I think you greatly discredit the general public here.
My experience of the past three years has been seeing the "never Trump Liberals" crowd who celebrated the last election result as if it was liberation day increasingly become disaffected with Labor and uncle Albo. People who thought the Voice was the second coming of Christ, and now wanting to violently return to pre-2020s ethnic makeup.
I'm not saying people aren't dissatisified with the government. I'm saying what is the breaking point? You watch shithole euro countries throw literal riots over increasing retirement age by a few years, yet Australians are going homeless and starving on mass, defaulting on their mortgages, a huge number of them are committing suicide, our entire society is eroding, the younger generations have no hope of owning anything, we are openly being replaced by jeets and chinese, all polticial parties very openly admit they have no interest in fixing any of it but accelerating it, and this still doesn't prompt the general population to say enough is enough. So what will? A military state and curfews? Even this I have doubts about given the covid response...
Labor is leading now because the options went from mass migration vs maybe not mass migration, to mass migration and work from home vs mass migration and no work from home.
The fact people still have faith in the system is the problem itself. It is irrelevant what any party says. They are lying. Earlier this year before the election was called, pretty sure labor signed an immigration deal with India to let even more in and extend their visa durations etc. Then as soon as the election gets called and they see the Liberals are fumbling it, they do what their advisors tell them and suddenly they are talking about "we will cut immigration because we are better than the liberals". It's all bullshit to steal votes from the liberal base because they know they are weak and that a huge part of their voterbase is likely to flip this election. This is the problem itself, labor dont actually give a shit, it's all just political strategy to stop independents taking the voterbase liberals will lose. Labor will backflip on this the second they win, and if anything, afterwards they will probably go straight back to the Indian government again and sign another immigration deal to import millions more of them in the name of "diversity". We've been through this revolving door multiple previous elections from both labor and liberal, it's how we got in this mess in the first place. They say they will cut immigration, they lie, they win and backflip on it, they ramp up immigration to chase the GDP dragon, and then the public just accepts it while their cost of living skyrockets and their quality of life goes to shit.
Everyone in the electorate knows it will get worse, and that's why they're going for Labor again. Rent, energy prices, food prices, etc, will be getting worse whether you vote for the mass Indian immigration or mass Chinese immigration parties, but at least your dole will go up slightly when you inevitably lose your job.
This is going to look a lot like the last British elections, no one has a party they like and they'll be voting the least worst option.
Yes, and just like the British elections, it will never get better. People think they can "tough this out". No they can't. No matter what any of the parties say they will all keep importing the 3rd world at record rates, and our country will end up a shithole just like Britain. That is the thing that makes it so infuriating, we can clearly see what these decisions do to a country. It's a fucking shithole with trash piling in the streets, mass crime occuring in the streets, extremist immigrants literally running in elections and winning and taking over their government trying to spend taxpayers money on building a fucking airport in Pakistan. All while the younger generation is abandoned and demonised for the crimes these groups commit, the working class walks on eggshells in fear of being called a racist and losing their job or saying the wrong thing and getting stabbed in the street, and the elderly and vulnerable are abandoned by their own country to fend for themselves. Do you think the British public before all this were ok with it? No, it was the same situation as Australia. They CONSTANTLY voted for reductions in immigration, and despite that, look at how it turned out. There is no "toughing it out". This is the part I think most of the general public is still having trouble coming to terms with.
So this goes back to my question above, when is the breaking point? If the expectation is that inevitably most people will lose their jobs and be replaced by cattle immigrants, in most other countries this would cause a huge outrage towards the government, yet in Australia, a lot of people seem fairly unphased by this. I'm not saying people don't care, but it seems everyone is so beaten down there is almost no will left to fight back or get angry about any of it and most people are just hoping it will pass and solve itself, which it wont. I'm very worried for where the country will be in even 3-5 years if people don't start waking up to this stuff.
