Do not forget that #PoliticalParties under #capitalism always betray the workers. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1924, ~200,000 British dockworkers went on #strike, and the #Labour party under #RamsayMacDonald invoked Emergency Powers to suppress it. They failed and workers got a raise.
#PoliticalParties
Women's advocate quits Liberal Party after Ley defeat
By Claudia Long
Women were less likely to vote for the Coalition at the 2025 election than ever before, according to the Australian Election Study.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-15/charlotte-mortlock-women-liberal-party/106347176
#FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #Women #CommunityandSociety #PoliticalParties #Elections #StateandTerritoryParliament #LiberalPartyofAustralia #AustralianFederalElections #WomensRights #ClaudiaLong
Ruling out nuclear power is 'crazy', new Liberal deputy says
Deputy Liberal leader Jane Hume says Australia needs to be "open minded" on nuclear power if the country is to bring down emissions and make power cheaper.
#NuclearIssues #GovernmentandPolitics #RenewableEnergy #NuclearEnergy #Utilities #Environment #PoliticalParties #EnergyResearch #StateandTerritoryGovernment #FederalGovernment
“The more that #politicalparties rely on #metrics and other #simplifications, the more they are likely to be blindsided by #voters whose wants and ideas are not readily captured by simple #measures.” open.substack.com/pub/programm...
The Median Voter Theorem is a ...
Angus Taylor just got an unwelcome parting gift from the leader he deposed
By Casey Briggs
Within two hours of being elected Liberal leader, Angus Taylor has already been delivered his first big electoral test, and it has come from the woman he deposed.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-13/farrer-byelection-sussan-ley-angus-taylor/106341236
#Elections #GovernmentandPolitics #LiberalPartyofAustralia #PoliticalParties #AustralianFederalElections #StateandTerritoryGovernment #ElectoralSystem #NationalPartyofAustralia #FederalGovernment #CaseyBriggs
The script for this episode of Liberal drama was written months ago
By Courtney Gould
The Liberals have spent the week embroiled in leadership woes as the party braces for a spill on Friday morning.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-12/liberals-leadership-spill-angus-taylor-sussan-ley/106325872
#GovernmentandPolitics #FederalGovernment #FederalParliament #LiberalPartyofAustralia #PoliticalParties #AustralianFederalElections #Parliament #CourtneyGould
Taylor's supporters say he has the numbers to topple Ley
By Clare Armstrong
Angus Taylor quit the Liberal front bench yesterday ahead of a leadership spill expected to be called against Sussan Ley today.
Liberals despair at prospect of 'non-existence' and weigh leadership change
By Tom Crowley
Sussan Ley could face a challenge to her leadership from Angus Taylor this week after a disastrous opinion poll showed the Coalition parties falling further behind One Nation.
#FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalParliament #PoliticalParties #LiberalPartyofAustralia #NationalPartyofAustralia #PaulineHansonsOneNation #TomCrowley
Japan's 'Iron Lady' leads coalition to landslide election victory
Sanae Takaichi's Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner are expected to hold upwards of two-thirds of the seats in Japan's lower house.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-09/japan-election-sanae-takaichi-landslide-victory/106320228
#WorldPolitics #GovernmentandPolitics #Elections #PoliticalParties #BusinessEconomicsandFinance
UK prime minister's powerful chief of staff quits amid Epstein fallout
Sir Keir Starmer's leadership is under threat after revelations that one of his former US ambassadors had close ties with Jeffrey Epstein.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-09/morgan-mcsweeney-resigns-epstein-mandelson/106320216
#WorldPolitics #GovernmentandPolitics #LawCrimeandJustice #PoliticalParties
"The eclipse of traditional parties has not led to the withering of political activity, however. On the contrary, it has gone hand in hand with much greater politicization. In this decade, politics seems to be everywhere, all at once. In America, the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 were potentially the largest in the country’s history, with some estimates putting the number of participants at over 20 million. Turnout in European and American elections is healthy; protests are recurrent and intense; political violence, including assassination attempts, is making a brutal comeback. On social media, in turn, political discourse has become both omnipresent and diffuse. Clearly, “post-politics” has come to an end.
This effusion often invites comparisons to Gramsci’s time, the high tide of political activism. One fact, however, voids the analogy: Western societies today, unlike during the 1920s and 1930s, are experiencing a continuous erosion of institutional structures. Trade unions, civic associations, social clubs, volunteer networks and churches: All are in abeyance. Both the Jan. 6 riots and the Black Lives Matter protests — to take the two most eye-catching examples of political contestation in America — were large and energetic. But they also proved very short-lasting and birthed neither durable infrastructure nor dues-paying memberships.
