#australian election 2025

[votealbanese]

so the Australian election is expected to be held by May 2025.

I know that Anthony Albanese isn't liked by a lot of people, HOWEVER, I still think we should be voting for him.

The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, shares the same views as Donald Trump.

It's not about voting for the best option. It's about not choosing the worst option.

Please, Australia, don't let America's reality become ours too.

[glimmertriggers]

[holy-politics-batman]

How Peter Duton has consistently Voted in parliament

Spoiler: He hates you Not everything is terrible, but holy shit it gets bad and a lot of it is bad (Source at the bottom)

Voted for:

A citizenship test

A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism (Remove the tax on carbon)

A same-sex marriage plebiscite (plebiscite means to get rid of)

An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)

Carbon Farming Initiative Amendment Bill 2014

Charging postgraduate research students fees

Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples

Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack

Decreasing availability of welfare payments

Deregulating undergraduate university fees (Removing any restrictions on the amount that universities can charge students for tuition)

Drug testing welfare recipients

Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates

Greater control over items brought into immigration detention centres

Having a referendum on whether to create an Indigenous Voice to Parliament (To be fair he also did recently have a trantrum because he didn't want to stand infrount of the Aboriginal flag, so)

Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship

Government administered paid parental leave

Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts (HECS-HELP is basically student loans)

Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers

Increasing the cost of humanities degrees (Humanities include: History, Geography, Philosophy, Religion, Citizenship, Economics, Business, ect)

Increasing the price of subsidised medicine

Prioritising religious freedom

Privatising government-owned assets

Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial

Recognising local government in the Constitution

Reducing the corporate tax rate

Senate electoral reform

Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia

Temporary Exclusion Orders

Temporary protection visas

The territories being able to legalise euthanasia

Turning back asylum boats when possible

A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia

Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention

Increasing scrutiny of unions

Implementing refugee and protection conventions

Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis

Privatising certain government services

Voluntary student union fees

Increasing funding for road infrastructure

Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%

Increasing the Medicare Levy to pay for the National Disability Insurance Scheme

Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use

The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")

The Intervention in the Northern Territory

Voted against:

A carbon price

A minerals resource rent tax

A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability

A transition plan for coal workers

Banning pay secrecy clauses

Capping gas prices

Carbon farming

Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)

Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)

Criminalising wage theft

Decreasing the private health insurance rebate

Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers

Ending illegal logging

Ending immigration detention on Manus Island

Extending government benefits to same-sex couples

Federal action on public housing

Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions

Increasing availability of abortion drugs

Increasing consumer protections

Increasing funding for university education

Increasing housing affordability

Increasing investment in renewable energy

Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people

Increasing marine conservation

Increasing penalties for breach of data

Increasing political transparency

Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water

Increasing restrictions on gambling

Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management

Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry

Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry

Increasing the diversity of media ownership

Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace

Increasing transparency of big business by making information public

Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity

Net zero emissions by 2035

Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals (Agvet chemicals protect crops and livestock)

Removing children from immigration detention

Reproductive bodily autonomy

Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements

Restricting donations to political parties

Restricting foreign ownership

Same-sex marriage equality

Stem cell research

Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)

The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme

The Paris Climate Agreement

Tobacco plain packaging

Transgender rights

Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency

Mix

Reducing tax concessions for high socio-economic status

Increasing competition in bulk wheat export

Mostly Yes

Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)

Unconventional gas mining

A character test for Australian visas

Increasing or removing the Government debt limit

Regional processing of asylum seekers

Mostly No

Increasing the age pension

Net zero emissions by 2050

Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)

Vehicle efficiency standards

Increasing support for rural and regional Australia

Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)

Source

https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/dickson/peter_dutton

[trammellesstangent]

Ugh this year I will have to start caring about politics and I am NOT looking forward to it.

[hailthegodsong]

i’m not one to get political + i’m not even american, but reading this is actually scary asf

and to think people are getting mad at josh for saying “love is blue” cause they don’t agree he should be promoting anti-trump messages when this is the reality for him if trump gets in

“Loss of protection in healthcare” — WHAT?!

