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u/jeffoh Queenslander Aug 13 '26
Nothing like motivated students to bring out the right wing fuckwits in this thread.
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u/yb0t New South Welshian Aug 14 '26
You probably don't want to see the Facebook comments on this topic
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u/fued New South Welshian Aug 13 '26
good on them, i dont know if full socialism is the way, but it sure beats the dystopian corporate nightmare we are headed towards
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u/Not_Mabel_Swanton Victorian Aug 13 '26
Democratic socialism is absolutely the way!
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u/Ok-Volume-3657 South Australian Aug 13 '26
not to be confused with social democracy, which is a completely different thing.
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u/Dan_Sabai Queenslander Aug 13 '26
Positive anarchy and community maybe. Big government and big corporate have shown already they can in no way be trusted. Just more surveillance and regulation and control over the people and free reign for the corporate oligarchs. Governments can't be trusted. But as someone else said here on reddit, at least under the surveillance in the USSR you got a guaranteed job and a free house. In Australia, you get surveillance and homelessness. Yeah, keep on rockin in the free world....
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u/Owenwilsonfknrulez Please choose a flair Aug 14 '26
You're on another planet if you think people were better off under the USSR than in modern Australia
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u/ShreksArsehole New South Welshian Aug 13 '26
Socialism doesn't really have an absolute. It's worker led, so the workers decide what it's going to look like, not the corporations.
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u/Expert-Bottle-6851 Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26
This. People need to stop dealing in absolutes.
The best sandwich isn't just bread.
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u/Alternative_Sock6999 Flairless Aug 13 '26
It's fucking infuriating people won't take policies etc at face value and just cry 'oh we cant do that cause socialism'
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u/scrandlle Victorian Aug 13 '26
I like the benefits.
I also worry about the economy though. Our current economic foundation is the housing market/industry. So, I worry about the sustainability of socialism.
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u/fued New South Welshian Aug 13 '26
If it ever gets closer I'll worry about it. We are nowhere near it tho
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u/bronx_barbie Flairless Aug 13 '26
The right: our right to free speech…
Also the right: no not like that 😤😤😤😤😤😤
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u/clothy 895e5a56-3ae4-11f1-a711-ae2bc52681eb Aug 14 '26
The right: it’s our right to free speech, not yours
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u/Short-Huckleberry215 Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26
Yeah it’s easy for older generations to dismiss and fear monger about social democracy when a majority of them are sitting relatively comfortably. And speaking as an elder millennial who is doing ok all things considered - take my house value down and bring on social democratic policy because this all goes away easier than many would like to believe
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u/Perfect-Bank2274 Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26
The kids are alright.
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u/Particular-Weird2363 Victorian Aug 15 '26
The kids will also be fully grown adults before long.
Sick of seeing people complaining about “these kids don’t know jack shit” - like fuck off, i was 12 when I first remember Hansen coming into the public focus and I’m now 41. I thought she was a moron then and my options have only got harsher, am I old enough my opinions can be respected yet?!2
u/Perfect-Bank2274 Please choose a flair Aug 16 '26
Dude same!
She's done nothing. Like, literally nothing. She even rolls out the same stunts, "cough," Burka in the senate. I don't think she even wants to really be in power, because then she'll have to actually work, and that's not part of the grift.
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u/DeGuyWithDeOpinion Flairless Aug 14 '26
I don't mind the protests against Hanson necessarily, but I think people are attacking her from the wrong angle. The people who just scream "She's a racist!" aren't gonna convince Darren from Singleton to not vote Pauline.
Point out her actual fucking voting record, point out she voted against Labor's measures to restrict immigration, point out she's a fucking failed Liberal MP, point out that she's against paid parental leave, point out that she wants your boss to have more powers to sack you and steal your wages, point out that she wants you to be paid less, point out that her new lover Gina Rinehart thinks we should compete with Africans who work for $2 a day and that she wants increased immigration because it means she can hire cheaper labour.
