Australia seems to becoming a one-party state, not like dictatorships elsewhere where all critics are suppressed, but where the very united Albanese Labor Party is so electorally ascendant, so dominant in setting the agenda, and so effective in occupying our key institutions, that there is now no effective functioning opposition.

All the electorate has left, and all the Albanese government has to face, is the disintegrating Liberals , the regionally limited Nationals and their various abandoning slivers, and the fragmented, often incoherent, and unpredictable minor parties and independents - in other words, not much.

Labor's recent election win showed that a party that is united, has clear goals, a commitment to achieve them, the strategies to implement them, and most importantly in a

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