There were many failed attempts at a viable 3rd party ranging back as far as the
mid 50s labor split.
IMO, the Democrats had the best chance of challenging the duopoly but it seems that
voting for the GST & sleeping with a Labor Minister put the tin hat on it.
(Fancy the electorate voting in Peter Dutton to replace Cheyl Kernot in her electorate?)
IMO the LNP/Nats are having problems hanging in there because of the need to be two faced:
-Neo Liberals re City Matters & Agrarian Socialists in Rural matters.......wink wink....say no more..eh?
The Greens Socialist policies seem to falter outside middle class suburbs, IMO.
It also appears that there are fundamental fault lines in both the Libs (small L Libs vs Right Wing Conservatives)
and the traditional Left vs the Right in Labor.
IMO, the conservative press has pushed politics a step to the Right (as in the Rocky Horror Show) which, IMO
leaves an opening for a genuine moderate Left wing party without environmental or Trade Union baggage.
But I guess populism panders to the disenchanted who , as the Americans say, don't have a college degree
and who ought to be slightly Left Wing with their nemesis being the Uber Rich rather than migrants,
the welfare class, and Aboriginal Aussies. But I guess we too have a dream...an Aussie Dream.
As Yeats said:
"
I have spread
my dreams
under
your
feet;
Tread softly
because
you tread
on
my dreams
"
