The Hon. John Ruddick
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American politics, presidential politics, you know, putting aside how consequential it is for the world, it's the greatest theatre in the world.
Well, look, the...
Well, it's going to be all about One Nation.
It depends upon what One Nation does.
Now, look, I'm sorry to say, I think, if I had to bet my life on it right now, I'd say Labor and the Albanese government will get re-elected, okay?
That's just because you've roughly got the Liberals, the Liberals and the Nationals, which have been around forever.
Now, you mentioned earlier that Menzies started them in 1944.
True.
But the truth is the Liberal Party had just basically rebadged itself since Federation about three or four times.
It was the same organisation, the same people, the same constitution.
They just happened in 1944 and said, oh, let's call ourselves the Liberal Party.
They used to be called the United Australia Party.
Anyway, so it's been around for a very long time, and it's been a very, very successful political party.
It's been more successful than the Republicans in the United States or the conservatives in the UK, who've been in power over the last 150 years, about 50-50 in the UK and the US.
The two major parties, they split at 50-50, but in Australia, since Federation,
the Liberal Party and its ancestors have governed this country about 73% of the time.
Yes.
So we basically, out of the seven longest serving prime ministers in Australian history, only one of them is from the Labor Party.
But the myth is, oh, you know, it's, well, in our lifetime, we've sort of seen long, we've seen Labor governments, okay, but the Hawke-Keating government, they won five elections.
No other Labor government has won more than two elections, although Albanese has just won two, if he wins the third one.
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