Trumpian Coalition is a delightful phrase. The Coalition would stun Americans because it consists of "the liberal party" which is rightist, not liberal, and "the "national party" which is frankly Agrarian Socialist, but very pro mining.The Liberal party is run by an incompetent economist who rorted NSW water rights in his family farm company, and who misunderstood social media enough to post boosters to his socials as himself "well done angus" is now meme-ified, while the Agrarian Socialists are run by a competent Economist (who worked for the productivity commission and actually understands how money works) who is as mad as a cut snake for Nuclear, and opposed to solar and wind because his pay cheque makes it necessary.
The Liberal leader wants to promote highly illiberal policy, the Agrarian socialist leader wants to let mining companies destroy the farming base.
The even more right wing "Pauline Hanson's one nation" party is the actual Trumpian party, noting a mining magnate runs "the Trumpet of Patriots" party which is in turn, definitionally Trumpet-oriented.
4/14/2026
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1:13:01 AM
A very funny but apt and fair assessment.It's certainly been weird to see their silly childish push-back against renewables like solar power. As for wind power though, locally I've heard via some National Party faithful(s) that some wind project are being put in boneheaded areas bundled with very lax governmental permissions, enabling clearing tracks (dirt roads) up to the top of various mountain ridges that no other industry would ever get away with. Boneheaded as there's just as much or more wind on the coast where existing transmission lines already exist.
Popularism is a problem here in Australia as well - who would have thought decreasing / cutting funding (starting around the 1990s) from basic tertiary education and further adult skill education would come back to bite - in particular considering recent state voting, especially the liberals on the bum.
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