[King-Aaron]

I mean, stop repeatedly voting for blatantly corrupt parties, for one.

The current LNP are so actively corrupt with their corporate interests, religious interests, repeated exposed in-house scandals, etc, yet the majority of the population continue to vote for them because they ignore it all and just keep supporting 'their team'. The Labor government tries to suggest that they're different, and end up with their own dramas of a similar style, but are kind of not as bad. Kind of.

There are other options out there, but we're all lead to believe that only the 'big parties' can form government. Which only remains true due to the self-fulfilling prophecy of people only voting en masse for the big two parties (and the preference system that funnels votes into those parties).

The likelihood of that changing? Low.

The other solution would be to dismantle the corporate media monopoly that glosses over the actual issues the country is facing, but that's probably even less likely to happen.

[vncecartersknee]

Why do you think that people keep voting for the blatantly corrupt LNP? and why are the other parties above becoming corrupt?

Is it possible that the LNP are constantly in power because they are corrupt?

[longwick]

I suspect until just recently it was because of the negative gearing policies, but now that Labor has officially scrapped any changes I feel like the differences between the parties gets thinner and thinner.

[softveda]

3 things. 1. People always look after their back pocket. Any policy that reduce income or wealth is a vote loser 2. Rupert Murdoch owns a majority of print and TV media and has extreme bias for the conservative govt. People do not see any other viewpoints. 3. Extreme divide between rural and urban population. It is impossible to satisfy both. A pro-climate change policy in urban Sydney is a vote killer in regional Queensland.