javier Milei in Argentina, who has exacerbated poverty in his country and promoted crypto scams.  One thing that strikes me about libertarianism around the world is the regular hypocrisy and ideological inconsistency of its adherents. A great example is David Seymour of New Zealand’s libertarian ACT Party, whom I have dubbed the world’s worst libertarian for how frequently he promotes tighter regulations or bans or censorship of anything that he disagrees with (or which might upset his NIMBY electorate). Australia’s libertarians also have their share of hypocrisy. If this party were sincerely committed to personal freedom, they would not be transphobes who want to restrict the rights and participation of trans people in society.

No doubt there are many charlatans and creeps standing for this party, but two stuck out to me on the NSW Senate ballot. The Libertarians' lead candidate (who tops the Australia First Alliance shared ticket) is Craig Kelly, the distasteful ex-Liberal MP and conspiracist, who for a time led Palmer’s UAP and was promoted with delusional language as a future prime minister. He then served about half a year as One Nation’s federal campaign director in 2024. Clearly he is trying to collect all the cretinous parties. The other Libertarian candidate on the NSW ticket is ex-Labor Western Sydney councillor Steve Christou, who was One Nation-curious and participated in its events with Kelly before the latter left the party. Christou has clearly followed Kelly into the Libertarians. He is known for such hits as promoting bans on drag queen storytime and on same-sex parenting books at the Cumberland City Council’s libraries, trying to stop welcomes to country and smoking ceremonies, and back in 2019 he was elected mayor of Cumberland while a Labor councillor and quit the party in his formal acceptance speech. Classy fella.

Always assume bad faith from this party. Every election I roll my eyes with contempt when I reach them in my reviews. There is a much more detailed review over on Something for Cate if you want a blow-by-blow account of this party’s atrocious policies.

Recommendation: Give the Libertarian account a very low preference in the House and a weak or no preference in the Senate. As noted above, they are an appropriate choice for last place.

Website: https://www.libertarians.org.au/

[thepastisneverdead1966]

I hate it when a liberal (conservative party in australia) candidate is a child of immigrant and all the minorities go crazy and completely disregard their policies and vote for them. Like yk growing up in a predominantly white neighbourhood + going to fancy private schools makes him fundamentally a different person than you, a first generation immigrant right? And he will NOT be working in your best interest, otherwise he wouldn’t be in a party that famously blame immigrants for every societal issues. I’m not actually mad at the voters bc a lot of these information is inaccessible to them as they’re all in English. The candidates however, claiming to relate to the experience of immigrants while actively working to oppress them, are just blatantly evil and manipulative

[senpaipsy-blog]

liberal voters and other right-wing sky news zombies (the Liberal party are Australia's conservatives) are fucking SEETHING that the treasurer has confirmed the upcoming budget will be a deficit, and using it as proof that Labor are "incompetent" and "bad economic managers". However, they're conveniently ignoring the fact that the last 2 budgets were both surpluses, and that the Liberals, who were in for a DECADE, gave us a deficit every year they were in power, but that's just fine apparently.

Of course, right-wingers in this country are playing "follow the leader" with America (as usual), and anyone who points out their hypocrisy is "woke" or something.

[dadsinsuits]

Malcolm Turnbull