Sussan Ley says Australia Day is a day of celebration, likening the arrival of the British First Fleet to Elon Musk's efforts to build a colony on Mars.

In that it was an effort by horrible people to degrade the human condition with no respect for the harm caused along the way sure.

Lmfao how the hell do we have the cult of musk sniffing in Australian politics?

    • NaevaTheRat [she/her]@vegantheoryclub.orgOPEnglish
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      5 days ago

      I don’t think that’s legal here. Australian political campaigns are typically not on the scale of corrupted that usa ones are. Clive Palmer is probably the most dramatic example of someone trying to buy influence and it didn’t work out as amazingly cost effective.

      I also suspect that Murdoch would fight hard to resist any attempt to remove him from his station as political kingmaker in Australia.

      • Zagorath@aussie.zone
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        5 days ago

        and it didn’t work out

        It definitely did work out. He may not have gotten himself elected, but that was never really the goal. The primary goal was always keeping Labor out. Which he did, very successfully, in the 2019 unloseable election.