We’ve done it, we got rid of another soulless right wing politician!
Peter Dutton first made his party lose this election and now also lost his own seat much like Pierre Pullover
We’ve still got a government that green-lit new coal power plants in it’s last term, screwed over the Aboriginal community with a poorly run referendum, and still doesn’t give a shit about climate change, but baby steps hey.
TIL Australia has mandatory voting!
And if I recall correctly they can vote online as well.
No online voting but postal votes, early voting centres, call in voting for the disabled, and plenty and accessible voting centres are all very good things to keep our democracy healthy.
And democracy sausages!
You can vote online if you’re overseas. I know because I did it like a decade ago while sitting in a Madrid airport lounge, having only just discovered that an election was happening. It was a local council one though.
Well you can’t vote in the federal election online.
https://www.aec.gov.au/election/fe25/overseas-voting-locations.htm
Local and (some?) state elections, sure. I voted in the NSW state election online while living in London, after having unknowingly missed voting in the previous one while in Tokyo, thereby having the state revenue service after me when I got home months later 😅
Federal still requires you to rock up to a polling place (usually the embassy), or postal vote.
Yeah nah. Sorry.
"Can I vote online?
No."
Annoyingly the official AEC site just says voting is closed so I can’t link you to the canonical answer
https://www.aec.gov.au/Voting/ways_to_vote/
EDIT
Ahh this is probably what you’re thinking of I suspect
https://elections.nsw.gov.au/online-services
You can fill in the form to get a postal vote online
Congratulations Australia! Love from Canada.
Just to be clear for any non-australians, the conservative party was the opposition, we have voted to keep our more progressive party.
Although the opposition leader did also lose his seat as stated above, which is a nice bonus
Fixed
Good, that dude is giving me Murdoch regen vibes
Peace out sucka
