most people in australia would not really have an insight into their own country from a political perspective. there are many people who think in terms of left and right, without understanding both sides are completely broken. i can add the greens to the list, because they are not an environmental party, they use the environment but have ambitions based upon the united nations model which is equally as broken as anyone else's.  
the bottom line is australia is very corrupt. it exists deep within all levels from the lowest to the highest, in fact the body that investigates corruption in australia is corrupt itself so there is no way out. the whistleblowers end up as the villain, hounded into foreign embassies, jail or made out to be some sort of traitor.
communist russian tactics were to label the whistleblower with a mental illness or ship them to siberia. in modern times it's no different, in australia you are taken to various assessments and questioned for weaknesses, it's almost like a catch 22 situation. to declare corruption you must be insane and if you are insane you cannot be a reliable witness. 
the consequences of whistle blowing are extremely damaging which is why very few people do it. i have done it twice.
the first time was in reference to a pedophile ring that three work colleagues and i blindly stumbled upon and uncovered that connected to the highest levels of government (yes its a clique but it was true) and personalities in this very country. it was exactly at the same time that franca arena stood up under parliamentary privilege and made her speech about pedophiles operating in parliament and beyond for which she lost her job and was ridiculed. we met with her many times, especially when one of us was killed. anyway i will return to this story in a novel i am working on.
right now decades later i am involved in a very different type of corruption and time will tell if there will be any justice. i would stake my professional reputation on it there will not be because fundamentally these people are all protected, not just by one another but by other corrupt institutions. 
so for the average person in australia none of this registers upon the radar, but when you work below the line as i do, with vulnerable people things are not what they seem. the people that appear caring are usually the ones that don't, the people that write and enforce policies are usually the ones that break it, the people that find themselves in positions of power usually abuse it, and the people that do the right thing and call it are squashed while the real villains are promoted thus entrenching the system. 
in a few months i will spill the beans on the new situation i face but i have to wait until it goes through legal proceedings, another tainted construct itself, but one has to try when the stakes are high.