Labor need to pull their finger out and make some changes.

Spoiler, they won't :(

The only thing that will save us from this mess is a mass left-wing political movement to counter the rise of the right.

The Labor Party are not the party of workers, and haven't been for many, many decades. We can rely on them only to tinker, and to placate capital at the expense of the workers.

Luckily, preferential voting exists, so there's literally no downside to abandoning them in favour of parties that align with left-wing values.

I'm probably preaching to the choir, but please join your local Socialists branch, or the Greens if you're not yet convinced capitalism in unreformable. And get everyone and their dog involved.

They have been buy-able for a whilst, Libs and Labour just thought they had the upper handed monopoly and the candidates stopped 'looking' like they care in favor of the 'just rent and be glad you peasant'. This result is almost the same argument that is seen in USA and UK. Economics and class snobbery is hitting hard on the lower incomes, so social media is pushing the purchased self righteous, but useful idiots to make it even worse. Libs and Labour have helped create the mess, showing big money that they can buy public sway, the difference is that money is now sidestepping them playing dirty. They cant and wont object or offer resistance.