For the past 3 decades, basically the entire span of my adult life, I’ve been unable to identify any candidate worthy of actively voting for, and the only memorable specimens have been clowns I’ve needed to vote against.
This country chose to gave Howard 4 fucking terms to undermine and obliterate the Australian social fabric, and no one since has had the cognitive calibre required to correct his debasement.
If you need a primer, this is a decent point to start: Where it All Went Wrong
I’ve only recently, really looked deeply into politics, and I may be back propagating my current understanding in an inconsistent manner, but I can’t identify a single entity who has elevated to the level of candidate and is worthy of voting for.
The state of politics in Australia has become so thoroughly polluted that one must intrinsically be irreconcilably compromised to participate, which leaves the only justifiable path being to vote for the least bad option, if one can be gleaned in time.