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Step one is to ignore anything FJ says, hes an entertainer not a political analyst
Australian politics is coloured in many ways by the relative novelty of the system we've built here, in particular the use of a ranked choice preference voting system and compulsory voting. The end result is that it is very difficult for a small group of radicals or extremists to have significant influence over our government as there is always massive pool of relatively disinterested centrist votes that are mathematically incapable of exhausting without influencing the makeup of the government in some way - Compare this to the USA in which a majority of the voting age population doesnt even participate in elections and of those who do, only those living in "swing states" have any influence over the result and they MUST choose between one of the two major parties or see their vote exhaust without influencing the government
As a result, while Australian politics is still centered around two major parties those parties are naturally forced toward more moderate positions by the need to appeal to this big centrist blob while at the same time fending off constant threats from an endless stream of minor parties, which tend to hold more radical positions
In our last election, we saw a collapse of the old political order in very much the same way you Americans saw one with trumps second election, however the structural differences between our democracies meant that this manifested as an outright collapse of our major conservative party as voters simply voted for other parties (or even labor) instead on the justified assumption that these alternatives would either deliver on whatever the LNP had failed to provide them or force it to reform into something more capable of meeting their political needs.
