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oapen-20.500.12657-879872024-03-28T14:03:23Z Watershed Gauja, Anika Sawer, Marian Sheppard, Jill 2022 Australian federal election Australian political parties end of two-party system digital election campaigning TEAL Independents thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes::JPHF Elections and referenda / suffrage thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPL Political parties and party platforms 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. 2024-02-23T15:45:37Z 2024-02-23T15:45:37Z 2023 book ONIX_20240223_9781760465827_17 9781760465827 9781760465810 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/87987 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International book.pdf ANU Press ANU Press 10.22459/W.2023 10.22459/W.2023 ddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71 9781760465827 9781760465810 ANU Press 458 Canberra open access
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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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