#with murdoch and conservatives running most of the media here i will despair if this government is not chucked out

[fireolin]

Can we please get this election over with? The campaign only started last week, and its full of toxic transphobic dog-whistling that I've never seen in an Australian federal election campaign before. Every day there's some new mainstream press article over a trans exclusionary candidate that our PM hand-picked for the seat of Warringah in NSW. The idea, apparently, is that while she won't win that seat, the dogwhistle will gain party votes in more conservative areas in Western Sydney. She's been forced to apologise for her extreme language, but has gained massive publicity for her views.

Meanwhile issues like the government's refusal to establish an anti-corruption commission (which they promised) and their numerous failures in practically every area in the last three years, go undiscussed.