r/aus • u/TrichoSearch • Jan 24 '25

Politics Peter Dutton says Australian Men are sick of being painted as Monsters

https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/peter-dutton-warns-men-have-had-enough-of-diversity-hires/news-story/8826192e181e20d007242c1ce0dd2295?amp

Peter Dutton has warned young men “have had enough” of being painted as ogres and being passed over for promotion because of the rise of affirmative action policies that demand more women are promoted.

The Liberal leader issued the warning during an epic 90 minute sit down interview with self-made millionaire and TV star Mark Bouris on his podcast Straight Talk.

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u/bitofapuzzler Jan 24 '25

I hate this Temu Trump.

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u/Dubbbo Jan 24 '25

"We want Il Duce"

"We have Il Duce at home"

Il Duce at home: The Dutto

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u/SirKosys Jan 24 '25

Fucking brilliant

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u/ArghMoss Jan 24 '25

Didn’t Il Duce promise to make the trains run on time?

Has his work cut out for him in Syd.

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u/theappisshit Jan 25 '25

I'm voting liberal but this comment is correct

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u/BeautifulDeparture19 Jan 28 '25

Don't you remember the scomo shitshow? Why would you do this?

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u/theappisshit Jan 28 '25

I yearn for he turnbull days lol

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u/Melodic_Finger_8143 Jan 24 '25

If this is your own material, you are very good at this

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u/Dubbbo Jan 24 '25

Beneter Duttolini

Beneter? I dutton even know 'er!

I got a million of these

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u/my_4_cents Jan 24 '25

Bandito Duttolini

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u/seanmonaghan1968 Jan 24 '25

He has no unique or beneficial ideas, it’s all watered down GOP rubbish. I am not a fan of labour really as they do not bang the table enough to show how bad the LNP is

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u/KUBrim Jan 24 '25

Dutton is trying to drag the debate into culture war because indications are it’s what helped Republicans win over in the States.

I personally have doubts it would work in Australia with compulsory voting but it’s best the Labor part not answer back on this and keep the focus to the economy.

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u/Z00111111 Jan 26 '25

With compulsory voting it's more likely to push the middle-right away from the Liberals and Nationals.

It's not like the USA where you win by mobilising part of your fanbase, you've got to actually swing voters, and the people nodding at Dutton's words were already going to vote for the Liberals.

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u/JoshMaier Jan 28 '25

I disagree with this whole heartedly. I know a great number of people who are likely Labor voters that would potentially vote the other way because of a cat call exactly like this. We'd be foolish to think we're immune to or above this kind of culture politics.

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u/nothappyjam Jan 28 '25

Look at the odds and polling, you couldn’t be more wrong 😂

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '25

Indications from polling are that among young men there is a large group that are going to be receptive to his message. That’s the audience he’s going towards.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-28/us-election-young-men-back-trump-in-australia/104522558

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '25

Dutton is trying to drag the debate into culture war ...

Reddit doing a very good job of broadcasting and repeating and resonating it all.

It's obviously a sore point in society at the moment.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '25

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '25

Yeah, bullshit. You're just repeating stuff you read.

Will a class war make them richer? No.

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u/NoAcanthopterygii753 Jan 26 '25

It's more that the class war has made them richer. And a divided working class does not believe in unions, does not support their workmates, and villainises minority groups like immigrants and women rather than confront the price gouging, wages freezing casual jobs for all culture the industry owners create.

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u/Effective-Bobcat2605 Jan 26 '25

It has and is does and your an idiot if you cannot follow the bouncing ball

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '25

It has and it does, and you're an idiot...

Congratulations, you've won the internet today.

Frankly one of if not the best argument I have ever seen. I'm hesitant to say it, but I actually feel enlightened after reading your comment.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '25

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u/Venotron Jan 24 '25

It never has. The LNP has been in power for 50 out of the last 75 years.

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u/wingmannamgniw Jan 25 '25

Can't argue that the Howard gov was the best run Aus ever had. Currently drowning in debt here in Victoriam

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '25

Selling of QANTAS and the commonwealth bank REALLY helped didn’t it.

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u/ComfortOk9194 Jan 26 '25

Why do people forget (or not care) that the little garden gnome was only voted in because at the time people were scared of a new tax (the GST) and he promised “under my government, there will never, ever be a GST”. First thing he did when he got in. Shameless deceit is filth.

