Brian Peacock wrote: ↑Fri May 27, 2022 9:56 pm
I'm curious as to whether the election result is just the usual back-and-forth swinging between the major parties or if it perhaps represents more of a cultural shift away from neo-liberalism. I imagine the Murdoch media has come out all guns blazing on the new broom?
The combined share of both parties has gone down considerably - the Liberal coalition by a lot, Labour a little. The teal independents won a swathe of previously liberal-held seats, in affluent suburbs, Labour picked up a few, and the Greens increased their vote in the inner city, winning one extra seat. The National party held on to all their rural seats. The minor right wing parties increased their vote a little. Basically, analysts are saying that the result confirms a growing distrust of major parties and existing political structures, mostly from voters concerned about inaction on environmental issues, but to a relatively small degree from the Trump-like looney right, who won no seats, even though their vote was slightly up.
The results from the Senate will take a long time to come in, but will probably include a large number of members either independent or from fringe parties of the right, plus maybe more Greens. Hopefully, the Labour government will be able to assemble enough votes there to get their legislation passed in the upper house...