Data compiled for the ABC’s Four Corners reveals a staggering rise in financial distress across Australia. In 82 percent of electorates, households are barely covering basic living costs. As the election looms the cost-of-living crisis could spell trouble for the Labor Party.
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00:00The seat of Werriwa in Sydney's South West is changing.
00:07Western Sydney might be warming up to Peter Dutton.
00:09It's that sort of constituency that might be grappling with conservatism and also resentful
00:14of Labor and what they see as a dropping of the ball on inflation.
00:18Werriwa has been a Labor seat for 90 years.
00:21Demographer Liz Allen says it's hurting.
00:23This is the heartland of pain.
00:28This is where we're going to see elections won and lost and ultimately decided.
00:35It is becoming overpopulated and it's like some very different ideas are kind of getting
00:42all mixed together and there's no kind of unity for the Australian values.
00:48Sitting member Anne Stanley holds the seat with a margin of just 5.3 per cent.
00:53I don't take anything for granted.
00:55I'm working really hard for this community.
00:57I have spent all my life in this community and I am doing as much as I can.
01:05Local accountant Sam Cale is standing for the Liberals.
01:07We need the infrastructure to be built.
01:09Not only just the roads but the water, the sewerage, the gas, the electricity.
01:15There's a lot of vacant land out here.
01:17It's actually DA ready but we need the infrastructure to be built.
01:21With 20 marginal Labor seats up for grabs right across the country and financial stress
01:26So much worse than just three years ago.
01:28For Prime Minister Anthony Albanese the difficult task is convincing voters he deserves a second
01:34term.
01:35Independents and minor parties are tapping into anger, winning more mainstream support
01:40and are set to capture a third of the vote nationally.
01:44The complete dominance of the Coalition and Labor is over.
01:47Forget what you think you know about elections in Australia.
01:51This is changing really quick.
01:53Get ready because it's game on.