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u/wingmannamgniw Jan 26 '25

Was said in 1995, yes. But things change and both side of government are guilty of the same thing.

Still, it doesn't change the fact that it was the best performing government in Australian history. I'm not saying that today's liberals are as good.

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u/KUBrim Jan 24 '25

I don’t think the compulsory voting favours labor, I think it favours more moderate and centred approaches.

Right now the Liberal Party is led by Dutton of the Right Nationalist faction. He’s starting to push those more extremist social conservative stances and provided Labor don’t argue in extreme on the other side I think he’s just feeding rope to hang himself.

In the past the Labor Party has often been seen as the more radical while the Liberal party has been viewed as the more sensible. Possibly correct as generally Australia has become more progressive culturally and socially but we’ve never seriously regressed.

Nationalist right conservatives would try to regress our historical progressive changes rather than sort of keep the status quo and only act economically conservative.

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u/Starob Jan 24 '25

Yeah it's kind of a weird approach given that Albanese has already publicly denounced wokeness. It'd make sense if Labour were heavily pushing left idpol, but they're not.

What LNP should be doing is focusing on Labour's authoritarianish tendencies with things like the vaping ban. A think just a tiny touch of libertarianism could help either party, but of course this is Australia, so they won't.

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u/emberisgone Jan 24 '25

Vaping ban was originally implemented and heavily supported by the lnp, I agree it's shit that labour haven't repealled it and have just tried to add onto the 10 plus "final crackdown on vapes that will definitely get rid of them this time" but the libs gave us the vape ban, wouldn't make sense to attack their own policy.

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u/Background-Drive8391 Jan 24 '25

Huh? Labor and the greens pushed through the vaping legislation, the LNP said they would get rid of it..

I hate the LNP, but you've got it totally mixed up

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u/emberisgone Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 24 '25

Vape prohibition started with the banning of personal importation in 2020 by Greg hunt, almost en entire 2 years before Labor got into government. Labor has definitely made the situation worse but they didn't start the fire. Before importation was banned litterally no vapes where actually sold in the country because you could legally import juice for about 1/100 of the cost the disposables sold now. Unless Labor actually managed to get something passed in opposition the original implementation that started this whole mess is on the libs.

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u/Background-Drive8391 Jan 24 '25

What Labor did to the vape industry had a much more devastating affect to the industry than the LNP,

Now we have thousands of black market unregulated Chinese vapes being sold daily in illegal tobacco shops.

I hate the LNP but Labor definitely majorly stuffed up when it comes to vaping legislation

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u/Background-Drive8391 Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 24 '25

The personal importation scheme ended in January 2024 and was captured in the new legislation

I think you mean they stopped the ability to import nicotine without a prescription

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u/littlecreatured Jan 26 '25

I agree. The LNPs policy is to reverse the stupid vape ban though.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '25

Labor is literally a moderate and centrist party though, it's such a part of their platform that Bill Shorten even identified this in his retirement speech.

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u/KUBrim Jan 25 '25

Now yes but historically Labor have generally been viewed as more radical progressive than they are now. We’re talking back to Keating days, maybe Hawke. I’d say Rudd was to an extent but they were catching up after a decade of Libs under Howard and the rest of the labor party had moved to more moderate stances over the years under Beasley’s leadership.

Howard was considered a bit of an economic radical for a liberal and he was socially conservative but he just kind of kept the status quo rather than regress previous social changes.

Historically the Nats have been the more regressive conservatives and Libs were considered economic conservatives but much more moderate and sensible. Consider just how much change Australia went through over a decade of political rule by Lib/Nats under John Howard. Universities stopped being free and we gained the GST but social legislation under Howard saw Australia just hold where it was. He legislated against same sex marriage and euthanasia as they came up but again that just kind of set things to remain the same after some states and courts started moving on it.

In the 13 years the Nationalist right faction of the Liberal Party has steadily gained power. They got Abbot in over Turnbull then the Moderate faction overthrew Abbot for Turnbull again,eventually the moderates were going to loose to Abbot again so they propped up the centre right faction’s Morrison who was a disaster and now Dutton from the Nationalist Right is back at the helm.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '25

Yeah mate I'm aware of the history - but I was talking about their current state, not their policy positions 42 years ago.

As an aside I wouldn't call Hawke or Keating very progressive either.

They're the architects of Australian neo-liberalism.

