, Columnist
How MAGA Tactics Sank Australia’s Conservatives
The landslide win for the progressive Labor party showed Trumpian rhetoric is no substitute for cohesive policies.
Anthony Albanese’s victory shows Australia’s future, for now, is Labor.
Photographer: Brent Lewin/BloombergAustralia’s conservatives fought and lost the weekend election on the MAGA hill. The historic win of progressives, less than a week after a similar result in Canada, showed Trumpian rhetoric is no substitute for cohesive policies.
Instead of convincing voters it was the best choice to address worsening domestic concerns and deal with a changing economic order, the Liberal-National Coalition’s flirtation with the MAGA brand failed spectacularly and delivered a historic second term in a landslide for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s center-left Labor Party.