Polling data shows gen Z is the least likely demographic to vote for One Nation, with support coming from older generations.
Young Australians have told triple j hack how a difference in politics has impacted their family dynamic.
Relationships Australia said it is hearing from more people experiencing family fallouts over politics.
It sucks to see the same right-wing bullshit propaganda working in Australia too. Lower class people being conned into voting against their interests.
It sucks because it’s so obviously Americanised. Almost none of the arguments actually bear scrutiny here. American nationalism is dumb but if you look at the history of the country, the arguments at least can be strung together through the mythmaking of the US in the past. Here, though, it just makes no sense. We have medicare, we have public schools, we have gun control. All the ONP arguments only make sense in a vacuum apart from any other part of Australian life (including their own platform).
This is a pretty clear case of older people being susceptible to Facebook scams which are allowed to run rampant, and a total lack of control from the government except to send a bunch of the Australian people’s data overseas. I don’t know why they tolerate this.
Disagree - its pretty obvious why one nation is popular - 1. we have been in a per capita recession for 2 years and labor who have claimed that they will reduce migration numbers have done the opposite, increased spending and taxes bleeding voters to ON, -2. the past lib govt moved left on energy and wasted a metric fton of money during COVID bleeding voters to ON. I am not and never will be a one nation voter but I can see why they are popular its not ‘Americanisation’ its not facebook its not dumb people its not low class people, the same pattern is playing out in germany, sweden, italy etc and major centrist parties are to blame.
Prediction - if ON get in I expect they will implode into infighting which has been their past MO when they make gains.
Per capita recessions have been very common in Australia for the last several decades.
I thought labor recently changed the rules regard ing visa hopping which is predicted to get numbers under control?
Since 2019 the Australian economy on a per capita basis has gone down the toilet particularly 2022 through 2024 its not common for sustained multiple quarters. The average Australian is poorer than they were 4 years ago which for a nation with our resources is perplexing. And labor said they would get migration under control 2 years ago noting specific targets none of which they met. Falling standard of living = rise of extreme parties of both the left and right.
This is the perfect example. What you’re saying doesn’t make sense. First, you talk about per capita recession and then pivot to migration, even though you don’t show a link between the two. Then, you say Labor claim to reduce migration numbers “have done the opposite”, but the NOM is clearly visible. It only had a response from opening out of Covid, but other than that it’s settled around the same as the previous number. Labor have also overall reduced the numbers further. So what the heck does this mean?
If you look at ONP policy, they also want to increase net migration, depending on how you want to spin it, and they keep flip flopping on the actual goals. But sure, trust them over established parties. This is what I mean, there’s no argument that I can follow along with and say “ohh, that’s what you want”, because it’s paper thin.
I don’t know what this means but at this point no one wants fossil fuels and forcing the government to pay for it is just idiotic. So yeah, the LNP “moved left” on energy in the sense that they still want to support fossil fuels.
OK but you’re not communicating it. Why are they popular? They have no policy, they just grief, their own members are frustrated because they don’t have any sort of basis to connect on, and the way the party is structured, Pauline Hanson is effectively dictator.
There is no world in which basically every ONP member doesn’t defect from the party in the first term. This is what happened last time, it’ll happen again. The only reason people are paying attention is because of brainrot from social media. That brainrot only makes sense in an American context, only happens on Facebook, and frankly I’m a little sick of folks making arguments that don’t hold water and then going “they’re not dumb”. Like bro.
it’s not economic class. it’s pig ignorance
“Lower class” only ever said by someone with no class.
And it isn’t true. One Nation support crosses economic boundaries. The only thing that truly unites a One Nation voter is they are people who will trade away their futures and those of their countrymen for a bunch of BS.
What we must do that stupid yanks couldnt is not leave our mates and families behind to be caught up in this crap. They were morally broken long before MAGA. They watched as kids got shot in schools every month for years and did fuck all. We aren’t like that. Get out and talk sense to people if you care about them and ignore all the social media bullshit.
Spend some quality time with the oldies and they have less time to be sucked into all the online propaganda.
My parents are too far gone.
I really despise trying to reason with people who aren’t being reasonable.
I’m from the lower class you nitwit.
The class without which the parasite classes could not survive.
EDIT: But because the ‘lower’ classes are disadvantaged, they are more susceptible to demagogues who do the dirty work of the ‘upper’ parasite classes.
I was born into the manual working class. I saw from close-up what my parents did to survive. I got the opportunity to study and become part of a non-manual ‘middle-class’. There are dickheads in all classes but when a class or a ‘mafia’ of obscenely overprivileged but morally void families and groups (and their servants) are in charge our society and the natural world are in deep trouble.
The PHONey Party, much like MAGA and all the other current right-wing ‘populist’ political movements, groups and governments, is a symptom of the alienating sickness that is affecting the world.
The words you’re looking for is working class.
The only two classes are working class and owning class, with a very, very small blurred boundary where very, very high income workers start owning more income generating assets to eclipse their worked income.
“Lower class” isn’t something you hear anymore these days, for good reason.
If by lower class you are referring to inbreeding, that wouldn’t surprise me.
Class has nothing to do with economics though, its usage in that respect is pure manipulation by the rich.
Okay, so you’re starting off swinging with a bit of bigotry there, referring to the working class as inbred. Great start. Something tells me you’re not from a decent, hard-working family. I’m guessing a family history of owning businesses and blaming anyone but themselves when the business inevitably fails?
The fact you think “class has nothing to do with economics” tells me everything I need to know about you. I wouldn’t trust anyone from the “Upper” or “Higher” class with any job that requires skill and responsibility because unless it’s defrauding people, they have no tangible skill society actually needs other than the ones they tell us we need - they’re not labelled the parasite class for nothing ;)
That isn’t even a good try.
I was clearly referring to you.
Find a dictionary, get someone to help you with it.
Wow, you sound like a really pleasant person. I bet you’re invited to all the parties, hey.
You honestly think you should go outside and touch some grass. Maybe learn some social skills or something? Maybe people will like you after.
You sound like copy/paste.
Try reading, and thinking.
Have the day you deserve 🩷
Would that there was no ‘class’.
Generally I’d agree with what you just said, but PHON’s target demographic, the typical middle aged white (especially rural) Australian genuinely is just a lower class of sapien. Believe me, I’m surrounded by them on a daily basis.