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No you have to wait until after the election so the LNP can go "oh did we say +$8.5M we meant -$8.5M, classic sign error sorry lmao."

Not that I'm aware of? Technically the king/queen is head of state and that term is until death, can't get much longer than that.

Agreed that PM is different, they don't weild the same power the US president does. But in terms of time, Robert Menzies was pm for a total of 18 years and John Howard was pm for 12, so you can be for a long time. Politics have just been much less stable in the last 20 years.

It probably depends how much fractional power and money is behind the PM. John Howard was PM for a decade after all.

Well Australia doesn't have a president. But in theory there's nothing stopping someone from being prime minister for infinite time, provided their party doesn't stab them in the back or their party doesn't lose the election.

TIL Australia is not a sane democracy.

Just something Charlie kirk made up.

When your face is that small, everything else looks much bigger.

Australians were educated enough to not be misled.

I guess no ad can ever be misleading then? You can just say whatever and argue this?

It might make it more difficult to run a scare campaign, arguably like "mediscare". But if Labor is worried about not being able to lie a bit I get the feeling they're about to see just how outclassed they really are.

I think the right has been emboldened by their success in the US as well and is dumping more money into the campaign this time. For instance advance has a shitload of money to throw at LNP opponents and have absolutely no problem lying or astroturfing movements.

Yep, this is true. It comes down to the media in this country.

Which makes me pose the question, where the fuck are Labor and the unions on opening or supporting friendly media?

I agree RE the friendly media, but also the teals did propose a truth in political advertising law that may have been able to clamp down on some of the bullshit. Because you better believe that the lnp is using the same dickheads that Morrison used for political advertising.

I was honestly hoping that people would see trump, see Dutton trying to emulate him, then go "ahh no maybe not."

I remember reading that the government was hoping that because we run a trade deficit with the yanks they wouldn't do this. Look forward to that just being the assumption and the government having done 0 planning.