Australian politics is about the preferred two parties.
Whose preference?

Australian politics is about the preferred two parties.
JF Aus,
Well, I see it as supporting the lesser evil !

Individual,

Yes but who controls the two party system?
It's supposed to be a democratic system.

A lesser evil could be to develop a patchwork coalition like Israel did recently to be rid of controlled power.
A coalition of middle of the road fair and decent independents and individuals resigned from existing parties could join in teamwork to form a patchwork coalition in Australia. Surely.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/14/whos-who-in-israels-new-patchwork-coalition-government

It would be great if we had politicians being chosen
on merit not on party membership.

Supporting the "lesser evil" (individual) is all we have been doing, and all we can do, given our preferential voting system, which precludes us from giving bad politicians a fright. Besides, the Liberals are as evil as Labor these days; and the average voter is either lacking the intelligence to place preferences where they might work, or they are just plain lazy and disinterested in their own futures. We can, of course, refuse to vote for any of the bludgers. If enough of us did that, it could make them think and perhaps look for better quality candidates - or, better still, have candidates front up to the public and show why they should be nominated in the first place.

In the meantime, I will be again writing "none of these" on the HR paper, and spending the time on voting below the line on the Senate paper - no party politicians included if possible.

>Morrison is so pragmatic that nobody knows what his values, if any, are.
True - I certainly wouldn't bet on him having any.
But Aussies still remember how disastrous it was for the country when the Liberal Party was led by a PM who did have distinct values.