Australian federal election, January 2021

The Australian Federal election, January 2021 was the 19th federal election in Australia.

Background
The Australian Federal election, January 2021 was contested by 6 registered parties, with the Liberals, Social Democrats, Australian Democrats and Country Labor Party, continuing on from the previous election, and two new parties, in the form of the following;

• The National Party, founded by Griffonomics and Riley as a split off from the Liberals. Being similar to the past National Parties formed by Griffo and Riley, allowing for a right wing populist view.

• the Green Left Party, a split from the Social Democrats by Parliamentarians UnknownTrainor, later_slater1407_, jq8678 and Jayden_Williamson, formed over by-election discontent and dissatisfaction with a stagnant SDP. Later merging with the Republicans and gaining a 5th parliamentarian.

The lead up to the election was one of many defections, that eventually marred the end of the term, overshadowing the large events at the beginning of the term where the initial Liberal-Independent Government collapsed due to the Fremantle Strike incident, where the Australian Defence Force was called in to detain union protestors and the Leader of the Opposition NGSpy was detained by Police.

These events led to said Government collapsing and the formation of the Bloc Coalition Government, comprising of the SDP, CLP, AD, and Independents Explosivo and Liam. Later joined by the GL after defections. The Bloc is considered by some to have been a highly successful Government despite its inability to create a coherent policy on some issues, and this exact problem is what led Senator for Queensland Cam T to defect from the SDP, due to the Bloc being unable to form a singular drug policy.

The election was fought on the platforms of either continuing a NGSpy premiership, or allowing for change to occur. The newly elected Leader of the Democrats Matthias Caesar was widely perceived to be the next Prime Minister, despite trailing every party in the polls pre-campaign period.

The SDP managed strong polling until the election, and the Nationals pulling off a surprise jump over their polling result. With the Liberals and SDP seeing their electoral support be far less than their polling support, demonstrating the true outcome of this election, being the death of the two party system.