• glimmer_twin [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Are you serious? The ALP reopened Manus and Nauru in 2012 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/aug/13/australia-asylum-seekers-pacific-islands

    “As of today, asylum seekers who come here by boat without a visa will never be settled in Australia''.

    If that isn’t anti-immigrant rhetoric, I don’t know what is. https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/kevin-rudd-to-send-asylum-seekers-who-arrive-by-boat-to-papua-new-guinea-20130719-2q9fa.html

    The ALP have been more than willing to go along with the “boat people” crap, and that’s just recent history. If you want to go back to their formative years and how they were into White Australia as much as anyone, we can. https://jacobinmag.com/2020/03/australian-labor-party-alp-white-australia-policy-bill-shorten/

    • cadence [they/them,she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Yes, I am seriously asking for a citation, because I do not know and would like to learn. I did try looking it up but couldn't immediately find anything useful.

    • GothWhitlam [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      This. I have to remind family and friends, normally smart people, that Labor have been historically just as bad when it comes to race as the Libs.

      Here in Australia we have right and slightly less right.

      • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        The classic “workers party arguing for a more equal share of the spoils of empire”

      • mazdak
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        1 year ago

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        • GothWhitlam [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          That's a fair call, but the fact that Labor have one two elections in the last 3 decades makes their current strategy of 'Liberal party, but slightly less evil' pretty fucking useless. Honestly, the media might hate a change, but a coalition with the greens and pushing hard left as a hard workers party might make a difference.

      • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        :stalin-stressed:

        My anti-ALP impulse is so strong I forgot the context of the fucking article I posted haha