The Guardian view on Australia’s federal election: progressives must vote strategically | Editorial

The Australians know that the government on May 3 will have to move in multiple crises.

At home, the living cost crisis makes daily life millions. The costs of high housing in the sky closed the younger Australians from the life that their fathers took as a Muslim by it.

At the international level, the big holidays in the White House breaks the foundations of economic and security policies in Australia.

Both parties admit this.

However, they reached this electoral battle with Peas solutions At home, there are no clear responses to the disturbances abroad.

Each of them has policies to try to help younger Australians to housing, for example, but does not touch the tax system that contributes more to Australia’s situation that does not envy it as one of the lowest housing markets at reasonable prices in the world.

Every promise to increase defensive spending, but has no clear plan to reset the security, defense or alliance policy, including AUKUS, which was developed to a different world-where the United States was a reliable ally, and the post-Second World War matter remained in place.

The seizure of promises to put money in the pockets of voters (reducing a tax on the highest level and relief from the energy bill extending from the Labor Party, and a temporary tax discount and 25 cents of a liter of fuel for one year of the alliance) necessarily modest, due to the risk of catching 22 for the sake of many additional estimated spending, which leads to the payment of interest rates to some extent in the budget, in order to stay on that to do so to do so to do so to do so to do so to do so to do so More to a degree.

But the competing promises often seem tactical, aim to cancel the electoral election feature strategically, instead of forming a part of any clear and convincing vision of how to determine the next clear risks.

This does not mean that the main party’s main offers are distinctive.

On global heating, the option is shocked. The Labor Party has ended contracts from Australia from the failure of the shameful climate, the legislation of emissions, investment in renewable energy sources and storage, and helping the industry to turn into fuel from emissions.

In contrast, the alliance would reflect most of these measures. He promised to meet the goal of 2050 emissions with a fleet of government -funded nuclear reactors to be operated a decade ago An unreasonable and unreasonable excuse Not to do anything in the meantime, instead to increase Australia’s dependence on fossil fuels and slow down the renewable energy crew.

The policies of the Labor Party to help the buyers of the first homes will put less pressure on the prices of homes than the coalition, and the party has reduced the load for families, with tax cuts and policies on childcare, energy bill discounts and changes in the laws of the workplace.

Peter Daton match the promises of Anthony Albaniz with higher appointments to the visits of doctors and medicines, but the parties have competing ideas to address the mental health crisis and there may be an advantage in Mr. Datton’s plan to increase the number of psychology sessions counted with medical care.

In general, it seems that the platforms in this campaign have left voters disappointed and disappointing, and in many issues, progressive voters wanted to work more bolder.

None of the main party is studying an increase in the unemployment payments that worry about poverty, which will reduce the pain of the most severe living. Despite the promises taken by the recent elections, the Labor Party has not determined the environmental protection laws in Australia and has no clear plan to do so, while the coalition will weaken the laws more. The Labor Party did not provide any kind of vision to recover the nation after the catastrophic failure of the original sound of the parliament referendum.

Mr. Albaniz came to his position in 2022, the promising of fixed reform, which focuses on working families. He can claim that he has handed over it legally.

He is not a fascinated leader, but he grew confidently in the hostens, and he has gone into a somewhat cautious efficiency to rehabilitate the voters’ doubts about his leadership, according to the published opinion polls.

Mr. Daton, in contrast to that, he has Running a bad campaign and The polls appear on the voters who like it less As they see it more. It is a natural communication naturally than Mr. Albanez, but it was difficult to follow exactly what he was trying to say. The coalition policies were announced late, sometimes without details, sometimes they were reversed or contradictory.

The opposition leader rejected the small tax reduction of the government on the basis that the country could not bear any tax reduction, but then it offered a “discount” at the last minute of his own. He promised to cut the amount of immigration, but it was not clear about the parts he would cut.

The coalition may be hoping that Australia will follow a violent reaction against clear job occupants in many elections around the world, but this campaign coincided with the anxious chaos that Donald Trump already governs, and this appears to have erred in the alliance, which began the year in the convincing polls.

Mr. Dutton soon described any policies similar to DOGE, although the unreasonable promise to save money by reducing 41,000 from 70,000 Canberra Public employees.

When the campaign entered the last week The term “hate media” borrowed To describe the electoral coverage of ABC and Guardian Australia, apparently to hold his campaign.

It is not “hate” but the evaluation of the facts that teach the Guardian Australia that Mr. Dutton does not seem ready for leadership and that the coalition has not proven the political cohesion necessary for the active government.

Mr. Albaniz has retained the gradual gradual change league. It realizes that reducing despair and disappointment in Central Australia is the key to avoiding the utmost polarization sweeping the world.

It is aimed at the majority and that result may be on Saturday.

But the judgment is very constantly risking the loss of faith with voters who are desperate for life to be different.

About a third of Australians plan to vote for a party other than one of the two specialties, others for Paulin Hanson or the trumpet of patriots, but many for vegetables, blankets or progressive independents.

Mr. Daton said he will be ready to negotiate to form a minority government and his two sons It is closely involved with advanced right -wing parties Among his conservative predecessors in preference transactions.

Opinion polls indicate that the minority workers government is a more likely result, and requires support for the gradual assembly on the traditional table to pass the legislation It can pay the work To stare in acquired interests and pay the most daring solutions. Remember that it was the government of Julia Gilliad minority that finally legitimized the carbon price.

Many voters all over the world, who are fighting undermining democracy and the repentance of popular Autocrats, will highly envy the relative calm of An electoral campaign disappointing.

Progressive Australians are left with strategic options. If they believe that the country is better to present it along the path of gradual change, they should vote for work. If they want to vote strategically, and understand the risks not to know the final makeup of Parliament, they may choose vegetables, wild ducks or other alternative candidates in the hope of electing the minority workers’ government with a gradual intelligent acceptance that pushes it to move faster.

The ruling stability will be extremely important as Australia faces global waves and crises and Caprice for President Trump, but it is also correct that amazing solutions for chronic inequality and social problems helped fuel this popularity in the first place.