[reasonsforhope]

Article

"Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday that his government planned to cut student loans for around three million Australians by 20%, wiping off around A$16 billion ($10 billion) in debts.

The move builds on May's budget, which attacked cost of living pressures in Australia and gave debt relief for students, as well as more investment to make medicines cheaper, and a boost to a rent assistance programme.

"This will help everyone with a student debt right now, whilst we work hard to deliver a better deal for every student in the years ahead," Albanese said in a statement announcing the cut to student loans for tertiary education.

The changes would mean the average graduate with a loan of A$27,600 would have A$5,520 wiped, the government said, adding that they would take effect from June 1, 2025.

The government said it already planned to cut the amount that Australians with a student debt have to repay per year and raise the threshold to start repayments.

If reelected at the next general election, due in 2025, Labor would also legislate to guarantee 100,000 free places each year at the country's Technical and Further Education institutes, Albanese said.

"This is a time for building, building better education for all," he said in a speech to supporters in South Australia state capital Adelaide.

Cost of living pressures, stoked by stubbornly high inflation, have a special resonance with a federal election looming and the centre-left Labor government now polling behind their conservative opponents.

(US$1 = 1.5246 Australian dollars)

-via Reuters, November 2, 2024

[indecisive-flautist]

i’m not american and i don’t like posting about the USA bc we’re all too inundated w their stuff globally however i think given the current political climate it’s v important that people are aware of Bernie Sanders’ latest speech (1 Feb 2025) which has an air of “will be studied in history classes” and serves as an informed call to action for the american people who are realising the severity and significance of their current administration going unchecked

additionally for my fellow Australians if we don’t want this sort of crap happening here then we need to make sure that the likes of Peter Dutton do not become Prime Minister in our upcoming federal election as he is already following the same path as Trump and if you really want to send a clear message against the racism and pandering to the rich then putting greens 1 with preferences to labor is the way to do it bc even though greens aren’t gonna be in power per se, the fact that they take a strong opposite stance will tell labor that we don’t want concessions to the conservative voters who don’t understand that they’ll ultimately suffer too if they vote for Dutton the same way that many americans who voted for Trump are now finding out bc they were ignorant to it before.

Okay rant over have a good day and make good choices ✌🏼

[inthefallofasparrow]

Honest Government Ad | Australian Election 2025

[aimeedaisies]

The Princess Royals Official Engagements in January 2025

09/01 As Honorary President, attended the Oxford Farming Conference at the Examination Schools in Oxford. 👩‍🌾📊🚜

As Warden of Gordonstoun School, held a Dinner at Windsor Castle. 🍽️🏫🏰

14/01 As Patron of the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux, opened Citizens Advice Norwich. ⚖️💷📞

As Royal Patron of the National Coastwatch Institution, visited Brancaster Station in Brancaster near Kings Lynn. 🌊🔭

As Patron of the Cranfield Trust, attended a 35th Anniversary Reception at Mercers’ Hall in London. 📜🍽️

15/01 On behalf of The King, held morning and afternoon Investitures at Windsor Castle. 🎖️

16/01 Visited the Fire Service College to mark its Fiftieth Anniversary in Moreton-in-Marsh

Visited Wings for Warriors at Gloucestershire Airport Training Facility.

As Patron of English Rural Housing Association, opened a new development at the Sunground in Avening.

17/01 Opened the new Improve Veterinary Education Training Facility at Delta 1200 in Swindon

As President of the Royal Yachting Association, visited West Wiltshire Youth Sailing Association in Westbury.

