Despite appointing a shadow minister for government efficiency, Dutton also kept Adelaide Liberal MP James Stevens in his role as the shadow assistant minister for government waste reduction.

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    11 days ago

    Quite possibly.

    OTOH, compulsory voting and preferential voting does blunt a sufficient tactic of the oligarchical right: using adtech data to identify large numbers of individual voters in key electorates and then microtargeting them with tailored advertising/promoted content to encourage them to turn out (if they’re leaning right-wing) or stay home (if they’re progressive). Telling lefties to write “FREE GAZA” on their ballots instead of voting would have a much higher barrier to uptake than telling them not to vote, if that were legal, and those disgusted with Albo’s centrism can put any number of hard-left protest parties in front of him, as long as they put Labor before the Tories.