A Trump supporter gets elected to the Australian senate

[Incorruptible]

Aus politics can be extremely convoluted. There were several senators who got booted due to having duel citizenship. This caused a byelection in which the booted senators can stand as well as their challengers. Senator Anning got voted in based on preferences another quirk of our system. Another part of our system is whoever is leader of the currently elected party is Prime Minister. We are currently having leadership spills where another federal member of the house of representatives from the same party challenges the current PM*. Good times.

This is essentially occurring because Malcolm Turnbull is a moderate Liberal and supports the Paris climate agreement. He also advocated the successful vote for Gay marriage. However there are powerful and far more conservative member's within his government who support the coal lobby and Christianity. So they seek to supplant him.

*this is what ever party holds the most seats in the house of representatives. However the governor general who is the queens representative can dissolve the houses of parliament which leads to a general election. This has happened once.

I wish they would fuck the queen (or king) off but we had a referendum about 25 years ago to do just that and it didn't happen.

Malcolm Turnbull is a moron and leftist scumbag, Australia doesn't need him in charge.

 

[urvile]

Malcolm Turnbull is a moron and leftist scumbag, Australia doesn't need him in charge.

Tajbot has transitioned to the error state.

 

[twjr]

Malcolm Turnbull is a moron and leftist scumbag, Australia doesn't need him in charge.

No, Turnbull was a liberal centrist with a touch too much compassion for the financial sector. Interestingly, the most likely outcome from ousting him with an election pending is the transition to a left-wing Labor government.

 

[mikeymikec]

Malcolm Turnbull is a moron and leftist scumbag

Coming from the guy who supports Nazis as well as banning a religion because of his over-active imagination, I think if there's going to the prizes for "moron" and "scumbag" handed out, you get to claim both.

What are your aspirations in life? To become more like Tommy Robinson and go after Muslims full-time, or to finally make a factual assertion and back it up with evidence instead of your usual shit-and-run?