In this election, voters are more distrustful than ever of politicians, and the political heroes of 2022 have fallen from grace, swept from favour by independent players.
A Roy Morgan survey has found, for the first time, that Australians are driven more by who they distrust than who they trust.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is the most distrusted figure, outranking even US President Donald Trump. [!!!] He’s three times more distrusted than Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
My brain is still melting over some of the two-party-preferred vote preference stats from the 2022 election:
- The Greens: Coalition 14.34%
- Victorian Socialists: Coalition 16.55%
- FUSION: Science, Pirate, Secular, Climate Emergency: Coalition 30.72%
- Socialist Alliance: Coalition 25.35%
- Reason Australia: Coalition 19.27%
People are at the very least starting to vote 3rd parties more and more. And thank Christ we have the option. (Though, single-member lower house electorates are pretty shite and favour the larger parties).
People are still just a bit rusted on to the known larger parties, looking into other parties is actual effort.
