Realignment of Australian Politics

How has the preferential voting system masked the decline of the major parties and why is the decline worse for the Liberals and Nationals? Can One Nation capitalise on the trend? How does ‘voter softness’ play out amongst the ‘aggrieved’,and what lessons are there from similar democracies? Social and political data scientist, Shaun Ratcliff joins Democracy Sausage to discuss new polling on the realignment of the Australian political landscape. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Realignment of Australian Politics is an episode from Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny by The Australian National University.

This episode is 54:33 long.

This episode was published on Feb 3, 2026.

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