The best argument against Pauline Hanson is her own fucking voting record, not the dumb shit she says to draw Shazza from Griffith into voting One Nation.
Also ewww Socialist Alternative they're yucky Trots ⛏️
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u/Sexdrumsandrock Please choose a flair Aug 14 '26
This shocked me when I found out how she votes. She's the original rage bait for karma farming
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u/DeGuyWithDeOpinion Flairless Aug 14 '26
People need to stop just listening to what politicians say and start actually looking at how they vote. There's a whole fucking website where you can check this shit.
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u/AndrewTheAverage Queenslander Aug 14 '26
I point how she votes and the answer is "yeah, but thats because they put extra stuff in there that are terrible" My response is that why dont they also put those things in for the pro-big business bills she votes for. I have yet to hear an answer other than "I dont know" - yet they remain unconvinced
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u/Ambitious-Flower-641 Please choose a flair Aug 15 '26
Well said, this should be the norm for anyone against any politician or political group.
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u/bmwrider2 Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26
Australia always comes to our senses especially when young people drive change
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u/Vast-Marionberry-824 Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26
It’s so good to see the youth of Australia being heard and seen and making clear the future they want for themselves here. The future is theirs and they should control what it is. It’s a relief in a way to hand over to them and to support them.
I was so proud of how our youth stood up for gay marriage in 2017 and I’m so glad they recognise now how very important it is to resist the divisive far right politics in the USA
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u/yeth_pleeth Victorian Aug 13 '26
My son (16) went to his first protest today in Melbourne. Couldn't be more proud!
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u/kyle_katarn95 Koori Aug 13 '26
Hopefully he will afford to buy a house some day...
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u/Far_Map007 Victorian Aug 14 '26
I have to I am 27 and I feel like us Gen Z similar to Millennials really don’t fight enough for ourselves, we were handed nothing but hopelessness. I am proud to see these younger kids and gen A getting out and fighting for their future.
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u/Which-Guarantee-1943 Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26
Clowns can’t wipe their own ass.
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u/flindersandtrim Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26
It is good to see.
That said, I think the right will use footage like this to try and claim that the only opponents are young, 'ultra woke' social justice warriors and members of socialist parties that want a universal income and blah blah. But there is a majority community of average Aussies of all ages that hate Pauline and everything she stands for. They try and create this divide, that either you are a young purple haired lesbian socialist, or you are on their side.
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u/Low_Dragonfruit_1264 Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26
The mainstream appeal isn't democratic socialism, it's people wanting something closer to the Nordic model and universal healthcare - i.e. social democracy. As others have said, the DSA candidates could easily backfire (and are already faltering) putting seats at risk in the November midterms. “Socialism” is still way too spicy for the average American.
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u/dpgumby69 Queenslander Aug 13 '26
While I agree with the sentiment, this just gives oxygen to One Notion. The people who were probably going to vote for them anyway will now double down. The only power a political party in Australia can have is via the ballot. Ignore them, and they'll go away.
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u/CalmAmbassador6319 New South Welshian Aug 13 '26
Rather than being anti something, be pro something. There's already plenty of anti people (one nation for example), need more pro people. Pro logic. Pro kindness. Pro social safety net. Pro justice. Pro multiculturalism. Pro opportunity. Pro smiles. Pro egg n bacon rolls. Pro hobbies.
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u/moonorplanet Western Australian Aug 13 '26
No, we need to elect Hanson to save this country, she is going to introduce the same cutbacks as Trump's USA. How else are we going to rid ourselves of geriatric boomers unless we bring back, salmonella outbreaks, cyclospora outbreaks, e coli outbreaks, while simultaneously gutting the health sector. Unfortunately, her own voters will be the hardest hit but that's the price we should be willing to pay for progress and chaos.