20/01 Unofficial Departed from Heathrow Airport for South Africa. Commander Anne Sullivan RN and Captain Fergus Lupton in attendance. 🇬🇧✈️🇿🇦

21/01 Unofficial Arrived at Cape Town International Airport and was received by the British High Commissioner of South Africa. 🇿🇦

As President of the Riding for the Disabled Association, visited the South African Riding for the Disabled Association in Cape Town. 🐎

Visited a photography exhibition in the Garden of the Residence in Cape Town. 📸

Attended a Reception and Dinner given by the British High Commissioner to the Republic of South Africa at the Residence. 🍽️

22/01 As President of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, opened the Cape Town Labour Corps Memorial and laid a wreath. 🪦🫡

Visited the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation Museum at Desmond and Leah Tutu House. 🏠

Visited Royal Cape Yacht Club. 🛥️

Visited the South African Astronomical Observatory. 🔭🪐

Visited Thuthuzela Care Centre at Victoria Hospital in Wynberg. 🩺

Unofficial Departed from Cape Town International Airport for the United Kingdom. Commander Anne Sullivan RN and Captain Fergus Lupton in attendance. 🇿🇦✈️🇬🇧

23/01 Unofficial Arrived at Heathrow Airport, London, from South Africa. Commander Anne Sullivan RN and Captain Fergus Lupton were in attendance. 🇿🇦🛬🇬🇧

24/01 As Patron of the Grand Military Race Committee, attended the Grand Military Gold Cup Day at Sandown Park Racecourse. 🏆

28/01 As Perpetual Master of the Worshipful Company of Saddlers, chaired the Quarter Court Meeting, chaired the Livery Court Meeting, and attended a Luncheon at Saddlers’ Hall in London. 💼🍽️

29/01 As Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Australian Corps of Signals, held a Meeting with Brigadier Deane Limmer (Head of Corps) via video link. 🇦🇺📹

Departed from Heathrow Airport, London, for Switzerland and was received upon arrival this evening at Geneva Airport. 🇬🇧🛫🇨🇭

30/01 As Member of the International Olympic Committee, and Chairman of the International Olympic Committee Members Election Commission, attended the International Olympic Committee Session at Olympic House in Lausanne, Switzerland. 💼🇨🇭

31/01 Visited and presented The King’s Award for Enterprise: Innovation to Thermoteknix Systems Limited in Cambridge. 🏆

As Patron of the Butler Trust, visited HMP Littlehey. 👮‍♀️

Total official engagements for Anne in January: 27

2025 total: 27

Total official engagements accompanied/ represented by Tim in January: 0

2025 total: 0

[passerkirbius]

Tumblr, help me!

Australia's elections are due in 2025, and I'd really like to try and remind Australians that you do not, in fact, have to vote for either Labor or the Coalition, because we have preferential voting and we could, legit, return a parliament where neither Labor nor the Coalition are in charge. Ya know, if we were angry enough at 'em (and I know I am!).

So I wrote a whole bunch of little pithy verses but I have a problem, in that I'm a decent writer but have no musical skills to save my life. So, I'm going to pop the verses here, and should anyone want to, ya know, grab out their guitar/piano/DAW, have some fun with 'em, and spread that fun far and wide, I give everyone full permission to go ahead:

If ya go and vote out Labor, ya know the Liberals won't save ya, They'll be the same but just reversed, Alternatively you can put somebody else first!

Your vote don't have to stop, with your 1 at the top, Go get your anger out in one big burst, Teach 'em both a lesson and put somebody else first!

The two main parties, Ain't exactly full of smarties, Yeah they're both the fucking worst, All I'm saying is you can put somebody else first!

You can bet a lot of money, It'd be really fucking funny, to have a parliament that's outright cursed, All we have to do is put somebody else first!

[votealbanese]

[actualhumancryptid]

I don't like what this portends, because it looks like we're following the anti-trans fucking horror show overseas. Unblocked article below.

Sean Parnell and Olivia Ireland January 28, 2025 — 4.52pm

Queensland has become the first state to restrict hormone therapy for young people, ordering public health facilities cease offering such interventions to new patients with gender dysphoria.

Health Minister Tim Nicholls on Tuesday said the immediate “pause” was justified on safety grounds, due to allegations around the authority for services provided to 17 young people in far north Queensland.

But Nicholls said the restrictions would also allow Queensland to conduct its own review of the medical evidence around puberty blockers and gender-affirming hormone therapy provided to people under the age of 18.