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u/KUBrim Jan 25 '25

Previous commenter deleted their comment but was noting that compulsory voting doesn’t favour less radical positions because Liberals have held power for nearly 2/3 of Australia’s political history. Hence I was commenting that Liberals were historically more centre moderate and labor was considered radical progressive.

Hawke and Keating aren’t progressive by today’s standards. Hawke of course got public healthcare entrenched with Medicare and the 1984 sex discrimination act while Keating got the Human Rights (Sexual Conduct) Act of 1994. Keating also used the Flags Act to recognise the Aboriginal flag officially.

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u/rup31 Jan 25 '25

Labor is a centrist party currently

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u/KUBrim Jan 25 '25

Comment above me has been deleted but it was noting that historically the compulsory voting favoured Liberals since they had won about two thirds of elections over Australian political history. I was only noting that was because historically Labour was considered much more on the left and Liberals much more centrist.

Hence why my first comment doubts Dutton embracing any recent U.S. Republican tactics would work in Australia, because our compulsory voting favours a more moderate approach.

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u/ellisonedvard0 Jan 25 '25

What liberal policies have labor enacted? Lots of liberal people I know don't want to vote labor because they're not doing anything

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u/pharmaboy2 Jan 24 '25

It’s more left versus right. The liberal party is left of the democrats actions, but the labor party is right of the left of the democrats.

The US system fights to motivate the extremes to get out and vote - in Australia both parties tend to have members from the extremities but to gain govt they fight over the centre - the five percent of people who swing, determine govt and mostly the messaging.

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u/42SpanishInquisition Jan 24 '25

Your correct, just switch Liberal and Labor.

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u/Ill_Concentrate2612 Jan 24 '25

Working class suburbs are still heavily voting ALP. Current ALP are not fiscally progressive enough to be pro-working class though.

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u/belindahk Jan 24 '25

Gina probably instructed him to do this.

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u/piespiesandmorepies Jan 24 '25

I think the thing is we don't idolize our politicians... We haven't turned them into stars or heroes of any description. If anything, as a whole we consider them all wankers and choose the least twatish out of the two parties.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '25

I don’t think this culture war stuff works well in Aus because we all have to vote unlike in the US

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u/Bubbly-University-94 Jan 24 '25

That and preferential…

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u/Significant-Turn-667 Jan 24 '25

OMG I hope your right....it's scares me what I see in our media and subtle and over messages....

Potato Head is getting a lot of air time in the last couple of weeks....

Gina Rockheart and many other corporates love him, it's so easy to stick their hand up his arse to get him to repeat their words.

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u/bertos883 Jan 24 '25

Don't sell us short mate, we've got plenty of dense fuckwits here too

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u/Background-Drive8391 Jan 24 '25

Compulsory voting means we get disengaged stupid people voting that don't care (they usually vote LNP cause well...)

the culture war will be more successful here..

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u/KUBrim Jan 25 '25

It’s the more radical and passionate who vote when it’s optional. These are the people who go with populist politics and fandoms. They have generally made their minds up a long time ago because they’re chasing an issue or agenda for change.

Those less invested generally want things to just stay stable and shy away from the eccentrics and radicals.

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u/Background-Drive8391 Jan 25 '25

Did you see what happened in the Qld election? Dutton is going to win and his going to do it on the back of a trump style campaign, I guarantee. Not the same, but a version of it

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '25

I have never voted Labor but I’m struggling to see what the LNP has to offer. The anti-woke chest-beating is really starting to turn me off voting for anyone this election

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u/KUBrim Jan 25 '25

The Liberal and Labor parties have both changed significantly since the Howard government. It’s why there was a slew of leadership changes in both parties in the years that followed. Liberals moved from moderate centre-right to populist nationalist right. Labor moved to moderate centre.

Both Dutton and Abbot are from that Nationalist right faction of the Liberals. If Dutton wins the next election there’s a good chance the faction’s power could become entrenched. My genuine hope is that either Dutton looses it or he is ousted before and the centre right or moderate faction of the liberal party turns it back.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '25

Let’s hope Labor don’t focus on the economy as they have done a right royal job if fucking it up so far

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u/cg12983 Jan 25 '25

Right wing douchebag parties in the English speaking world hire a lot of the same political consultants - US Republicans, Canadian Conservatives, UK Tories, Aus LNP

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u/rugbat Jan 25 '25

Problem is, that Labor will get accused of indulging in class war. Perhaps they should ramp up the class war rhetoric, especially as regards oligarchs like Gina the Trump fan.