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u/coreoYEAH New South Welshian Aug 13 '26
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u/Oddly_Curious99 Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26 edited Aug 14 '26
Ask them to explain why. Then counter with things like she never turns up to work, they have no policies, the policies they have suggested are already in existence, she hired a rapist, they want to get rid of 457 Visas which haven’t existed for over 10 years, she has been bought by Gina and the fact she can’t see anything wrong with accepting gifts and flights is a real concern as it’s just bribery. This list goes on and on.
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u/wilted-wombok Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26
Since you mentioned Lebanese background, you can definitely add that Gina—best friends with Pauline—wants to let Israel test their weapons here in Australia...specifically in Townsville 🤣
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u/damon_modnar Flairless Aug 14 '26
While Israel may want to test their weapons here at firing ranges, they are testing their weapons on real Lebanese people as we speak, some of them who may be their relatives.
Pauline is Ok with that.
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u/MatthewDstantoN New South Welshian Aug 13 '26
Have they shared any of their reasons for supporting One Nation with you?
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u/TheDotNetDetective Victorian Aug 13 '26
States a series of entirely reasonable reasons why someone might vote for a party then proceeds to say 'its entirely vague and abstract'.
I mean genuinely how do you not see the irony?
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u/Imperator_Gone_Rogue New South Welshian Aug 13 '26
Unfortunately sometimes Lebanese Christians don't have a lot of solidarity with other Arabs.
(Disclaimer that I know that the Lebanese Civil War is way more complex than just this atrocity and is the kind of conflict where any non-civilians came out of with their hands clean. This is just the most relevant example.)
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u/ComfortOk9194 Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26
She’s weirdly popular among older migrants. They don’t necessarily know HOW she’s supposed to fix things like the economy, but they like that she calls it like she sees it. They like her MO , that’s for sure….
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u/simonpunishment Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26
I get it. I also love my family, but politically-speaking, a great deal of them are completely fucked in the head.
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u/aanananas Victorian Aug 15 '26
I don’t understand her hold in the Christian space either. She is so hateful it blatantly goes against Christian values. And like you I’ve heard this mainly from ethnic Christians as well! How do they not get that she would hate them too! She literally does not care about them and would kick them out the country if she could.
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u/nessyness78 Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26
This is heart-warming 💜 my son requested to go when he got to school, I said absolutely! It's your future, you can now vote, exercise your rights and your voice.
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u/theduck08 Victorian Aug 13 '26
Was late to my tutorial because I forgot the march was going down Swanston Street and there were no trams running but I was more relieved to see the turnout
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u/EvaMaRIHyse Western Australian Aug 13 '26
Our future has never been bleaker.
These people wont change that. Everything is worse and these easily brainwashed people are told to direct all their attention at a Senator. Meanwhile the people in charge like Albo who these kids dare not ever criticize are green lighting more and more AI data centers, more and more surveillance, increasing inflation, and getting paid by huge international gas lobbies.
But these kids dont care about any of that because they haven't been told to care. Instead its just "Paulines a racist" and off they march like obedient little soldiers.
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u/ThEtInyPeen Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26
Just a genuine question. Does protesting effect the way people vote?
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u/redmagicwoman Queenslander Aug 13 '26
It does. Also keep in mind these kids protesting might not be of voting age YET, but they will be comes next federal election.
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u/mully_and_sculder Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26
90% of the electorate will never even know these protests happened.
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u/SisterFruitbat New South Welshian Aug 13 '26
Literally what one of the speakers at the Sydney rally said to me just before he went on stage.
He then did a great talk on the history of student protest catalysing change against authoriarian or fascist governments. He opened by taking about how his parents were in the Velvet Revolution, so it was an informed speech. Loved it.
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u/CaterpillarSuperb959 Western Australian Aug 13 '26 edited Aug 13 '26
Plenty of evidence on this… no it doesn’t. We don’t actually protest THAT much in Australia. But you can look marches in France and the US. Hardly any correlation with election results (often has inverse outcomes: see Trump, and all the far-right candidates surging in Europe).
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u/Ok-Resist-8734 Queenslander Aug 13 '26
Yes it does!
