 After each federal election since 1987, the Australian Election Study has asked Australians about how they voted and why. For the most part, it has shown us that our political system and our confidence in Australian democracy is pretty stable. But in 2016, the study shows that we're not immune to the problems facing democracy across the world. We've had record low levels of interest in the 2016 election. Only 30% of Australians said they took a good deal of interest in the campaign. 40% of us are not satisfied with Australian democracy. And only 26% think people in government can be trusted. This is the lowest number since we first asked this in 1969. 56% of Australians think government in Australia is run for a few big interests. This is another record. 52% of us say that politicians don't know what ordinary people think. Another record, this is up nine points since 2013. 47% of us think that the country's financial situation has gotten worse over the past year. They'll about the same number think our household finances are about the same. 74% think that the government makes little differences, difference to those household finances. And 69% think government policies make little difference to the country's finances. This is bad news for parties who are trying to get us to vote on the basis of economic issues. In fact, overall these results should act as a real wake-up call to the major parties. A record high of 19% of Australians say they don't feel close to any particular party. They don't think of themselves as a Labour voter or a Liberal voter. Only 34% of voters follow to how to vote card this year. That's down from 43% in 2013 and again we're seeing record low numbers. 22% of us believe parties care what we think, that's down from 30% in 2013. But the good news is that none of this has dampened our support across a range of policies. We continue to support immigration in Australia. We agree that migration has a range of economic and social benefits. We support constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians, the proposed referendum. And the legalisation of medically assisted euthanasia. We overwhelmingly about three quarters of us support marriage equality. For more data and analysis you can visit AustralianElectionStudy.org.