We have two main parties Lib and Lab. Both rightwing neoliberal parties , one is slightly more right to the other. Imagine a little bit more left Dems vs a little bit more right Dems.

Our preferential system means all votes have to end in 2 parties. Thus any slightly left parties vote is funnelled to Labor and any slightly right parties goes to Liberal.

We get the illusion of more than 2 parties.

[–] odium@programming.dev 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Also, if they do anything the CIA doesn't like, they get deposed.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/23/gough-whitlam-1975-coup-ended-australian-independence

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Great article picture 😄

[–] Hegar@kbin.social 3 points 8 months ago

John pilger was a national treasure.

[–] ziltoid101@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ehh that's a very cynical and kinda misleading take of how it works. This may be generally true in the house of representatives but still 12% of the seats don't end up funnelled to the two major parties. In the senate a quarter of senators aren't affiliated with either major party and at the moment it requires Labor to collaborate to pass bills, so although we do have two major parties we are nowhere near being a two-party system.

[–] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago

Mate that’s akin to saying the US is not a two party system due to having independents or third party senators.

The democrats currently don’t have majority and rely on Bernie, King, and Sinema to pass bills.