The proposition that Australians were disengaged from politics has become something of an orthodoxy in recent years. Polls showing high rates of undecided voters before the election seemed to confirm this analysis.

But come election night 2022, it became clear — horribly so, for the MPs who were personally escorted to the exit by their electorates — that the Australian voting public is engaged, alert, and has its BS detector dialled up to 11.

The voting patterns around the country were intricate, and runic analysts in the major parties will likely be going over them for years.

But three major drivers were immediately apparent. Women. People worried about climate change. And a third factor: a vast and nebulous rage against the perfidy and shallowness of modern politicking, in which major parties take their voters for granted and stubbornly fail to do their one job, which is sorting out solutions to difficult problems.

Remember Newcastle pensioner Ray Drury, who collared Scott Morrison at the Edgeworth Tavern early in the campaign, and gave him a coruscating character appraisal?

Mr Drury, who has cancer and has been writing fruitlessly to MPs for years to complain about his pension being clipped owing to his workers' comp coming through, did not miss the rich and substantial opportunity presented by the PM strolling unguardedly into his local. He berated the PM on everything from the welfare system to the non-appearance of the Coalition's promised integrity commission.

"You better do something," he concluded. "I'm sick of your bulls**t."

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