The major parties several chances to meet the moment. Instead they chose to safeguard their collective mediocrity | Zoe Daniel

Labor and the Coalition united three times to defy the expressed desire of the voters; on gambling, on disability and on the power of the tech companies

If you need any more evidence that the two-party system is cooked, look no further than the not so grand coalition that came together to https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/19/gambling-deal-labor-coalition-australia-politics-ntwnfb">preference power over people in the federal parliament last week.

These days the Liberal and National parties have taken to condemning modern Labor as “socialist” and some of its policy “communist”.