Australia is being pillaged. Both major political parties are corrupt to the core and are not acting in the publics interest. They play the old game of divide and conquer (identity politics) on the people who (sadly) seem too stupid to realise they're getting played, pitted against each other and screwed over.
It probably doesn't end until we have a major crisis / collapse and we end up with blood in the streets. Even then we are just as likely to end up under totalitarian rule if thugs take control.
We need a genuine (not co-opted) yellow vest type grassroot movement in this country and a move toward direct democracy. That probably has to happen overseas first so we can see how it's done.
Even if it's demonstrated, will it be taken up? Look at Iceland. They did it right after the financial collapse, but nowhere else took the example on.
Iceland might be too small and obscure for populations like ours to notice. They can be safely ignored by the powers that be over here. It probably needs to be done by one of our big allies and/or trading partners before we'll notice.