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Another reason is that in Australia, it is not as easy to buy votes, and you don't need to be filthy rich or owned by corporations to stand for Parliament. We don't vote for judges and sheriffs, either.

In the USA, a lot more positions of political power are bought and votes are paid for. This might happen in more subtle ways here, and could be happening illegally, but it's not built into the system the way it seems to be in the USA.

I don't believe it is necessarily a 'right wing' thing - at least not in Australian politics. Right wing to my mind is more about conservative politics but not necessarily about expanding the divide between rich and poor. In the USA, neither party is immune to being bought by corporations.

Some corporations and probably wealthy individuals are creating organisations to persuade the right wing voters to vote in people who will cut taxes for the wealthy, support and subsidise dirty industries, and cut education, science, weather and health services, while maintaining a large defense benefiting the large and powerful defense contractors and suppliers. (In Australia, Gina Rinehart said she bought into media for this purpose but I don't think it's quite as easy over here to get away with it.)