Chapter Title: The Minor Parties’ Campaigns Chapter Author(s): Glenn Kefford Book Title: Double Disillusion Book Subtitle: The 2016 Australian Federal Election Book Editor(s): ANIKA GAUJA, PETER CHEN, JENNIFER CURTIN and JULIET PIETSCH Published by: ANU Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.com/stable/j.ctv1rmk5d.21 JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at https://about.jstor.org/terms This content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. ANU Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Double Disillusion This content downloaded from 124.176.36.204 on Wed, 05 Aug 2020 00:47:18 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 15 The Minor Parties’ Campaigns Glenn Kefford While the return of the Turnbull government with a one-seat majority will be the defining story of the 2016 federal election for most political observers, equally important is the continued fragmentation of the Australian political landscape. Voters are deserting the major parties in increasing numbers (Green 2016). Dissatisfaction with Australian democracy, at least according to some reports (Evans, Stoker and Halupka 2016), is also rising.