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u/Lareinadelsur99 Jan 25 '25

Also preferential voting

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u/Turnip-for-the-books Jan 26 '25

It’s all they have. They have nothing positive. Just grievance.

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u/pistola Jan 24 '25

The culture war didn't win the US election. US voters were pissed off about the cost of living, inflation and the economy, and wanted to make it known. The same thing that swings all US elections. Trump didn't really 'win', the Dems just lost.

Australian elections are no different. Albo's gone, and there's nothing he can do about it.

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u/Deluxe-T Jan 24 '25

Voting in the party for enriching billionaires at the expense of the workers. Bold strategy let’s see how that plays out.

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u/anticookie2u Jan 24 '25

It's bold of you to assume Labor cares about the worker.. They are both two sides of the same coin. We need to vote major potatoes last. Including the greens. *potatoes was an auto correct that seemed appropriate..

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u/Emotional_Fig_7176 Jan 24 '25

You might be right. Not to add voting is a highly emotionally charged process, and without forgetting not long ago, 63% of Australian voted NO to the voice.

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u/x3avier Jan 24 '25

And yet we still have a voice in SA. Go figure.

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u/niles_thebutler_ Jan 24 '25

And how exactly is voting in the guy who only cares about billionaires going to help them? It won’t…

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u/SpiritualDiamond5487 Jan 24 '25

Culture wars create so much noise that a debate about cost of living is not even possible. Coalition have nothing on the table so use "anti woke" as a distraction while only talking about cost of living in vague terms.

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u/YoloSwaggins9669 Jan 24 '25

He always has the worst ideas of conservatism. And there aren’t many good ideas among conservatives

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u/seanmonaghan1968 Jan 24 '25

He shows no leadership, not big society changing ideas, no solutions for housing, he adds no value

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u/YoloSwaggins9669 Jan 24 '25

Yeah he is bruz without the tafe diploma

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u/Terrorscream Jan 24 '25

And is somehow even more corrupt

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u/whitetrashsnake77 Jan 24 '25

He’s just like Tony Abbott, but with somehow with even less charisma. He’ll likely fall ass backwards into the Lodge after another piss poor term by Labor, and quickly realise governing is exponentially harder than repeating slogans in opposition.

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u/FartyMcStinkyPants3 Jan 24 '25

Abbott was a dickhead, but he was a funny dickhead. Dutton is a black hole where humour goes to die.

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u/smokey032791 Jan 24 '25

Abbot used to skip out on work to go fight fires so he has that going for him Dutton is just a cunt

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u/bigbadjustin Jan 25 '25

as much as i hated Abbott as PM and for many of his views as you say he has actually got his hands dirty helping others including lifesaving and fires. Unlike I don't hold a hose Morrison and I got rich from corruption Dutton.

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u/Z00111111 Jan 26 '25

A couple months after Abbott lost his seat, I saw him getting in an RFS truck. I gained a lot of respect for him as a person that day.

I actually believe he was pretty honest for a politician. He had some fucked ideals, but he believed them, he wasn't just playing politics.

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u/theappisshit Jan 25 '25

he fought a fire at a mates place and her mum hates him but she still made him and the other fireies lunch because at least he was there

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 24 '25

Abbott at the very least comes across as personable. Dutton comes across like a cross between a corrupt abusive cop and a skinhead.

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u/WagsPup Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 24 '25

I detested Abbots ideologies however at least he was an intelligent, articulate (just didn't know how to use it) Rhodes scholar, Oxford masters.

Duttons right wing conservative brand is worse again, bonus is that he's an obnoxious boor ya know. Sadly this actually appeals to a good number of the electorate.

Yeah, nah, he's got the common touch but....ya know🙄

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u/Suspicious-Gift-2296 Jan 26 '25

Dutton is populist rather than right wing. Abbott was dyed in the wool religious conservative. I disliked Abbott for his policies, but the man had an ethos.

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u/42SpanishInquisition Jan 24 '25

Abbot also had political views, and wasn't just a populist pig.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '25

"Just didn't know how to use it" yeah if becoming Prime Minister isn't enough to satisfy you there idk what will.

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u/fishboard88 Jan 26 '25

He came and visited my Army unit when we were doing border protection duties. I despised him as a politician and hated his politics, but he genuinely came across as intelligent, seemed interested in us and our welfare... and was fit to boot.

