05-06-2022, 02:15 AM
Hard right. Australia doesn't have a hard right political party. At best they are centrists, at worst lefties (and conservative at that).
We as a society are rather left in general, so even our more conservative parties seem hard right, but the reality is, that they are just right of general society and they are arguably more centrist in nature leaning right.
The tell is, that regardless of whom wins the election, our policies, method of government, freedoms, etc, don't vary wildly (aside from the Knights and Dames crap the Abbott Government came up with).
The One Nation and Clive Palmer types are the ones that present as more Hard Right, and even they arent that ridiculous.
It has been hijacked by the Greenies over the last 20 years to present Australia as having a Hard Right party and that is an easy win for the Labor party, but in reality during the pandemic, we have seen the biggest Draconian enforcement of rules and regulations I have personally witnessed in my 40 years on this earth.
We as a society are rather left in general, so even our more conservative parties seem hard right, but the reality is, that they are just right of general society and they are arguably more centrist in nature leaning right.
The tell is, that regardless of whom wins the election, our policies, method of government, freedoms, etc, don't vary wildly (aside from the Knights and Dames crap the Abbott Government came up with).
The One Nation and Clive Palmer types are the ones that present as more Hard Right, and even they arent that ridiculous.
It has been hijacked by the Greenies over the last 20 years to present Australia as having a Hard Right party and that is an easy win for the Labor party, but in reality during the pandemic, we have seen the biggest Draconian enforcement of rules and regulations I have personally witnessed in my 40 years on this earth.
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Paul Hewson
Paul Hewson