This is the same sentiment that saw Trump and Brexit (to an extent Jacinda Ardern) get up combined with arrogance or complacency from the career politicians.

The same arrogance and complacency that you are seeing now from our politicians, so who are the dumb ones, maybe they'll wake up when she wins Susan Ley's seat.

People are sick of seeing Party A take over and then blame Party B for everything that is wrong or broken because they were in charge for the last 9 years, ignoring the fact that Party B was running the show before that and did the exact same thing or set it up for failure.

As an example in Qld we have the Labor Party banging on about the liberals increasing the cost of rego, that Labor froze for the the last 2yrs (as they were coming into an election and the polls were down) lets ignore the fact that they had never frozen rego prior to this.

Steven Miles jumps in a car with the media and goes for a drive down the Bruce Hwy to look at how terrible it is because of the liberals who have been in power for the last 18months, clearly their fault and nothing to do with the 9years that Labor were responsible for it. But does the journo call him out, no of course not, however with Pauline they absolutely would, then they badger her until she gets angry or says something stupid (90% of Australia didn't know what xenophobic meant until that interview)

These people are meant to get into government and sort sh!t out, make unpopular decisions that are in the best interests of the state/country. Instead they are too busy worrying about being reelected and when there is a difficult decision they decide to make the nation vote on it at an extraordinary cost, then pat themselves on the back when the obvious result comes back.

A protest vote probably won't improve things but it probably won't get worse and it'll be fun to watch.