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Even though I care not for the spud, after Trump and the shenanigans about stolen elections, I am proud that I live somewhere where elections are called and there is some basic civility around the gracious defeat speech then the victory speech. This might be the bottle of bubbly talking...
He handled that well, I can give him that. On what's clearly a challenging day for him personally, he's been quite dignified in defeat
I think we sometimes forget how good it is here compared to other Global North countries, especially in regards to elections, and our voting rights.
The book From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage has a great history on voting in Australia and how it compares to other countries
Yes! I have read that. Was great
Ooo I'll have to give that a read! Thank you! ๐
It was nice to see a regular professional concession speech again.