Being a progressive Australian voter is more and more frustrating, imo.
Labor continues its now decades-long efforts to be the most mediocre, least effective, do-nothing party afraid of its own shadow. Their rusteds are deaf to critique and quick to anger.
The Greens persist in never having learned the lesson that being the finger-wagging, purse-lipped party of telling people they are wrong and stupid (they're right, but they are deeply terrible at conducting actual politics) makes no friends and plenty of enemies. Their supporters are a fractured mob, each wanting their own micro-issue to be the most important thing, and righteous in a way that's off-putting; no wonder the party can't win more seats in various parliaments.
The Democrats are long done.
The other minor progressive parties all have some weird off-putting agenda, or are single-issue whackjobs.
There seems to be a tiny handful of very good progressive independents, who while all smart, considered, and ethical, won’t ever make more than small differences - Haines, Pocock, Wilkie, Payman.