4 Corners returns to screens subsequent Monday with “Social gathering Crashers” reported by Angus Grigg.

For greater than a century, Australian politics has been a two-party contest, leaving voters with a easy selection on election day: Labor or the Coalition.

However that outdated rule guide is being torn aside.

As a federal election looms, 4 Corners returns for 2025 with reporter Angus Grigg inspecting whether or not our two-party system is collapsing.

Independents and minor events are set to seize greater than a 3rd of the vote and change into the king makers within the new parliament.

Drawing on unique information for the primary time 4 Corners reveals that in 82 per cent of seats most households are in monetary misery – astonishingly up from simply eight per cent three years in the past.

Meaning paychecks barely cowl primary dwelling bills.

So, on this cost-of-living election, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has lots to fret about.

Grigg and the workforce journey to 4 battleground electorates in New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia and Queensland the place politics is being turned on its head.

Monday 3 February at 8.30pm on ABC.