Honestly yes. We get daily news updates, I'd say the average joe knows generally a pretty reasonable amount about politics. Obviously there's those who know more and focus more closely, but in general you know basically what the parties stand for, because it hasn't really changed much in the past hundred years.

Whilst we have numerous parties (it's not a 2 party system, we have dozens) the core ones have been around forever. You can see roughly their leanings here (from earlier this year):



vs yours



So we're all fairly aligned. Also worth noting that Liberals and Nationals operate as a coalition and formed government together. Nationals tend to represent country and farming regions, liberals cities and major towns.

But yes; in short, the parties' stance on most subjects is pretty well known well before an election is called, it's not just standing in front of an auditorium speaking crap and making up policies (and running for a year+ in the campaign trail) which is a lot of what your politicians seem to do, at least from an outside observation perspective.

We also have an election every 3 years (edit: and voting is mandatory).