What Canadians Can Learn from Australia's Election ft. Mitch Alexander (The North State Podcast)
Digging deeper to see what Australia's election can really teach us
This week on The North State, bona fide Aussie Mitch Alexander returns to discuss the fallout from Australian and Canadian elections. Both right-wing party leaders lost their seats and centre-left parties formed government. But the environment surrounding these results are similar, so we talk about how they played out. RSS feed here.
Description
After Australians confirmed a massive majority for their Labor government, Canadian journalists and pundits agreed: anyone who compared the two is a genius. Now that the dust has settled, it's important to not move past lessons we can learn from each other. Half-victory lap, half-cogent analysis, this week on The North State is a closing of the discussion begun on The Down Under State to compare each country's respective elections and what each of us can learn about the current political moment. Mitch Alexander, co-host of the Australian Radical Online Leftist Pipeline podcast, PhD candidate and vocalist of metal band Eye Of The Enemy, rejoins Scott to talk Dutton and Poilievre's loss, Labor and Liberals' gain and a surprising carbon tax connection.
Clarification: I mentioned the Bloc Quebecois being a factor in the 90s Liberal landslide but did not make it clear that the Reform Party, which was the right-wing Western split of the Progressive Conservative federal party, also contributed greatly to the change in the electoral landscape.
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Sources and Further Reading
'A win': Anthony Albanese claims victory in 'Vegemite-gate' - Sky News
Canada election: Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre loses seat he held since 2004 - The Guardian
Australia PM Albanese makes stunning comeback with landslide win - BBC News
How Canada voted - in charts - BBC News
Why Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre moved out of his office, but not Stornoway - CBC News
Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives have a residential school denialism problem - Canadian Dimension
Peter Dutton apologises for boycotting apology to Stolen Generations - ABC News
Shane Bazzi wins appeal in defamation case over Peter Dutton tweet - The Guardian
The Peter principle: how Dutton’s election campaign in Dickson went horribly wrong - The Guardian
Nationals call it quits on decades-long coalition with Liberals - ABC News
Liberal MP celebrates ‘rollercoaster’ win, flipping Quebec seat by one vote - Global News
Is it R.I.P. for the federal NDP? Not quite, experts say - CBC News
Why young voters flocked to Canada's Conservatives - BBC News
Liberals will table a budget this fall, Prime Minister Mark Carney says - CBC News
Carney holds 1st press conference since Liberal election win - CBC News (14:35-14:40)
Greens’ election hubris – how the minor party lost its way and now its leader - The Conversation
New Zealand shifts right as voters punish ruling party - CNN
Canada’s Carney unveils new cabinet with ‘primary focus’ on economy amid US tariffs - CNN
King Charles will visit Canada, deliver throne speech to open Parliament - CBC News
Reform UK strengthens polling lead as Conservatives drop to fourth place - The Independent
NDP insiders are trying to fix the leadership race for an establishment candidate - The Breach
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