Commentary
The 2022 election saw both Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese play the same game—cling to the political centre and attack each other’s personalities rather than their policies. This meant there was little differentiation between the parties for voters to choose from.
Soon after, the results came in, with voters rejecting bland, centre-ground politics, which saw both the traditionally centre-right Liberal-National Coalition and centre-left Australian Labor Party (ALP) suffer historically low first preference votes.
Only 36 percent of voters gave the Coalition their first preference and 33 percent gave theirs to Labor. Although Labor did “win” government on the back of preferences from the left-wing Australian Greens, they should be deeply concerned, given only a third of the population actually supported them….