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Unlike Count Binface, joke parties can’t run in Australian elections — and that’s serious (thepoint.com.au)

submitted 2 weeks ago by zero_gravitas@aussie.zone to c/australianpolitics@aussie.zone

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Australians think of ourselves as laid-back larrikins, but the major parties have made it nigh impossible for an Australian equivalent to Count Binface to emerge. That’s despite a long history in Australia of joke parties, like the Sun Ripened Warm Tomatoes Party, the Surprise Party and the Deadly Serious Party.

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[–] Shoshin@aussie.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago

What do you mean? Yes they can. The coalition has been running for years.