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Major parties to increase their election funding advantages
It is not surprising that after decades of Coalition and Labor neoliberal governments robbing the poor to give to the rich that voters have been steadily deserting the major parties for smaller parties and independents.
A study by The Australia Institute (TAI), released in October, found that the share of the non-major party vote in federal elections rose from just 6.9% in 1982 to 31.5% in 2022.
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Sue Bolton: Vic Labor must ‘rethink’ undemocratic single member ward system WA Labor’s electoral reforms: one step forward, two steps back NSW electoral funding reforms tip scales further to the 1% NSW needs electoral reform, socialist candidate saysA similar pattern can be observed in all states over this same time.
The Coalition and Labor parties have been the sole government parties in this country for more than a century and they are determined not to relinquish their political duopoly.
As the last term of federal parliament draws to an end, the major parties are set to rush through the Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Reform) Bill 2024 to give themselves even more election funding advantage over smaller parties and independents.
The ruling elite........
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