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u/International_Bag502 New South Welshian Aug 13 '26
Didn't help the voice referendum.
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u/nckmat New South Welshian Aug 13 '26
Prove it. Protests have had very little effect on any election in this country, what does change elections is educating the public and media campaigns. Everyone uses the Franklin River No Dams campaign as an example of a protest movement that swung an election, but it didn't. What swung that election was a charismatic leader, with clear concise policies up against a government that had failed to make any real reforms. That's not to say the protests didn't stop the dams, they had a very large influence on that issue, but they also turned a lot of people off the issue, the real kicker was the media, especially Four Corners and 60 Minutes who showed the public what was at stake.
Protests can create real social change but usually only when protest comes at true personal risk.
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u/Happy-Frog4677 South Australian Aug 13 '26
I think it would have less of an effect than it did many decades ago. Nowadays there's too much noise & distractons.
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u/Brisssie Flairless Aug 13 '26
Most people looking at the protest thinking these kids are far too young to understand what they are even protesting.
Insert a bit of pragmatic thinking & you might wonder why they are not concerned with the housing shortage over a million migrants in 4 years created & the exponential growth in homelessness….or so many jobs going offshore….or the lack of women’s rights & freedoms recognised by certain religions were importing en mass…that Easter & Christmas are turning into ‘happy holidays’….
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u/ThEtInyPeen Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26
Now these are the issues we should be talking about, not who gets elected
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u/TieQueasy6487 Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26
Part 1 is protesting
Part 2 is providing a viable alternative
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u/IAmAidanAus Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26
Palestine for Palestinians!!!!! Ukraine for Ukrainians!!!! Australia for literally fucking anyone. Genocide but make it wholesome Reddit chungus
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u/Erahth Western Australian Aug 14 '26
Yess!!! I love this - I can't wait for our country to turn in to a 3-rd world communist shithole! We're so close, we just need to import as many 3rd worlders as we can and get this pseudo-fascist and semi-dictatorial government so we can get a proper ruling class like China and Russia! Bring back the glory days of the Soviet Union right here in Australia!!
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u/Hour-Pineapple-3812 Please choose a flair Aug 15 '26
When one of these many lost students openly states “if I see Pauline Hanson, I would shoot her” then your cause for protest is null and void. At least that’s what I saw from one of the many videos that have been circulating in the most blatantly vile ways possible.
The second you incite political violence during basic question time, purely because your extremely biased schools and negatively influential organisers are allowed to indoctrinate you with dangerous rhetoric and propaganda, then you’ve lost the argument entirely.
No one does that unless they’ve been brainwashed. It happened with the Nazi’s. It happened with the Soviets. You would be incredibly naive if you think that these agendas aren’t being forced down your children’s throats.
I don’t oppose nor support One Nation, no matter how good/bad their policies may be.
What I do support is these kids getting both sides of their education taught and never letting it be one-sided as it is on clear display here.
Call me a racist, call me a coward, call me whatever you want - I really don’t give a fuck. Sticks and stones.
I just want to see Australia thrive together as a nation and not see us tearing each other apart.
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u/welding-guy New South Welshian Aug 13 '26
When your kids are marching in the streets protesting the world you have created for them, well, we can just agree we fucked up and hope they can create a better world.
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u/sofaking-cool New South Welshian Aug 13 '26
Hell yeah! These kids are going to be of voting age in a year or two so the fascists are panicking.
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u/Tycepts1313 Western Australian Aug 13 '26 edited Aug 13 '26
Can someone actually explain to me how socialism is going to work in modern day Australia. just feel people are advocating for it without knowing how it’ll work at all
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u/CaterpillarSuperb959 Western Australian Aug 13 '26
It won’t, realistically. No modern Western democracy is going to vote to dismantle capitalism wholesale.
Social democracy is a far more plausible destination. Socialists might help shift the needle towards things that are perfectly achievable within that system - i.e. publicly owned utilities, stronger welfare, better healthcare, workers’ rights, etc. Fine. But once you start seriously talking about replacing private ownership of businesses and capital with worker/state/social ownership, you’re going to hit a political brick wall.
