wheelreinventor

A couple of days ago, my tweet on proportionality in Australia’s lower house made a lot of people very mad: Although I worded this tweet a little provocatively, I was making a serious point: Lack of proportionality results in unfair outcomes. This affects minor parties most (The Greens got 12% of the vote and 2.6% of the seats, One Nation got 5% of the vote and 0% of the seats) but major parties too (Labor won more than half the seats while receiving fewer total votes than the LNP bloc).

While regarded with pride by many Australians, the country's voting system is deeply flawed, and results in massive amounts of wasted vote in every lower house election, federal or state.

Kevin Bonham, has a twitter thread up disputing my telling of wasted vote. Here’s the thread itself. It contains a large number of incorrect assertions. Let’s mythbust. he asked Antony to do his "research" for him This is not correct. I asked Antony if he happened to know a particular figure. I didn’t ask him to do research at all.

Why aren't we rebuilding our roads and cities around these incredible machines?

Receiving preferences doesn't mean receiving a mandate

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