Julie Bishop confirms Australia will support Donald Trump’s Muslim ban
this is a reminder not to support the australian government, not to ignore the australian government, and not to let major developed countries fall to a deeply fascist regime.
if you live in australia, please call up your local, state and federal members about this now.
Australia’s human rights-violating asylum seeker prison camps were cited as inspiration by senior Republicans, and they’re supported by both sides of politics. Calling representatives won’t achieve anything because Australia is already a proto-fascist nation comparable to Trump’s America as much as we like to deny it.
so first off id like to say that fuck this and fuck the australian governments immigration policies, for years they have been horrific and bipartisan and it really needs to change (the pregnant woman in detention who was being denied medical treatment in australia being the most recent horror in the detention of asylum seekers god its disgusting)
but i think a lot of people who are commenting on this misunderstand the way the system in australia works. we operate under the westminster system which has a few elements that are needed to produced stable governments, and one of these is the party system. australia has two major political parties, the Liberal party (currently holding a one seat majority congratz on that one lol) and the Labor party. i seriously cannot stress how these parties are not ideological. like they have policies that lean right and left but they are pragmatic mainly and therefore need to appeal to the widest voter base possible. so like. top down theres not gonna be anyone really winning favour with the libs or labor by being all fascist-y?? if fascism appealed to a large majority of australians then maybe but history suggests that fascism is more top down than a widespread movement.please remember also that australia is one of like two countries in the world which has compulsory voting. our voter turnout is like 94% im wildly proud of that. australia definitely doesnt have a system that could even be considered a “proto-fascist” country. right wing extremism is happening all over the world and its scary man, but drumkldee turnip was able to get into power thru hateful rhetoric but also like the united states system is really fucked up like thats a post for another day but wow thats some shit did u know they dont have an independent electoral commission?? fucks me up daily.
now pauline hanson and her party one nation is a fascist party. like i truly believe that and i want her and that climate change denier out of the senate immediately. but one nation is a minor party and the australian system tends to freeze out minor parties in the lower house, so the goverment for the forseeable future is either labor or liberal. in the senate the party has 3 seats, and the senate has equal power to the lower house (which whew thats a can of worms lemme tell ya god), but with 3 seats, any extreme legislation is bound to be shot down by like, everyone else, and while they might have some sway if they happen to hold a balance of power over some piece of legislation its… just unrealistic to call the australian parliament fascist.
i dont want to make light of one nation. i think its extremely concerning that this party exists. i think this represents the kind of extremism that australia is vulnerable to and it can also be seen in the reclaim australia movement, which.. is exactly what it sounds like.
and the response from that invertebrate turnbull and the libs abt dungle truffles racist ban has been disappointing and spineless (fuckin typical australian govt and its US arse kissing, one time during the cold war australia was like hey china were not just US puppets we wanna be bros with u and australia put so much effort into foreign policy with china and there was a visit from pres nixon or someone idk and good ole johnny gorton told him “we’ll go a waltzin’ with you” and undermined all diplomacy with china. fucking auspol,).
anyways so no one is safe from extreme racism and fascism at the moment. but seriously, calling australia a proto fascist country is just wrong, like i wont say “it wont happen here” but the united states as a democracy has been fucked up for a really long time and fascism gets into power thru exploitable systems, and australia at this very moment has stable foundation at least, like were having some shit issues with balances of power but if anything that means nothing is getting done in parliament, not that pauline hansons gonna become prime minister or some shit. its really important to me personally that people understand the australian system because i read up a lot about it and god its boring please for my sake if u have any questions please humour me and jump into my ask box
also please. PLEASE call your local member! find them here just type in ur suburb or postcode and click thru, send them letters, petition in ur local area. i live in bill shortens electorate and guess whose gonna #wastehistime2017 its me get ready william. ATTEND PROTESTS please attend protests, stay away from the socialist alternative, probably best to stay away from anything that says socialist unless uve done some research. JOIN AMNESTY here theyre doing some good work you can volunteer your time if you have it! stay vigilant, understand the system, dont buy the hearld sun