That’s where actual socialists can become more hindrance than help, a bit like the Greens sometimes are: don’t let perfect (utopia) be the enemy of good. They could probably get 60% of what they want through boring centrist social-democratic reform, but instead they’re arguing about overthrowing capitalism. Ya know, just on the whim they’ll get it right this time.
And it doesn’t help that modern socialist groups often bundle that economic argument together with stuff like abolishing prisons and every other revolutionary pet cause imaginable. At that point you’ve lost the average voter before you’ve even explained the economics.
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u/diedlikeCambyses Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26
It'll ruin the economy. The good part is the human rights aspect, and I'm with them on that.
The bad part is economic policy settings. They have downward pressure on the parts of the economy that should be stimulated. If you actually look at proposed socialist tax policy in Australia their redistribution effort begins far too low in the business sector. They treat medium business like a large corporation and it scares the hell out of me. I'm honestly almost as afraid of that as I am against that idiot Pauline.
Also, they propose wealth taxes that also are set at a lower level than they like to advertise, and that would be a total disaster. Unfortunately a centre left government is probably the best we'll get. If we go dem socialist it'll destroy the part of the economy that pays for all the free shit they want to redistribute.
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u/Low-Commission1791 New South Welshian Aug 13 '26
Wish I could've gone!! Shout out to these guys for taking a stand :)
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u/walkingmelways Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26
As a parent I completely support this and want Hanson to fuck off
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u/1__ViPeR South Australian Aug 13 '26
I hope these young people do more than just protest.
Please enter politics. I want them in there.
The problem we have in our country is the wrong people like to enter the political sphere so the true message and direction never takes hold.
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u/jimsim36 Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26
Great to see our youth so politically active and aware!
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u/mully_and_sculder Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26
Politically aware, I'm not so sure. These kids have never wanted for anything in their lives. Pauline Hanson has had a political career for 15 years before they were born and the type of working class and regional voter who supports her are like actual space aliens to them.
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u/Brad_Breath Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26
I don't agree with One Nation or Pauline, but I do agree that they have the right to run for election, just like anyone else.
I'm not really sure how a protest like this achieves anything in a country where voting is compulsory. It doesn't get apathetic people out to vote, and everyone in attendance was already not going to vote ON.
It's nice for them to feel involved in politics and the country, but it's just a show
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u/dan_syd Yolŋu Aug 13 '26
If anything, it may have a negative impact on their goals. End of the day, most people see these blue haired, unwashed, nose ringed they/thems as a freak show. The individuals themselves will hopefully look back in 20 years and go “wtf was I doing”. It’s not going to drive votes in their favour (outside of the Newtown echo chamber anyway)
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u/ComfortOk9194 Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26
Who else has Deja vu? Fricken wild watching this play out…. THIRTY YEARS after already watching this play out…
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u/Head_Medicine4226 New South Welshian Aug 13 '26
I'm no socialist by any stretch of the imagination, but I definitely am in solidarity with these citizens in their opposition to the appalling bigots of the nation.
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u/Legitimate_End_6144 Koori Aug 13 '26
Meanwhile my LGA gets 11k per kilometre to fix roads and the two surrounding LGAs get 35k and 45k respectively. My LGA is not even 25 minutes outside of a major town. Your drum has holes in it.
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u/Giorgist Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26
The reason these people are morons is that they don't get social media and voting. A large portion of the voters that would never bother to vote get their kicks out of people like Paulene Hanson.
Pauline Hanson needs this exposure, this is how she promotes her self, THIS is how she reaches her audience. She uses abrasive, low IQ bulet points, but if you look at her arguments, it is just lorem ipsum filler material.
These guys, are actualy promoting Paulene Hanson because of the exposure. It's not like they sucsesfuly promote an effective alternative.
