The unmaking of the Australian party system
Inside Story
By Frank Bongiorno (inaugural director of the Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas and Donald Horne Professor, University of Canberra), *Inside Story*, 27 August 2026. 5115 words. Subtitled: "How should we deal with a fragmented political landscape?
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“An electorate that was once mainly divided along partisan Labor–Coalition lines was split in 2022 and 2025 into three parts of roughly similar size: Labor, Coalition, and minor parties and independents”
“In 1967, 36 per cent of Coalition voters and 32 per cent of Labor voters said they were stable supporters of their side. In 2025 the respective figures were 13 and 11 per cent.”
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