The result is a peculiar scissor shape: on the one hand, intense political activity; on the other, continued institutional sclerosis. Where in the 1990s we had parties without politics, we now have politics without parties. This is the strange confluence I have termed hyperpolitics. For traditional political parties, the previous bedrock of Western political stability, it is a lethal tonic.
Nowhere is this more visible than in what some consider the first mass party in Western history: the British Conservative Party."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/opinion/political-parties-west-hyperpolitics.html
#Politics #PoliticalParties #Hyperpolitics #PoliticalSociology
How the Liberals will justify Ley's ousting
By Clare Armstrong
A permission structure has been crafted for Liberals to ditch the first woman to lead the federal party room before she has even had a year in the role.
#GovernmentandPolitics #Parliament #FederalGovernment #FederalParliament #AustralianFederalElections #LiberalPartyofAustralia #PoliticalParties #CommunityandSociety #ClareArmstrong
Will Mandelson be Starmer's downfall?
If it isn't, then British politics is a travesty of democracy.
When a convicted pedophile has better access and more influence to the Prime Minister than most citizens, even when the PM is fully aware, you don't have a democracy.
https://www.newstatesman.com/podcasts/2026/02/will-mandelson-be-starmers-downfall-2
> The PM knew about Mandelson's friendship with Epstein – but still appointed him US ambassador.
Andrew Hastie brought an intriguing book into Parliament
By Courtney Gould
The calamity unfolding in the dissolved Coalition provided a convenient distraction for the government, which should have had a worse week amid an interest rate hike.
#FederalParliament #FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #PoliticalParties #LiberalPartyofAustralia #Parliament #NationalPartyofAustralia #CourtneyGould
John Quiggin doesn’t think #OneNation will ever get to govern, no matter the increasing votes it is currently harvesting according to recent polls, because:
“Hanson’s permanent support base (embittered middle-aged and older low-education regional voters) is not only small, but so different from the actual majority of Australians to whom they refer as “inner-city elites”.
There’s also Hanson’s crazy policies, but since when have policies stopped an ON #RWNJ from running against them?
Let’s hope Quiggin is correct in his assessment. Worthwhile reading what he has to say about it all:
https://johnquigginblog.substack.com/p/liberals-polling-in-single-digits
One Nation SA candidate Cory Bernardi says party will be 'strongest voice of opposition'
By Josephine Lim and Jessica Haynes
One Nation's lead candidate for South Australia Cory Bernardi has taken aim at the "two-party duopoly" in the state, with Pauline Hanson issuing a warning to Labor that her party would be "coming for your seats".
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-03/cory-bernardi-criticises-two-party-duopoly-in-sa/106298630
#PaulineHansonsOneNation #PoliticalParties #PoliticalCandidates #StateandTerritoryElections #JosephineLim #JessicaHaynes
One Nation 'spot the Westerner' video condemned
By Clare Armstrong
A One Nation party official has filmed strangers on Melbourne's streets claiming the city "doesn't look like a Western nation at all".
#Immigration #FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalParliament #Multiculturalism #RaceRelations #PoliticalParties #ClareArmstrong
In the U.S., meaningful centre and left alternatives to right-wing politics do exist — and they matter. This thread series highlights viable progressive parties and movements, their strengths, weaknesses, and how they could work together through coalitions, endorsements, and shared platforms to strengthen democracy and social justice. 🧵
🗳️🌍#USPolitics #ProgressivePolitics #CenterLeft #LeftPolitics #Democracy #PoliticalParties #CoalitionPolitics #AntiAuthoritarian #RuleOfLaw
'Never spoken to Bannon': Palmer rejects influence claim in Epstein files
By Elissa Steedman
Clive Palmer denies newly surfaced claims that his 2019 federal election campaign was influenced by a senior advisor to US President Donald Trump.
#GovernmentandPolitics #Elections #PoliticalParties #ElissaSteedman
Phones to run hot all weekend as Ley's opponents near point of no return
By Jacob Greber
One Liberal source told the ABC a challenge to Sussan Ley's leadership is now a "matter of when, not if".
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-31/andrew-hastie-sussan-ley-angus-taylor-leadership/106288160
#GovernmentandPolitics #PoliticalParties #FederalParliament #AustralianFederalElections #Parliament #FederalGovernment #LiberalPartyofAustralia #StateandTerritoryParliament #JacobGreber
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