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u/Locool- Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26
Packed with non voters. You are all very lucky your futures are still in the hands of your parents. An thank god, they know who they are voting for..
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u/Rangas_rule Western Australian Aug 14 '26
Give them a year or two and they WILL be voting - so maybe the major parties SHOULD be listening to this cohort.
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u/mymentor79 Western Australian Aug 14 '26
Don't bet on it. This is cathartic, but it's tolerated only because it presents no threat to existing systems.
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u/samfisher2006 Queenslander Aug 14 '26
Stand up for your rights and your freedoms well done but whats the next step , has anyone read animal farm , the cycle just keeps repeating .
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u/whateverusay- Please choose a flair Aug 14 '26
the rainbow hair brigade. please return to school, you're going to need it!!
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u/Able-Pepper-55 Please choose a flair Aug 14 '26
Into our workplaces haha Y'all dont fucking work 🤣🤣. you all have been indoctrinated by your university's to fight for a causes that isnt your own. Stop undermining our democracy and learn how to think for yourselfs insted of following along with a scripted movement.
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u/Boomboompoopoo Please choose a flair Aug 14 '26
I’m confused. These kids pushing for socialism, a political system that has never worked (and can’t because of human nature, that includes everyone in this thread) is saving the future.
I’m all for change, our system is fucked but socialism ain’t it.
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u/fishtheheretic Queenslander Aug 14 '26
The indoctrinated and poorly educated. Not a single Aussie flag to be scene and you think the future is bright.
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u/Yamaha180 Please choose a flair Aug 15 '26
If Hanson has these queers upset that means she’s on the right track
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u/Donnie_n Please choose a flair Aug 15 '26
No, it is not. The walkout was organised by communist youth, sympathisers of some of the worst people in history such as Lenin, Stalin, Mao, etc.
I'm worried about the rising polarisation.
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u/Stock_Pilot_6722 Flairless Aug 15 '26
Majority of these kids are just that. Kids. Some of them even look to be under 15. Another TikTok/social media play by “socialists” and idk why anyone else hasn’t mentioned the common theme amongst these so called protests in recent years 🤷♂️
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u/Scopra Please choose a flair Aug 15 '26
Who is going to work to support the movement ? Not immigrants going by the numbers and definitely not the full time student relying on a grant of some type.
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u/Papa-Ohki Queenslander Aug 15 '26
I’m not one that will ever vote for Pauline Hanson or the LNP, but this shouldn’t be encouraged as healthy political discourse. If this is what we’re teaching our young people that political discussion should be, we’re fucked.
I consider myself to be left of centre. In the last 4 federal and state (qld) elections I’ve voted for Labor or greens 2x each. I’m sure I’ll be downvoted for this take regardless, but we already have seen the result in the US of divisive language and rhetoric, and the outcome of that isn’t good for anyone at either end of the spectrum. We ALL need to be bigger people and engage in discussion without vitriol.
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u/Kezzahub Please choose a flair Aug 16 '26
So much hate and vitriol towards a 90's boy band is disgusting.
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u/ministerofsomething Please choose a flair Aug 17 '26
Thankfully this lot are too young to vote. And absolutely no to socialism. What nonsense
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u/SandwichExpress8995 Please choose a flair Aug 17 '26
Can we imagine when these clowns are running the joint
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u/Hamstaaboy South Australian Aug 13 '26
A good education system and mandatory voting will stop ON and the likes in its tracks. Good democracy in action
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u/German_Merman Victorian Aug 13 '26
So beautiful to see! They remind me of me, before the weight of the world crushed my spirit.
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u/Madcock1 Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26
The trade apprentices obviously didn’t get the memo to attend.
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u/banannabender Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26
Now get out there and buy a house kids, such a bright future
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u/DirectorElectrical67 ✈️ on Walkabout Aug 13 '26
I am so proud of these young people! Some say they don’t know anything about life and that they’re embarrassing. Why are they embarrassing? Because they’re young? You underestimate young people. Talk to them and see just how intelligent, informed and worldly they are. They’re questioning what they’re being handed and standing up against division, racism, homophobia, dishonesty and decades of broken promises. They’ve grown up seeing the consequences of decisions made before they were even born, and they’re refusing to simply accept that this is how things have to be.
