2026-10-02 22:03 UTC
@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social well we have a state election next month here, and the Trump like One Nation party (who love to regurgitate Trump BS) are rating way higher than they should. This is a worry.
However, we have mandatory voting, and also preferential voting, so that tends to keep the lunatics more under control than your electoral system. Here's hoping for sanity prevailing next month....
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@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social 2026-10-02 22:06
@VWDasher@mymasto.com Yes, how I envy your mandatory voting and alternate vote! Every country is dealing with Putin's propaganda stirring up the worst people, but I think Australia will hold the line. As far as next month, people are mobilizing all over the country to protect the vote in the streets and in the court rooms. I say as one of them: if anybody tries to say when we win that this whole period wasn't as bad as all that, I am going to have to be restrained.