Is our 2 party system just a con?

[Kyle Communications]

Octave. The proof is in the results. How can you get 34% of the primary vote yet hold 85% of the available seats?....population stacking is one of course look at Burke's electorate. Are you trying to tell me those voters make up their own mind on preferences...half cant even speak english so they follow the how to vote cards. This goes on all over the electorates. Most walk in and grab a sheet and then do a donkey tick on the ballot paper.

 

 

[red750]

Your preferences only apply in your electorate, which wins one seat in parliament. To win government, a party must win sufficient electorates in a first past the post race in the House, so it's only a partial preference vote.

[facthunter]

With FPP and a Lot of Candidates a ridiculously Low number of Votes can get someone in by  a small difference. . FPP is NOT the Magic bullet. A DECENT Media would be the Biggest Help.  Nev

[Kyle Communications]

I agree with you there Nev...the media in this country is shockingly bad. Journalism is now tainted with woke and left bias. Very few have any right bias its mainly left.

What ever happened to unbiased fact based journalism that just gave you the facts and not the spin depending on who owns the media company

The ABC used to until it was poisioned by idealogy and crap interviewers

[octave]

The thing with preferential voting is that  I can send a signal. My seat is a safe seat, it has not changed hands in decades. Whilst I know my vote will flow through to the least worst of the 2 major candidates. 

If the winning candidate only just scrapes in then post election analysis may pus a party right or left depending on where the preferences are coming from. A strong One Nation vote is a signal for the major parties to the right and a strong flow from the Greens may signal something different. No system is perfect.  

[facthunter]

Kyle, You think Sky and Murdoch don't have any right wing Bias? I can't see how you can say that with a straight face. Nev

Edited 1 hour ago by facthunter
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[old man emu]

Newspaper editorials have always been political when the there is a political discussion going on. They are not something that Murdoch et al invented. In Australia you can go back to the very first newspapers published in Sydney. (You can find them using Trove https://trove.nla.gov.au/ ) and see the political editorials therein. The editorials always promoted one view or another of the situation.

[Kyle Communications]

Nev. you didnt read what I wrote. I said there are not many that have a right bias.....the only really right side and not far right bias is Sky (any owned by Murdoch) all the rest are left or far left like the ABC is now

 

[octave]

Channel 7?    Their recent hatchet job on batteries was disgusting. Sure make your case but don't lie.