"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."

H. L. Mencken

With economic conditions unravelling here and overseas and a plethora of single issue, economically illiterate independents champing at the bit to be the most teal, Australians are going to get it good and hard.

Hold on tight and batten down the hatches.

We live in very exciting times. I'm glad to be alive
in today's Australia. The people triumphed at this
election and politics in this country will never be
the same. The rusted-on voters are a minority. This
election has shown that communities and issues do matter
and to ignore them politicians do so at their own peril.
Democracy is alive and well! Exciting times ahead!

Democracy itself is about as healthy as a nursing home full of covid positive residents.

Thank you for all comments, including the several ones from Foxy.

Well, what a wonderful shot in the arm of Australian democracy at last.

In spite of the multimillion dollar Murdoch-Palmer-Coalition misinformation scare campaign, the voters told the Conservatives where to go!

Now it will be critical for Labor to implement the Senate Committee's recommendations on media ownership to overcome the domination of the media by the Murdoch empire and to penalise media misinformation and secure independent and adequate funding for the ABC and SBS.

With Dutton in charge, the Liberals could become a Fascist Party goaded ever further to the right by Murdoch's ultraright media clowns.

The danger is that as the Libs are likely to increasingly lose touch with reality, they'll become a dangerous democracy-undermining force as it has happened to the Republicans in the US.

There Murdoch's Fox News acts as the media inciter for the undermining of democracy, hence it is critical that Murdoch's continued attempt to hijack democracy in Australia too be nipped in the bud.

Steele Redux said-

Despite the corruption which has seen us so dramatically drop in the international corruption index (now 18th), and having Taiwan over take us in the democracy index and us falling from above 9 for the first time last year...

Answer- I suspect that Taiwan is much more Nationalist and Capitalist than One Nation

Hi Andris,

Thank You for mentioning me in your post.

This election was a tale of community strength and
spirit. Scott Morrison when asked about this election's
results said - well, people wanted a change. They simply
wanted to change the curtins.

Well as Niki Savva stated - the people did more than just
change the curtains. They bull dozed the house!

Talking about the state of democracy? There's an
interesting article by David Hardaker of Holmes a Court
coming up against the Murdoch machine. The Murdoch media's
relentless attacks on the teal candidates and in particular
on Simon Holmes a Court.

It's worth a read.