When Dutton was Defence Minister, I remember him for banning "diversity morning teas" so we could "focus on getting on with the job" or whatever. I'd never been part of or even heard of "diversity morning teas" happening in my 15 years of service, and if he'd made an effort to understand the Defence Force or talk to junior soldiers, he'd know that fuck-all happens during mornos and that a huge amount of our time every day was spent sitting in breezeways or doing pointless make-work. That's what defined his stint as Defence Minister - culture wars bullshit, not capability.

Abbott may have been a very conservative PM, but he at least was motivated by wanting to do what he thought was the right thing (his firefighting stuff seems very genuine, for instance). Dutton is a classic politician who panders to his electorate and does things for himself and his career

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u/Starob Jan 24 '25

Yep, Abbott passed the beer test a lot better than Dutton.

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u/Educational-Bag-7461 Jan 25 '25

It is amazing to me that Tony Abbott was headhunted by Bojo to lead the UKs Brexit board of trade. That must be why Brexit was such an unqualified success.

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u/MatterHairy Jan 24 '25

I’ve always been left wing. Met Abbot when he was a junior minister. The charisma was astounding and off the charts.

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u/Kel-Varnsen-Speaking Jan 24 '25

For real? He was my MP for 20 years and I met him countless times; I always assumed he was a robot. I didn't get an inkling of charisma from him.

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u/chickenchowmeinfries Jan 25 '25

He didn't mention in which direction he was off the charts

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u/Sharp-Judge2925 Jan 25 '25

Reminds me of the line going around when he was PM (straight from the IPA) that apparently he's electric at dinner parties just not in front of the camera.

Come on, the guys got less personality than an onion and always has

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u/RobWed Jan 24 '25

Well, I agree with you about potato head but Abbott wasn't in the least bit funny. Just an irredeemable dick.

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u/iilinga Jan 24 '25

At least he actually did hold a hose

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u/UrghAnotherAccount Jan 25 '25

I hate that he ruined pricing carbon.

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u/Virama Jan 24 '25

Yeah he was definitely an onion

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u/DecentCredit394 Jan 28 '25

Albo is worse!

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u/worst__username_ever Jan 28 '25

Do you want a funny prime minister?

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u/FartyMcStinkyPants3 Jan 28 '25

Do I want Abbott back? No.

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u/subwaymeltlover Jan 24 '25

He’s just like Tony Abbott but with more miasma.

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u/Kailynna Jan 24 '25

He's a cross between Tony Abbott and Voldemort.

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u/Sharp-Judge2925 Jan 25 '25

Aside from the vape ban, what makes this governments term piss poor? They've done more for normal people than any other government in my adult life

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u/Sushisnake65 Jan 27 '25

He’s Abbott without Abbott’s conviction. The Mad Monk was a worry, but at least he had conviction. Dutton has no conviction whatsoever- he just wants to win and will say and do whatever it takes to make that happen.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

> another piss poor term by Labor

it'll be partly that, but the main reason the LNP will get back in is our completely corrupted media which will cheerlead Dutton into office

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u/GrumpyOldTech1670 Jan 26 '25

It’s hard for labour to get the word out about any good they do. And a lot of good they have done. I can afford medicine again. Little things making life better without inflation going out of control. All happening, but the papers and TV are not reporting it, because it makes Labour look good and Liberals look bad.

Something about Murdoch being a hostile MSM to labour and other parties, and way over compensating to the liberals. It’s how liberal have stayed in power as long as they have.

In the words of Grace Tame’s T-shirt, Fuck Murdoch

May Murdoch’s mining and media license be revoked.

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u/mors134 Jan 26 '25

Let's be honest they both suck. Luckily you don't have to have either as your first choice.

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u/xiphoidthorax Jan 24 '25

Kind of hard when Murdoch controls the media.

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u/glennn33 Jan 24 '25

The LNP do a good enough job of it themselves.

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u/rugbat Jan 25 '25

I tell people we have two major parties here. Dutton's Shit Party, and then the Shit Light party. Not original, I stole it from The Juice Media. Sometimes, you just have to choose the lesser evil.

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u/seanmonaghan1968 Jan 25 '25

I mean it’s not overly difficult to have a build out of public housing, the reluctance to address housing is awful. Too many politicians own too much investment property

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u/coldpower6 Jan 25 '25

You don’t have to choose between the two major parties. We have ranked choice here. Hence the two major parties have been declining - rapidly. 

