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Is Australia’s duopoly ‘broken’? – Michael McLaren on a nation of two-party systems

Michael McLaren
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Michael McLaren questions Australia’s tendency to fall into duopolies, from Coles and Woolworths to Labor and the Liberal Party.

He argues this pattern leaves little room for a genuine third force, and states what it will take for Australia’s political duopoly to be challenged in the same way the UK’s is by Nigel Farage and his Reform Party.

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