I'd argue we are:
- We have two heavily entrenched major parties, at least wholly or partially owned by corporate interests (ALP less so than LNP)
- Politicians going out of their way to create needless division and damage social cohesion, turning Australians against each other (see "antisemitism" and voice to parliament)
- Most people are politically disengaged voting along previous party lines or doing very little research due to hopelessness
- Political advertising and campaigning is becoming more and more disgusting with very little care given to facts, logic and science with an emphasis on "CoMMOn SeNSe"
It's a little harder to go full fucked up US here owing partially to our mandatory preferential voting system (but don't worry the QLD LNP are promising to get rid of that if elected). The system could be made much better though, we should ditch the idea of region based electorates and use some kind of proportional representation so that no matter where you live your voice will be heard.