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Our schizoid political parties

The end is nigh

21 May 2022

9:00 AM

21 May 2022

9:00 AM

The 2022 election has demonstrated again the failure of Australia’s principal political parties to face the fact that they cannot honestly serve two masters.

In trying to do so they are deceiving their base and through their duplicity are gradually making themselves irrelevant.

This is demonstrated in the collapse of their primary vote and the number of people who do not vote or who even avoid enrolment.

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