{"id":351095,"date":"2018-03-07T04:20:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T03:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/deep-social-crisis-ignored-in-south-australian-election-campaign\/"},"modified":"2018-03-07T04:20:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T03:20:56","slug":"deep-social-crisis-ignored-in-south-australian-election-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/deep-social-crisis-ignored-in-south-australian-election-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep social crisis ignored in South Australian election campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Deep social crisis ignored in South Australian election campaign<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Mike Head<br \/>\n    <br \/>6 March 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>For months, there has been alarmed speculation throughout the corporate media that the March 17 state election in South Australia (SA) could see a new \u201cthird party\u201d form government, or at least hold the \u201cbalance of power\u201d in a hung parliament.<\/p>\n<p>After clinging to office for 16 years, despite only once winning a majority of votes, the state Labor government could be swept out, or forced to rely on the recently-formed \u201cSA Best\u201d party of former federal Senator Nick Xenophon to form a minority administration.<\/p>\n<p>Such a result would be another milestone in the disintegration nationally of the two-party system, based on Labor and the Liberal-National Coalition, that has underpinned capitalist rule since World War II.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest Newspoll last weekend, Labor\u2019s primary vote has plunged from 35.8 percent to 30 percent since the last election in 2014, while the Liberals sit on 29 percent, down sharply from 44.8 percent. The Greens, who have generally backed Labor, are languishing on around 6 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Yet none of the media coverage, and none of the parties campaigning in the election, has even alluded to the main cause of the collapse of support for the main parties of the political establishment\u2014the intensifying social crisis being suffered by working class households.<\/p>\n<p>Decades of de-industrialisation, capped by last year\u2019s closure of Australia\u2019s last car assembly plant\u2014General Motors Holden in the northern Adelaide suburb of Elizabeth\u2014have created mass unemployment and under-employment in working class areas. Falling real wage levels and soaring living costs, especially for electricity, have produced worsening poverty and social stress.<\/p>\n<p> The impact has been&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/03\/06\/sael-m06.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Deep social crisis ignored in South Australian election campaign By Mike Head 6 March 2018 For months, there has been alarmed speculation throughout the corporate media that the March 17 state election in South Australia (SA) could see a new \u201cthird party\u201d form government, or at least hold the \u201cbalance of power\u201d in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-351095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}