# Realignment of Australian Politics Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/democracy-sausage-with-mark-kenny-877084/realignment-of-australian-politics Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/democracy-sausage-with-mark-kenny-877084/realignment-of-australian-politics.md Podcast: [Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny](https://stenobird.com/podcast/democracy-sausage-with-mark-kenny-877084) Published: 2026-02-03T05:02:36+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/democracy-sausage/episodes/realignment-of-australian-politics Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/democracy-sausage/e/69817cb013c1477af2f643aa/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/democracy-sausage-with-mark-kenny-877084/episodes/realignment-of-australian-politics Duration seconds: 3273 ## Resource How has the preferential voting system masked the decline of the major parties and why is the decline worse for the Liberals and Nationals? Can One Nation capitalise on the trend? How does ‘voter softness’ play out amongst the ‘aggrieved’,and what lessons are there from similar democracies? Social and political data scientist, Shaun Ratcliff joins Democracy Sausage to discuss new polling on the realignment of the Australian political landscape. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/democracy-sausage-with-mark-kenny-877084/episodes/realignment-of-australian-politics/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/democracy-sausage-with-mark-kenny-877084/realignment-of-australian-politics.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.