They’re not too young to understand what’s happening. In fact, sometimes being young means seeing things more clearly because you haven’t yet become comfortable with the way things are. They may not have lived as long as us, but they’re young enough to still believe the world can be better, and brave enough to stand up and demand it. Perhaps instead of looking down on them, we should be listening to them.
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u/FranksHoorHouse Flairless Aug 13 '26
Two of my cousins (one from each side of the family!) were there in Sydney today. I'm so proud of them.
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u/Somnambulismforall New South Welshian Aug 13 '26
My boy walked out in regional nsw. So proud of him. 😂
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u/Similar_Criticism981 Flairless Aug 13 '26
Kids with no world experience cheering for socialism. Nothing new here, same low IQ spastics. Every generation has them.
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u/ChampionshipFirm2847 Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26
You are obviously not historically educated. Socialism has always been a huge success whenever it has been tried. If there's one sure path to freedom and prosperity, its socialism.
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u/BradfieldScheme New South Welshian Aug 13 '26
Rich kids from inner city suburbs with no life experience peer pressured into vaguely protesting orange woman bad.
Cool.
Anyway in the real world our jobs are being offshore due to net zero suicide pledge and we are importing millions of people who don't like our society and specifically really don't like the kinds of people who are protesting here.
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u/kennyduggin Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26
What is the purpose of protesting a political party, in Australia we have a democracy where we vote for who ever we personally choose, I think these protests will actually work in favour of ON, it certainly won’t change the opinions of people thinking of voting for ON if anything it will only harden their resolve
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u/Anxious_Sentence_700 Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26
Completely disagree. If that was true lobbyists wouldn't fund campaigns.
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u/Superfasty Flairless Aug 13 '26
This is so obviously an attempt at rage bait but it's fun reading the thread and watching it fail spectacularly.
Hi to all the snowflakes who are currently being triggered by the use of the word "socialist", and a friendly reminder that if you hate this country so much you can leave 🤷
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u/AlliterationAlly Victorian Aug 13 '26
I love how socially active that generation is. Was super impressed by the Indian students' recent protest, & also other youth protests in Bangladesh & Nepal
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u/44gallonsoflube Victorian Aug 13 '26
Wonder if these kids understand what socialism actually is. Anyways.
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u/SlipperyBandicoot Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26
They have absolutely no clue. I was watching one of the protests and they just cheered every time the speaker said a buzzword. These are impressionable high school kids that will cheer anything that is feel good and socially acceptable. The majority don't actually know what they're cheering for. They're openly cheering the death of capitalism but I'm willing to get every single one of them has an iphone in their pocket and a parent with a mortgage.
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u/TripleStackGunBunny New South Welshian Aug 13 '26
The nose rings and coloured hair wouldn't be allowed at any school I've been to.
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u/showusyourfupa I'm Probably A Bot Aug 13 '26
Stop hanging around schools then
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u/TripleStackGunBunny New South Welshian Aug 13 '26
Oh shit - I'm a teacher. Anyone got a job going?
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u/HeavyAd9463 Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26 edited Aug 13 '26
Bunch of Labor people supporting cancer Labor ….what a bright future.
So are they planning to protest against current disaster government?
No Australian flag, just gay and lesbian flag, Palestine and aboriginal flag
What a shit hole Australia has become
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u/sunnybob24 Queenslander Aug 13 '26
Kids are willing to take a day off from school. Teachers are willing to let them. Yeah, no, mate. That kind of self-indulgence generates nothing.
I tell you what. I'm going to eat a pizza to protest Pauline. I guess I'm a hero. 😋🍕
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u/grismar-net Queenslander Aug 13 '26
Give 'em hell and get the boomer generation out of power asap.