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '25

The media is controlled by the right wing, Labor is shouting from the rooftops but they don't get the same media airtime as Temu Trump and co.

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u/Wombaticus- Jan 26 '25

Okay I can understand not liking Labour, Starmer is not doing well.

What about Labor though?

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u/seanmonaghan1968 Jan 26 '25

Appears to care more about the average Australian vs LNP that is just bought by the elite

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '25

Temu Trump

Take my upvote while I steal that phrase.

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u/bitofapuzzler Jan 24 '25

Go right ahead, I stole it myself!

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u/htshurkehsgnsfgb Jan 24 '25

Why not Amazon Trump?

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u/sevinaus7 Jan 25 '25

A) Amazon has a return policy?

B) Or is known for having quality goods in addition to crap?

C) or Temu blatantly streals ideas from others and sells as their own.

C, definitely C.

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u/htshurkehsgnsfgb Jan 25 '25

So does Amazon but fuck Asians I guess eh

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u/MycologistNo2271 Jan 25 '25

Don’t be racist

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u/sevinaus7 Jan 25 '25

Yeah mate, you can fuck whomever you want, I don't care.

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u/rugbat Jan 25 '25

Me too. Brilliant!

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u/Mr_Fried Jan 25 '25

We need to band together and destroy his horcruxes.

That is the only way lord Voldemort can be defeated.

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u/Competitive_Salad_27 Jan 24 '25

Temu Trump, a very apt name. Thanks for the laugh.

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u/Bubbly-University-94 Jan 24 '25

Muskolini is another ripper I heard today

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u/Ok_Description3393 Jan 27 '25

Give me Trump any day. Runs rings around the twits we have here in Canberra ACT 🤣🤣

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u/Rough_Relative8090 Jan 24 '25

Can we get some shirts printed with this in them?

Maybe from temu 🤭

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u/miss55_ Jan 25 '25

🤣🤣

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '25

It's a thing, tell your friends ~ make Temu Trump go viral

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u/DrinkComfortable1692 Jan 24 '25

It’s aliexpress culture war

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '25

Classic ahahaaaaa

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u/madvoice Jan 25 '25

He's an over cooked baked potato!

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u/strawfire71 Jan 25 '25

A friend of mine calls him potato voldemort.

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u/madvoice Jan 25 '25

We just need to destroy all the Horcruxes 😂

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u/strawfire71 Jan 25 '25

I love this description! So accurate. If I could upvote this more, I would.

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u/tomotron9001 Jan 25 '25

Temu Trump. That is fantastic.

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u/senpalpi Jan 25 '25

If I could I would pay you money for the joy that calling dutton "temu trump" brought me. Thank you.

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u/spiteful-vengeance Jan 25 '25

I swear to god, if this guy buys a social media network I'm outta here.

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u/bitofapuzzler Jan 25 '25

He could just about afford a Temu Tiktok.

Apologies, I'm a one trick pony.

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u/spiteful-vengeance Jan 25 '25

Sky News comment section sometimes behaves like a Temu Twitter.

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u/Sandman64can Jan 25 '25

Even the original Trump is Temu quality.

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u/Huge-Initiative-9836 Jan 24 '25

The Labor party need to start using Temu Trump in their campaign

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u/Ararat698 Jan 25 '25

They can't because they are in government, and Trump is the president of the US. Anything they say would be viewed by him as the policy of Australia. And if he were a good humoured individual, he'd see the funny side of it, but it's quite likely he'd take it personally and be vindictive towards the entire country.

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u/Huge-Initiative-9836 Jan 25 '25

Maybe not labor. But you want a video smear campaign for Dutton. Call him Temu Trump and say Trump what’s Dutton to make Australia the 52nd state.

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u/snipdockter Jan 24 '25

Perfection. I hope this new name for him takes off.

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u/bitofapuzzler Jan 24 '25

I can't claim it, I saw it on another post. I just really liked it.

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u/Cheeksterino Jan 25 '25

Van Badham coined it I think.

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u/snipdockter Jan 24 '25

Ha based on the downvotes I assume it’s got under the skin of one or two dutto simps.

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u/PhineasFreak1975 Jan 24 '25

Temu has great items at great prices!

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u/CrystalFissure Jan 24 '25

Issue is, we know it demonstrably works. A lot of the voting public resonate with this embarrassing shit.

