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Unlike Count Binface, joke parties can’t run in Australian elections — and that’s serious (thepoint.com.au)
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Australians think of ourselves as laid-back larrikins, but the major parties have made it nigh impossible for an Australian equivalent to Count Binface to emerge. That’s despite a long history in Australia of joke parties, like the Sun Ripened Warm Tomatoes Party, the Surprise Party and the Deadly Serious Party.

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[–] 6 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Joke parties can run, they just have to have to run on a "normal" name.

I can see why, eventually there would be an Albanese sucks party or slurs against minorities

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    I can see why, eventually there would be an Albanese sucks party or slurs against minorities

    ...except that doesn't happen in AU/UK.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    extremists are becoming bolder the past few years

    and there is foreign interference in democratic processes from adversaries

    democracy is an agreement and to protect democracy there must be limits or loop holes will be exploited

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    In the 2022 Victorian election (first one post-lockdown) there was a party called something like "Get rid of Dictator Dan". Dan Andrews was the premier at the time, his support of the health department's recommendations on Covid-19 made some people obsessed with him.

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