AUSTRALIA, Brazil, Malaysia and Colombia all voted in reformist governments this year, after years of corrupt conservative Right-wing rule. Progressive governments were returned with strong mandates in Portugal, Malta and Denmark. Women were elected national leaders for the first time in Italy, Slovenia and Peru.
Source: Voters everywhere made the world a safer place in 2022
After over a decade of fear rejection detention and backs turned on them by an uncompassionate government they have been told to call the place home?? No apology in this "news" is there? We have been wrong since Howard began turning boats away and thats the whole of this century. Same Australia Shame. Only a Labor government has had the balls to change and do what has always been right.
They’ve been waiting for a decade or more, but now many of the asylum seekers who arrived by boat in the Rudd/Gillard years will no longer be in limbo.
Betia’s family tried 14 times to escape to Australia. 10 years later, they can finally call it home
Murdoch seems to have a greater grip on American than he does Australia with 36% subscriptions to cable TV. Foxtel and Sky News seem more of a joke here than in America. Only 8% watch the ABC so why is he so ineffective an influencer here?
a golden age of conspiracy theory — Republicans have endorsed all kinds of dubious, far-fetched or provably false theories, most based either in denying the validity of election results or embracing the all-encompassing online cult movement QAnon, which is now pretty much the conservative mainstream.
Source: “Groomers,” Paul Pelosi and so much more: The most unhinged GOP conspiracy theories of 2022 | Salon.com
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committee’s decision sends a powerful sign that it believes the former
president committed certain crimes and must be held to account.
Trump referred for criminal prosecution over Capitol attack
Australia has developed a habit over the years of offering a glimpse into the political future for other Western nations. Bob Hawke and Paul Keating served up a governing blueprint for Tony Blair’s New Labour. John Howard’s focus at the start of the century on border security foreshadowed how the politics of fear and the “othering” of immigrants would become a dominant theme of the populist right, as evidenced by the Brexit referendum and the victory of Donald Trump.
The positive news out of Australia is that all of these trend-lines point towards a more inclusive and constructive democracy, with a focus on meaningful issues rather than phoney wars. Hopefully, a country that has exported more than its fair share of political toxicity may be leading the way towards a healthier style of politics.
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