Aussie general population is so similar to the US, in many ways even more sarcastic, yet somehow their govt is insanely gay like the UK, what an odd combination
Our Government are retards. It's our media that is fucking gay, and our retarded government listens to gay fucking media hacks instead of Aussies (because they are retarded). Despite what our local cookers claim (these cunts are also retards) we've got 60 years plus of every politician (local, state and federal) absolutely shit scared of the Murdochracy. To the point they are intimidated by a short cunt that does morning shows and does stupid things like dancing Gungnam style and a balding male rapist who used to do talk back radio.
Though big changes are coming. The Boomers have been the dominant voting demographic here since 1967, and it has only been since 2025 that they got replaced by millenials and zoomers. So you have a media institution and government that has catered exclusively to Boomers for 60 years now having to try and appeal to Gen X, Millenials, Zoomers and the Alphas coming up behind them, and niether the politicians nor the media companies have the first fucking idea of how to do that because catering to boomers has become institutional and habitual. The next 15 years is going to be an extinction level event in Australian politics and media. Some parties (like Labor) will survive, but most media outlets and minor parties are going to go the way of the Dodo.
Good example is our Orange MAGA. It is a personality party built around Pauline Hanson. It is surging because many people are defecting from the LNP (our formerly dominant conservative party). Problem is however, Pauline Hanson is 72 years old, and hasn't exactly lived a clean and sober life (Ipswitch slappers love their goon and durries). Pauline is at slim odds to make it another decade, let alone 15 years, and once she drops off the entire thing will go tits up because the party is about Pauline Hanson. Not an actual unifying point or philosophy.
The LNP has fucked itself with a right wing purity spiral, where they are chasing out more and more moderate people, meaning they're facing extinction, so I'm betting a new conservative party will form that covers everything right of centre that will replace them. For people who say this is unlikely, a reminder, this exact scenario has played out three times since federation, with the Liberal Party replacing the original United Australia Party, the United Australia Party replaced the Nationalist Party, and the Nationalist party replaced the Protectionist Party and Free Trade Party Coalition. All because each fucking one got locked into a right-wing purity spiral.
Combining the death of the Boomer with the same shit different decade mistakes means things are about to change very rapidly in Australia for the politicians and media hacks. Hope similar shit happens elsewhere.