| Περίληψη: | Australia's 2022 federal election played out in ways that
few could have expected. Not only did it bring a change of government; it also
saw the lowest number of primary votes for the major parties and the election of
the greatest number of Independents to the lower house since the formation of
the Australian party system. The success of the Teal Independents and the
Greens, along with the appetite voters showed for 'doing politics
differently’, suggested that the dominant model of electoral competition might
no longer be the two-party system of Labor versus Liberal. At the very least,
the continued usefulness of the two-party-preferred vote as a way of
conceptualising and predicting Australians’ voting behaviour has been cast into
serious doubt. In Watershed, leading scholars analyse the election from the
ground up—focusing on the campaign issues, the actors involved, and the
successes and failures of campaign strategy—and show how digital media, visual
politics and fake news are changing the way politics is done. Other topics
include the impact of COVID-19 and the salience of climate, gender and integrity
issues, as well as voting patterns and polling accuracy. This authoritative book
is indispensable for understanding the disenchantment with the major parties,
the rise of Community Independents, and the role of the Australian Greens and
third parties. Watershed is the eighteenth in the ANU Press federal election
series and the tenth sponsored by the Academy of the Social Sciences in
Australia.
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