When many people think of 'Bad Government' the ALP immediately comes to mind.
Most states are doing badly, their slack Labor governments try very hard to pin their own incompetence on the Federal government and though they are shrill in their claims, very few really believe them.
To trust the whole country to Labor would simply be too risky.
They are not to be trusted at all.

This is what you hope the Australian people don’t know:
Labor destroyed the Australian economy, and socially engineered Australia almost into oblivion during the short, but insane years of the Whitlam Labor government.
……Labor was a full-on Socialist party, with all the jargon…all the plans for socialising the means of production and distribution….big government owning industries, huge public service making sure the country would be strangled by red tape..all the usual Socialist claptrap.
The union bosses had ensured that their incessant wages push on ever-decreasing productivity had pushed up interest rates in the very early 80’s…all the strikes…all the threats to ‘bring Australia to its knees’ etc.
Then , Labor decided it would be useful, in order to entrench themselves in power, to have an ideology transplant, steal their opponents’ ideology and policies ( those of the Liberal ‘dries’), and float the dollar.
Labor couldn’t handle the result, and we ended up with a roller coaster of manipulation, hubris, panic, boasting , bragging, and general mayhem, that left the Australian economy in a very precarious condition.
Labor failed because it’s rat cunning scheme had been to make the Australian economy its own exclusive province, to make Labor’s special relationship with the Union bosses such an integral part of the Australian economy, that the economy would be completely dependent on deals stitched up between Labor ‘mates’, and of course, those union boss mates would never cooperate with a Coalition government.
So, effectively, they had stitched up Australia as a one-party state ….never mind about democracy.
In doing this, they discarded the chance to make deregulation really work, because a vital component for success was real Labor market reform , and of course the union bosses wouldn’t allow that.
So, by 1996, after all the Keating hubris and shenanigans, the legacy of Labor was : high interest rates…high inflation….record high unemployment…huge government debt ( not private as now)….a downgraded international credit rating.
And the prosperity we enjoy preceded the commodities boom.
The truth is the opposite to your claim