(09-04-2018, 12:07 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Tristan/Tee-jay it sounds like Australia is experiencing much the same things as the USA. My impression has been that Australia does better than the USA on many indexes, and has been more progressive on some issues. I doubt it will go the way Hungary is going, because Australia like most anglosphere countries has a longer history of democracy. Hungary's is really only a couple of decades old. If the millennials can get active and act on their situation, the labor party can take over and move Australia in a better direction soon. The "liberal" (neo-liberal) party seems to be imploding and losing popularity. But things are unstable, it seems, most everywhere, so we can't tell for sure what will happen.
The cosmic trends that indicate a progressive decade ahead in the USA may not fully apply to Australia, but they will in part at least.
I wished I shared your optimism, although our Liberal (neo-liberal would be a more accurate description) Party is on the verge of disintegrating at any moment.
If Peter Dutton had replaced Malcolm Turnbull instead of Scott Morrison that process would have started. Since Dutton was going to take the party into a direction the Republicans have under Trump. If that had occurred the genuine Liberals in the party would have revolted and the party would have split. I do not discount the possibility if the Labor wins the next federal election (due by May 2019) and the Liberals enter into opposition, an another leader could take the party into a Trump style direction.