Nicholls said an external evaluation of the statewide Queensland Children’s Gender Service, completed last year under the former Labor government, had wrongly set out to determine “how is the service delivered, not whether the service ought to be delivered”.

He said a reviewer had yet to be appointed, but would be consulted on the terms of reference and be required to report back within 10 months.

The Queensland LNP last year joined Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party in adopting a policy to ban puberty blockers.

The WA Liberal Party wants to follow Queensland’s lead if it wins the state election in March, promising to ban puberty blockers while awaiting the findings of a review to determine whether the ban is warranted.

Other states also offer hormone therapy as part of gender-affirming healthcare, with some variation in the consent and approval processes.

Before the Queensland election in October, LNP leader David Crisafulli called for an evidence-based approach while at the same time claiming Queensland was out of step with the rest of the world.

The UK government banned the routine use of puberty blockers in December.

In announcing the review, Nicholls said there was “widely contested international evidence” around the use of hormone therapy for young people with gender dysphoria.

“Queensland has not yet undertaken its own considered review of that evidence,” he said, noting that France, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Sweden had also imposed restrictions.

However, Equality Australia CEO Anna Brown on Tuesday declared Queensland “an outlier state”, while Eloise Brook from the Australian Professional Association for Trans Health (AusPATH) warned the LNP government was putting young people at risk.

“Hormone treatments for the small number of young people who need them are essential health care,” Brook said. “The evidence shows that denying access to this care will cause young people immeasurable trauma, contributing to depression, anxiety and in some cases self-harm.”

The federal Labor government and Coalition opposition said it was a matter for the states.

But, with an election due within months, and an apparent lack of national consensus, Queensland-based Deputy Nationals Leader Matt Canavan called for a federal ban.

“The drugs they use have not been tested and approved for gender transition services and young children are not mature enough to make such life-changing decisions,” Canavan said.

“We should not treat our kids as guinea pigs.”

The evaluation of the Queensland Children’s Gender Service heard patients and their families “reported the care is extremely comprehensive, considered, safe, and evidence-based,” and staff did not coerce or rush decisions.

The incoming Queensland LNP government put a stop to work implementing the recommendations from the evaluation – which had highlighted “long waitlists and demands from consumers to access the service” – and the further expansion of the service.

The local allegations around the “apparently unauthorised” provision of services in Cairns will be the subject of two separate investigations, Nicholls said, with those findings also to be considered in the broader review.

Nicholls said the allegations were raised in May 2024, investigated locally, and relayed to him in December.

“While this review is taking place, there is a need to maintain confidence in the public health services … so today I am also announcing an immediate pause on new public patients receiving hormone therapy for those who are under the age of 18,” he told reporters.

Nicholls said patients already receiving hormone therapy would be able to continue – there were 547 in mid-2024 – and other services would still be available to young people with gender dysphoria.

A spokesman for the state’s Labor opposition said the government’s decision “impacts some of our most vulnerable”.

“Ultimately, it should be a medical discussion and decision between an individual and their doctors, not one made by politicians,” the spokesman said.

It is not the first time the Queensland LNP has been criticised for its health policies. After a campaign mired by debate over abortion laws, Crisafulli took the extraordinary step of banning parliament from discussing the issue.

[cygnusdoesthings]

hey um. idk what im trying to write here but ig i just wanted to check in now that the official election results are in. you probably won't see this until the morning, purely based on the time it is for me rn, or maybe you will idk, but yeahhhh. this is... absolutely fucked

the die has been cast though, and it's scary and stressful and hard to have to watch other people go through this, but we just have to keep going and do what we can. a lot of your words 2night really helped ease my worries and make things feel a little bit better, thank u cyg, it was nice to have another australian moot who had a lot of the same worries as me. made me feel a little less ridiculous.

fuck trump

it is absolutely fucked

scary as hell and I can’t even imagine what America feels like

hey if it makes you feel better I talked to my mum and she almost threw up at the project 2025 shit.

fuck trump.

