Polling and worried commentary in the financial press is underscoring the reality that the breakup of the Coalition on January 22 is only the sharpest expression of an historic crisis of the entire two-party set-up that has defended capitalist rule for more than 80 years.
Coalition break-up expresses crisis of Australia’s two-party system
BY Oscar Grenfell
On the first regular sitting day of parliament for the year today, the Liberals and the Nationals, the component parties of the erstwhile Coalition, sat separately. Talks between Liberal leader Sussan Ley and National’s David Littleproud prior to the sitting had failed to reunify the federal opposition.