Australia has a new government following a small-target and lacklustre election campaign by both major parties. As Jerry Seinfeld might say, "that show was about nothing". In 2022, where was the debate about Australia's real and pressing issues? Where were the policies to resolve these challenges or the vision for the country's future?
I worked on my first election in 1965. I have seen many boring and pointless political campaigns in the intervening years, but never one as vacuous as this. It was so bad that 29 per cent of the voters were undecided just before election day, and, on May 21, the primary vote for both the major political parties that could form a government was in the low thirties.
