The Liberals seem to be kaput, with the likes of their Victorian president saying that they have to go further left to get elected! Even the surge of a dinky di right wing party like One Nation has no impression on the sad sack Liberals.

Blind, deaf, and dumb.

Federally, the Liberal and National leaders are ganging up on One Nation and helping Labor to stay in power. They are idiots! Unfortunately, average voters suffer from the same complaint when it comes to politics, and despite what they say in polls, they are not to be trusted either.

Under Ley and Littleproud, the Coalition aligned with radical Albanese Labor and against voters' welfare. Under Taylor and Canavan, no perceptible change. Couldn't they at least pretend to be an opposition?

The Libs seem to be more aligned with Labor than conservative. Andrew Hastie gets touted as too far right then turns into "Hate bill Hastie". A total bunch of clowns thinking that they will solve their problems by going woke and attacking One Nation.

Its clear that a large minority of the nation have totally lost faith in the two party system and are searching for an alternative. I think Graham is right in pointing out that the mismanagement of the covid 'crisis' was the catalyst for the awakening.

There is little doubt that there has been a general loss of faith in the political class and indeed the whole expert class. Despite the 'experts' telling us that all was well with the supply of petrol, panic buying ensued because few believed the government or their experts.

As they search for alternatives to the ALP/Lib duopoly they land on OneNation. to their credit OneNation has had a run of right calls over the past year or two that has endeared them to their natural constituency. They understand that immigration is the root problem. Unlike like the majors they can call out the immigration problem because, unlike the majors, they don't have ethnic supporters who they don't want to offend. So they can say what a large minority thinks and wants to hear.

Ditto on power costs. The major parties can't admit they got renewables wrong for the past two decades. OneNation can.

Ditto on covid. Both majors bought into the crisis claims, the lockdown mania and the merry infringement of civil liberties and can't walk that back. One Nation can.

And so One Nation and Pauline pilfer large numbers of votes from a Liberal Party that doesn't really know what it does or should stand for and a smaller number from an ALP that has the interests of minorities as its central goal.

Still I don't think One Nation supporters, in the main, see Pauline as an alternate PM or One Nation as an alternate government. Pauline isn't Trump and One Nation isn't MAGA. These are protest votes, not a revolution.

But if the majors, particularly the Libs, don't come to their senses, all that could change.

Australia is in for a very rough decade as the world order that so favoured us unravels. And as that happens, protest votes could become desperation votes

You are on to it Graham. Very very few people don't know someone that at very little they suspect died or were maimed by mrna. I know numerous who either died, had strokes, heart attacks and more recently turbo cancer. In my eyes the tga/aphra are filth. They knew early on the shots were totally ineffective and took people's lives (including kids). How many were killed off in old people's homes is anyone's guess. Of course, most involved that were complete cowards want to forget the crimes. Other people were made to die alone, banned from funerals and the filthy Government/media divided society. God help them when they stand before God unless they repent. Other than murdering the unborn (which the shots also did) this is the biggest crime of my lifetime and many culprits (cho's) have been rewarded for pure evil

Rubbish. Its just the cooker vote finding its natural home.