Dovish wins, and no more fearmongering and warmongering in Australia: Morrison sore loser.
Even, the catastrophic of Liberal Party (Australia) not only because yesterday lose (& Labor Party win). One of prominent Liberal Party, and also Ministry of Defense, and also hardliner support for AUKUS, Peter Dutton failed to wins in Dickson. The winner is female candidate Ali France. Of the 14 seats nationally that have changed hands, 12 have been won by women, one of them is Ali France. Scott Morrison didn’t always “get” women but in the end they got him. They got him good.
So far Labor Party secured 72 seats in the Chamber.
The Liberal Party could yet finish with only three seats in greater Melbourne (because only wins at Aston district) and none in Adelaide or Perth. There have now been more postal votes returned in 2022 Australia Election than there were postal votes applied for in 2019.
For more context: Submarine about AUKUS pact project to be built in Adelaide. Even in the city which a symbolic of remarkable decision by (loser) PM Scott Morrison, Liberal Party still lose and (even) failed to save 1 seat. Morrison has completely burned the moderate brand.
This is emerged complicated situation: are Labor Party (otw to be sworn, new PM Anthony Albanese) will be scrap the AUKUS agreement, when Joe Biden (currently) in South Korea? Jean-Yves Le Drian, France FM, still angry because Morrison scrap a deal submarine with France (worth at least AUS$ 66B), dumps a pile of merde on the Morrison government, welcomes defeat of Morrison, hope Albanese will be repairs immediately policy between Australia and France (*also Australia with entirely European Union, because France is Presidency of EU this year).
Another failure by Morrison beside AUKUS: The Morrison administration released AUS$ 50b to gas companies to frack the Australia Northern Territory, but traditional owners and pastoralists are fighting against it. They say they’re protecting their land, water & future. Disaster of Montara Oil Spill, only several miles from Northern Territory (and create dispute between Australia - Timor Lester) is one of the factor too.
The Liberal party’s experiment with the poison of leftism and progressivism must be over. Australia has rejected its first post-truth prime minister, Scott Morrison. Big moment. Didn’t want to go further down that path.
Morrison himself has accused his rival Albanese of being the “Chinese government’s pick at this election.”
In fact, for Morrison, Albanese is a “Manchurian candidate,” a Cold War-era insult that refers to someone acting for the enemy. Of course, the Prime Minister subsequently withdrew these comments, but by then, he had clearly conveyed to the Australians that the center-left Labor cannot be trusted with Australia’s security.
Actually, in traditional, Labor party have a better policy not only about China but also....... of course Indonesia.
Going by history, the Labor party in Australia does carry a pro-China bias. One of its former Prime Ministers, Paul Keating, is still being quoted in this connection.
Soon after the end of the Cold War, Keating delivered a much-debated speech at a think tank in 1994 that “If we do not succeed in the Asia-Pacific, we will succeed nowhere.” In this regard, he said that Australia had “nothing to fear” from China’s growing influence” and China must be considered a big ally of Australia.
It was again the Labor party whose Prime Minister Kevin Rudd had apparently scuttled, back in 2008, the then-nascent Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, initiated by the then Japanese Prime Minister Abe and supported by India and the United States.
And what was worse, to compound the indignity, Kevin Rudd’s foreign minister Stephen Smith had disparagingly announced Australia’s withdrawal from the QUAD initiative, standing alongside his counterpart from China, given Beijing’s well-broadcast opposition to the “Quad” idea.
Now a Labor – aspirant Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, expressing his keenness to attend the QUAD summit in Tokyo next week means today’s Labor party might have changed his views on China, allegations to the contrary notwithstanding.
As a matter of fact, Anthony Albanese has rejected what he called “an outrageous (pro-China) slur” against him. “The Chinese Communist Party has changed. It is more forward-leaning, it is more aggressive and that means that Australia, of course, must respond,” he told during a debate the other day.
Multiple high-level sources said the funding proposal, prepared by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Foreign Minister Marisa Payne---before election) aimed to harness Australia’s ‘soft power’ strengths to counter China’s increasingly successful efforts to win over Pacific elites. Of course after Solomon Islands agree to strengthen military cooperation with China, and the newest: Vanuatu too (secretly--- May 19 th).
In fact, many foreign policy experts in Australia do think that despite what the Labor and Liberal parties may say during electioneering, there is now broad bipartisan support for most of the substantial shifts in China policy and that both the parties support recent announcements on national security and defense, also widely perceived as motivated by China.
Incidentally, the Labor showed more hostility towards China when it signed a security pact with the Solomon Islands, a Pacific Island nation that also has a security deal with Australia. Labor slammed the deal as “a massive foreign policy failure” that occurred despite warnings that Honiara was moving closer to China.
This is a fundamental realignment of Australian politics, and it has been hiding in plain sight for at least a decade. It was bought into focus by the last three years of Morrison prosperity-gospel awfulness, and last night, the country finally reacted to choose Labor party.
A bad government and a bad prime minister were defeated. Albanese will be prime minister. He'll lead an able team committed to making a difference. And the success of independents and Greens will enliven Australia democracy. Albanese is only the 5th Labor leader to win government from opposition since the first world war, and there’s every indication he will be a consensus prime minister.
The Labor party is also committed to the AUKUS agreement and Australia’s plan to acquire nuclear-powered submarines, Canberra’s interventions into critical infrastructure in the South Pacific, and the domestic manufacture of ballistic missiles. The party has also criticized the Chinese ban on many Australian exports.
The result is a major wake-up call for those who dominate our public culture, our public discussions, that they have been wildly out of touch, and that the media, as with our politics last night, needs a major clean out and reset.
In spite of all the warlike rhetoric (of course AUKUS), Scott Morrison leaves Australia with no long-range strike capability to hold an enemy at bay. None. These are now Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s problems.
