• PickTheStick@ttrpg.network
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    1 year ago

    I’m really curious (as I’m not living there) what the difference is. Is it just their religious tendencies? Or is it their feelings towards the nebulous “other” that defines them?

    • Cypher@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      In Australia there are two major political parties, Labor and Liberals.

      Liberals does not mean what it does in the US, they are the right wing party, who are in a coalition with the Nationals party which is even further right wing.

      Labor is now centre-right as they kept running on centre-left policies and losing.

      The defining difference between the parties on the domestic front are that Labor supports and Liberals oppose

      1. Social safety nets

      2. Universal medical care

      3. Taxation of corporations

      On a foreign policy front they parties are broadly aligned however their stance on how to deal (interact) with China is vastly different, where Labor engages the Liberals attack China endlessly which resulted in a trade war which we’re still feeling the effects of.

      This is a very shallow examination of Australia’s political landscape but I’m not a political commentator.