I’m glad I could help a bit <3

[rebelichor]

It feels like I'm flooding the dash out of no where fhyeurhgfwi

I apologise for being resurrected so suddenly.

I blame the constant flow of bad news from personal life events to general media. Between the 2024 curse on my life and the orange haemorrhoid being elected (I'm Australian) I have been Doom Rotting Extra. I hate that a fresh start in 2025 has been robbed for me and I hate how much I'm going to hear about the audacity of that convict for the next 4 years. Again.

That means I have been very disconnected from my hobbies and being unable to find joy in doing things (or rather, being unable to Do Anything Whatsoever) is not a good path to continue rolling down. Hence the sudden blast of activity. I am making the attempt to get back into writing and gaming, I hope to plague your Tumblr dashboards again soon.

[pynkhues]

do you feel like acquiring newsreader indicates an investment or confidence in Sam/IWTV? I'm excited to finally be able to (legally lol) watch it.

Mm, yes and no? I think there are a few things at play, but I do think it indicates some interesting strategic moves and them strengthening their relationship with the ABC, which is our Australian equivalent of the BBC in the UK as a taxpayer funded, government-owned national broadcaster. The ABC makes The Newsreader, but also already airs a lot of AMC shows here (IWTV, Killing Eve and Kevin Can Fuck Himself being the main ones, I think), so they already seem to have some sort of distribution deal between them.

The Australian government has been in the process of introducing quotas for international streamers. This has been a long, drawn out, politically fraught process in the industry, so I won't get into the weeds of all of it, but the basic facts of it are that some time in the next year or so, the Australian government will be telling Netflix, Disney, Prime, etc. that they have to invest a certain amount in Australian content, either by making it or acquiring it, if they want to continue operating in the country.

The streamers - particularly Netflix - have been aggressively fighting the government on this, hence this process has been drawn out and the unions have all been doing a lot of work to keep it high on the agenda (like, we were supposed to know what the quotas were going to be in mid-2023 and probably won't until mid-2025 at this rate. Netflix is the one who was pushing it back specifically until after the election, because they think a Trump administration might be able to crush the quotas going through at all - it's been....pretty ugly and very frustrating and very much a reminder that Australia has very little weight on the world stage).

AMC (and Prime, actually, of which AMC+ is a channel on here) though has kind of I'd say been leaning into it a little? They've been really ramping up their presence at conferences and markets here and seem to be genuinelly trying to work with local producers in getting ahead of it. AMC hasn't made many Australian shows yet (although they've made a First Nations vampire show, Firebite, which is unfortunately not very good), but I know they've been out here quite a lot in-person, and I know my producer has met with them a few times and likes the team and thinks they're genuine in wanting to work with Australian creative teams.

The ABC makes quite a lot of Australian shows (again, they're owned by the Australian government, so they kind of have to, haha) and a lot of it is pretty good? The Newsreader's just one part of their drama slate, but they do a lot of comedy (including two of our best sitcoms, Utopia and Fisk) too. Developing a stronger relationship with the ABC and potentially having a reciprocal distribution deal could be a very good way for AMC+ to get on top of the streaming quotas early, become a preferred partner for Australian producers by being an early adopter, and just overall develop relationships with Australian talent, which they're doing not just with Sam through IWTV, but Emma as a director who also directs both for IWTV and literally every episode of The Newsreader.

That's not even getting into the fact that Australia has one of the best tax offsets for productions and post-production in the world, which is definitely of interest to them, I'd say, given one of the only country's that beats our offset is Prague which is notably where they shoot IWTV, haha. It's why so many blockbusters are shot here though, from Fall Guy to Aquaman, and why so many films do their post-production here.

So yeah, I would say it's probably a little bit indicative of an investment in Sam (and Emma), but I think it's also probably more about shoring up their relationship with the ABC ahead of the quotas being introduced (if they even are anymore). That said, I do think AMC is invested in IWTV - they're putting a lot into building out that storyworld and spinning off franchises and IWTV is the anchor of all of that. :-)