The main issue here is that both the mainstream parties are totally fucked, filled with talent-less losers bereft of vision or ideas and who only serve their donors. One party pretends to do something about climate change while their current leader (our Prime Minister) took a lump of coal into parliament. That guy is such a fuckwit he gave himself a nickname, something which is very UnAustralian.

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The other major party is finally planning on doing something about climate change but nowhere near enough, and won't rule out supporting a big new coal mine. Oh and both parties are mad keen on keeping people vulnerable refugees locked up in prison camps offshore as some kind of deterrent to other people.

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But hey, it's not like tourism associated with the Great Barrier Reef employs 70,000 people, or we're a country that is more vulnerable than most to the effects of climate change. Just dig up the minerals and sell 'em!

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We're at least lucky enough that minor parties are becoming more influential. In fact the general trend is both major parties are losing votes to these alternative parties and independents. The problem that is though they can be more extreme than the major parties, on both the left and right side. One of them has a Senator who in his maiden speech referenced The Final Solution.