The enshittification of Australian democracy

The two-party system is demonstrably damaging the country and we need to fix that

The collusion between Labor and the LNP to rig our electoral system in their own favour, as per new laws being pushed through parliament as I write, is not just evidence—straight from the horse’s mouth—of the collapse of support for those major parties, it is further evidence of how this two-party system is undermining any chance we have of living up to the promise of Australia being a fair and egalitarian nation.

Detail from the title-page of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan (1651). Featured on PDR in the essay The Revolutionary Colossus. As the French Revolution entered its most radical years, there emerged in print a recurring figure, the collective power of the people expressed as a single gigantic body — a king-eating Colossus. Samantha Wesner traces the lineage of this nouveau Hercules, from Erasmus Darwin’s Bastille-breaking giant to a latter incarnation in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Read More on The Public Domain Review…

Enshittification is a word I hate, mainly because it needed to …