One Nation’s SA election success has not just decimated the Liberals, but more importantly, it has gutted effective opposition and undermined democracy.
The recent South Australian election has overwhelmingly returned the Malinauskas Labor government to power. It now has 70 per cent of the seats and reduced the Liberal opposition to just five or six seats, thanks to the resurgence of One Nation.
While attention has focused on One Nation’s success, there has been little appreciation as to what happens to accountability and democracy in a Westminster system like South Australia’s, and potentially elsewhere in Australia, when “His Majesty’s loyal opposition” is reduced to such token numbers.
