As soon as the Teals stop being funded to the hilt their profile and therefore vote will drop like a stone. The amount of money spent on their campaigns was eye watering. Just 3 of their donors, Scott Farquhar, Mike Cannon-Brookes and Rob Keldoulis stumped up almost $4.5m between them. In total the Teals spent almost $14m on the last Federal election with the stated aim of holding the balance of power in the House of Reps. Which of course they failed to achieve and as a result have hardly been heard from since.
Always a Bulldog
Yeah I'm not so sure about the Teals vote dropping like a stone.
A place for the progressive conservatives has now been created to fill the void left vacant. I can see Labor voters heading over to them as well. They do appear, on face value, to have high calibre conviction members elected to Parliament. Can hardly rightly say they've hardly been heard of since being elected. They probably miss out on commerial air time too I guess.
If they can hold their seats (and even garner more) as voters become more disillusioned, they will be an effective gathering of independents that many voters could see worthy of their vote.
They haven't been held to the blow torch as yet but don't really need to engage in that way?
Of course that remains to be seen. The 2 majors have seen off other parties and movements but this lot seem broad based enough to appeal (so far).