I wish to thank you, my American friends, in an ironic way. Many of you did not want Donald Trump as your President, but the fact, as of last night, is a pattern of the Trumpism setting, a emerging pattern of other countries moving to the Centre Left: Canada a few weeks ago, Australia last night.
Of course, there were other issues in the Australian historical re-election of the Anthony Albanese government, however, a clear sign that Donald Trump’s neo-conservative policies in his culture-history war, and his backward, long, 19th century economic thinking, was a big factor in the Australian election, and that is the fact that the (was) Opposition Leader, Peter Dutton, lost his seat in a traditional Liberal area, in the outer north of Brisbane, Queensland (I live in the Southern Brisbane Labor Heartland). Dutton, before the cautious election campaign, and since the first American Trumpian election in 2016, spoke highly of Trump’s political thinking.
It is a historical victory for the Labor Party. Albanese is the Australian prime minister, who is the first who has been re-elected as a back-to-back sequential governments since John Howard, nearly 20 years ago (2007). In the last two decades, one-term governments on both sides have been the pattern. It is also a Centre-Left victory. The grouping called Liberal Teals, independents who walked out of the Liberal-National Coalition because of the parties who turned to the Trumpian right, has also done very well in the election when it was predicted that they would be wiped-out. The election was the highest Labor win in percentage since the “socialist” Prime Minister Ben Chifley (1945-1949). Today, the political commentators is describing the Australian election:
“the defeat of Bunya Trumpism.”
Featured Image: Screenshot 2025-05-04 Labor Historic Victory
“My fellow Australians…”
Neville Buch
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