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i'm rachel join me to meet the gentleman from d.w. . post. arrogance untrustworthy smoke those are just some of the words australians are using to describe the top 2 candidates in the country's upcoming federal election but even if owners don't want to choose a candidate they'll have to australia is one of the few countries with mandatory voting and i will be taking a look at the political disarray down under i'm called aspen in berlin and this is the day. every single vote does cast on this weekend this saturday we decided to

play to our country never before has your decision and your good things more important we've had so many changes of prime minister in the last 10 years there's a fair bit of cynicism in the electorate but it is a close election. and it will be a close election project that happens and the pieces of the process and step up to that to mountain opportunities no doubt you're shopping for all of this because you have. the major political power. and let me on this set of i live by the liberals in the nation is get on with the joy of realizing your future thank you bring back the pray to god. the giant but. also coming up on the day alabama's new anti abortion law it's the strictest so far in the united states and it's one that would imprison doctors who perform abortions for up to 99 years the doctor used to southern states trying to vilify

what they do. this is not an uncommon tactic they go after their providers especially doctors is another way to cut down access because abortion can be illegal all day long but if you can't access there you might as well and i have that right. a big welcome to our viewers on p.b.s. and in the all around the world though we begin the day down under australians are going to the polls and dissatisfaction is in the air the country has had 7 prime ministers in the last 12 years and voters are fed up according to a recent survey 40 percent say they are unhappy with australia's democracy and yet do the metaphor of voting as a 90 percent of eligible voters are expected to participate so who might they choose well there is the current prime minister scott morrison he's been on the job for just 9 months and he leads the conservative center right government but he's

predicted to narrowly lose to bill shorten he leads the center left labor party and he is proposing an ambitious agenda of climate action and increased taxes on the rich the polls open on saturday and the question on many people's minds is how long will the new leader last. the last 4 times australians have voted in federal elections have ended up with a different prime minister than the one they expected voters faith in their democracy is wavering surveys show trust in politicians is at a historic low who is in session. and people. in fighting amongst themselves and acting on. behalf. of the nation australia's political chaos started when labor leader kevin rudd was dumped in a coup led by his deputy julia guillard but rudd had his revenge just months before an election which the party lost then it was the liberals turn the conservative

tony abbott arrived promising stability but he lost to just 2 years before being rolled by the moderate malcolm turnbull who himself was replaced made last year. the current prime minister scott morrison knows australians have had enough. you know it's been a pretty tumultuous time and i think it strives with welcome the fact that that period of time is out and it should be either a strange expect that of the parliament and i'm pleased that that's the case the yeah i did get in this has come to a close and the eyes of working together and if i can see on the future is come this election both main parties have introduced rules to make internal cusa more difficult now instead of a simple majority over 50 percent a supermajority of caucus members will be required to vote out a sitting prime minister 75 percent for labor and for the liberals 2 thirds of their parliamentarians under such rules most of the recent leadership challenges would have failed but it might not be enough to satisfy voters so we can expect to

see just how the current government because of instability what we've seen over time in a strangely a grant you treat to weigh the range of pasties and the right way to rise and look at what might attract ease and independents independents who could control the balance of power in the new parliament and decide who becomes the next prime minister this time perhaps for a full term. in order jared reid joins me now in the studio he's been tracking the lead up to this luncheon very closely look jeremy what we have lost count i mean how many multiple prime ministers in just a decade trust in politicians an all time low i mean how would you describe the state of australian politics look i think astray in politics is at the end of a really turbulent period but obviously as we've heard a strains are really fed up with this revolving door in politics now hasn't

contributed to a sense of you know well being towards politicians there is a feeling that politicians are really only out for themselves and people feel the. because in this. lack of vision that camera is and a shambles and speaking of vision 2 days ago a former prime minister died his name was bob hawke and he led astray or in the eighty's and put into place some really important political and social and economic reforms and regardless of people's political stripes i think over the last few days astray and have been sort of looking back and thinking well wouldn't it be great if we had someone with such big ideas and someone who sort of lives and we soldier yeah but someone who lived with purpose who had these ideas and because what this instability has done it's over shattered the really important issues like the the gaps between non-indigenous and indigenous australians and all sorts of indicators

climate change were just dragons are just starting to to wake up to and realise is a big problem this is what the instability has overshadowed how about these 2 main candidates themselves you've got stop morrison bill shorten no one's really calling them inspiring i guess i wouldn't rank them high in the charisma stakes. so scott morrison has been the prime minister months he's the former treasurer are really worried about the. future of the. us if we while i think grains of them i haven't just because climate china she's so concerning and i feel like no one's really taking any serious action on making any serious moves so i'd be very bold label greens mostly because of where this is a time of change and environment these mission traumatise a really big one as well there really are you know doing what the government parties are time off to do because it's our nose. and what about these 2 candidates

themselves i mean scott morrison bill shorten no one's really calling them the most inspiring candidates i guess they're not that high in their careers mistakes scott .