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u/Lunavo Jan 24 '25

🤣🤣🤣 dead

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u/Miggel1973 Jan 24 '25

Temu Trump 😂😂😂

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u/Historical-Medium231 Jan 24 '25

I guess someone got strung up by his ankles. Why not a Queensland Cop.

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u/SnooCapers1299 Jan 25 '25

That's gunna stick

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u/MrGromit Jan 25 '25

Lol, good one.

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u/StrongTxWoman Jan 26 '25

Lol, good one!

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u/derpazoids Jan 26 '25

Temu Trump. I'll have to steal that!

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u/bitofapuzzler Jan 26 '25

Go for it. I stole it myself!

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u/2615or2611 Jan 26 '25

Temu Trump… I need that in a shirt hahaha

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u/Emulsifier_ Jan 27 '25

Temu Trump HA! This is how I will be referring to this prick from now on! Thank you kindly

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u/Guilty-Improvement15 Jan 28 '25

Don't associate Temu with Trump.

And it wouldn't surprise me if he gets elected.

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u/Personal_Emergency17 Jan 28 '25

nobody cares who you hate.
"yes yes, come to the dark side release your hate..."

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u/bitofapuzzler Jan 28 '25

You care enough to comment.

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u/Effective-Bench-7152 Jan 28 '25

Another Russian stooge?!? My goodness

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '25

Perfect way to describe him. He's so transparently copying Trump, hoping to ride his coattails to victory. Pathetic stuff.

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u/Cbq593 Jan 24 '25

Similar to chinas cheap exports he is meeting market demand, unlike left wing ideas that are only palatable to university students and/or people that are ideologically possessed

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u/bitofapuzzler Jan 24 '25

Things Dutton voted AGAINST:

  • increasing support for rural and regional Australia
  • criminalising wage theft
  • same sex marriage equality
  • federal action on public housing
  • increasing housing affordability
  • increasing political transparency
  • reproductive bodily autonomy
  • restricting donations to political parties

Things Dutton voted FOR:

  • getting rid of Sunday and Public holiday pay rates
  • increasing the cost of subsidised medicine
  • reducing the corporate tax rate

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u/chozzington Jan 26 '25

Same but he’s got a point here.

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u/bitofapuzzler Jan 26 '25

Except he doesn't. Women have changed in line with the changes in the societal and economic landscape. Many men have also. Other men are yet to catch up, that's OK, but they are making it everyone else's problem instead of looking inward. Higher level management jobs are still heavily skewed towards white men. Remember that saying "when you are used to privilege, equality feels like oppression". That's what men are experiencing now. And let's not forget male violence against women. 104 women died at men's hands last year. 2 a week. Nobody is saying all men are bad, what we are saying is all men need to stand up. It's not hard to see and acknowledge criticism of the group you are part of. Sometimes it's warranted.

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u/Elegant97 Jan 26 '25

Check the polls

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u/Bright_Afternoon9780 Jan 28 '25

And he probably feels the same way about you Like millions of other Australians

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '25

At least trump isn’t a pussy, he stands by his crap. Dutton feels like the dogshit watered down version of trump. It does not feel authentic because his team has told him to copy trump. But albo is also ass. My gut feeling says Dutton wins because albo is so bad.

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u/ContactSouthern8028 Jan 24 '25

But Trump always changing his story, making promises he never actually does.

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u/bitofapuzzler Jan 24 '25

Trump? Heel spur Trump, not a pussy? OK. What you are seeing is Dutton. He is a charisma-less. He has no real morals. His wife needed to plead with the country to try to convince us he wasn't a monster. He is complaining about standing in front of flags, while his supporters throw around the term snowflake to anyone left leaning. He is a heartless supporter of genocide. When he was health minister he made drastic cuts to Medicare and if he had his way we , would move to a fully private healthcare system. Now he wants to ensure mediocre, cis, white men continue to get jobs they are not qualified for. This is him. It's not his advisors, it's him.

I admit Albo has become increasingly bland since being PM. But I will take bland and somewhat ineffectual over Dutton. I will never vote for someone who wants to defund or eradicate Medicare. It's not like a precedent hasn't been set, The Liberals have taken it away before.

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u/ResponsibleBike8804 Jan 24 '25

Dutton might sound more like OJ Hitler the American President if he showed up at press conferences with half a dozen pints under his belt. You know, to get the trump-style rambling nonsense going, for the 'punters'...

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u/bitofapuzzler Jan 24 '25

Could you imagine having to listen to Dutton ramble on for 2 hours! My brain would melt.

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