Frantic messages have been going out to the party faithful outside the electorate in recent days, pleading for numbers to man unattended booths. Even the voters aren’t showing up. Australian Electoral Commissioner Tom Rogers was compelled to put out a statement on Thursday expressing his alarm that early voting numbers “are down by approximately 11.2 per cent based on the same period in the 2022 federal election”. It seems we can confidently assert high degrees of apathy all round. There are some places you can’t go in politics and this was one of them. Compare this with recent byelections contested...