Disclaimer: as you’ve likely picked up from Twitter, I’m obviously biased. I’m not going to make much of an attempt to avoid that.
The Australian Federal Election is happening this Saturday. The likely outcome is that our new Prime Minister will be Tony Abbott, a conservative, bible-loving, homophobic misogynist. He’s the leader of the Liberal Party, who aren’t really very good at being liberal. Hence, in Australia, there’s the distinction between big-L Liberal and small-l liberal. The Liberal Party has an ongoing coalition with the National Party, who are also conservatives (perhaps moreso) with a focus on the bush (anywhere that isn’t a city). Together they’re known as the Coalition (yes, I know, it’s imaginative, but they save their creativity for how to best fuck over refugees, women, the poor, and generally anyone whose skin colour isn’t white).
They’re not in power at the moment though – the party running the country currently is the Australian Labor Party (a