The fall of the social-democratic Labor Party in Australia

These are grim days for the states or provinces of Australia with four of them now abandoning the Labor Party as governments and moving even more to the right. It's what happens when mining companies firmly rule a country. It's a shame, I believe. Not only the loss of the one social-democratic voice in each state but also the way the national Govt, a Labor Party Govt has bent to the will of the mining companies to the extent that they have; becoming a defacto and corrupted entity.