One important irony of the federal election result is that while some finally realised that electing Peter Dutton was an invitation to open Australia as a branch office to implement Donald Trump’s authoritarian domestic political agenda, the re-elected Anthony Albanese government will continue to materially support Trump’s foreign policies and wars, including the genocide of Palestinians, however much they violate international law.

It is also ironic that the difference between Labor and the Coalition on all the major issues, including climate change and its impacts, socio-economic inequality, teetering public infrastructure and the horrendous defence-foreign policy sell-out to the US war machine, was tissue-thin.

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It was only Dutton’s import of Trumpism into the Coalition’s domestic political agenda which sent them into oblivion.

All these issues, except the spectre of Trumpism as an internal wrecking ball, were duplicitous exclusions from the election campaign, by Labor-Coalition agreement.

“Duplicitous exclusion” was used by political philosopher Mark Warren to demonstrate how political corruption exists in 21st century “western democracies” by denying knowledge to voters to make an informed vote.

The most reprehensible of these exclusions was Australia’s bipartisan agreement to censor the issue of........

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