Fri May 27, 2022 – 10:16 am EDT
CANBERRA (LifeSiteNews) — If there is one word to describe Australia’s recent federal election, it is “fragmentation.” At first glance, it looks like the parties fighting against medical tyranny had a disappointing result, but that is deceiving. These so-called ‘freedom parties’ captured about 12-15% of the vote, which is about double the number of those who came out to protest in the streets against vaccine mandates and lockdowns.
In doing so, they fractured the two-party monolith in Australia and, although they will not have the balance of power in the upper house (that is, the Senate, which can only block legislation), they could still end up with significant representation. It is clearly the beginning of a powerful movement dedicated to true democracy, and if it continues it is likely in the end to undermine two-party dominance in Australia.
Perhaps the best indication of just how big the changes are is that the winning party, the Australian Labor Party, got less than a third of the vote. The losing Liberal party actually got a larger share, about 35%.
In the past, anything less than 40% of the vote was
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