As the 2025 federal election approaches, Australia’s long-standing two-party political system faces an unprecedented challenge.
With independents and minor parties set to play a major role, Four Corners examines how a new political landscape is taking shape and what it means for voters struggling in a cost-of-living crisis.
From ABC:
For more than a century, Australian politics has been a two-party contest, leaving voters with a simple choice on election day: Labor or the Coalition. But that old rule book is being torn apart.
As a federal election looms, Four Corners returns for 2025 with reporter Angus Grigg examining whether our two-party system is collapsing.
Independents and minor parties are set to capture more than a third of the vote and become the king makers in the new parliament.
Drawing on exclusive data for the first time Four Corners reveals that in 82 per cent of seats most households are in financial distress – astonishingly up from just eight per cent three years ago.
That means paychecks barely cover basic living expenses.
So, in this cost-of-living election, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has plenty to worry about.
Grigg and the team travel to four battleground electorates in New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia and Queensland where politics is being turned on its head.