We had an election yesterday (state), and a federal one is due my May 17.
The thinking is that the "sensible centre" holds the line, we're far from having a cult of personality or fanatical party loyalty, and given how our senate is structured, you tend to have a splintering away from the majors to minor parties.
It works pretty well (mostly), all things considered, especially with ranked choice voting.
You can't do anything about low-information or single-issue voters, and populism will always attract a large swathe of voters, but at the moment we have a milquetoast PM and an opposition leader who has gained the sobriquet "Temu Trump".
But here's some good news: we had a shitstain of a candidate now called Austin "Aussie" Trump. When I checked this morning he was on 0.0% of the vote with 70% counted. He had two votes. TWO.
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Date: 2025-03-09 02:02 am (UTC)The thinking is that the "sensible centre" holds the line, we're far from having a cult of personality or fanatical party loyalty, and given how our senate is structured, you tend to have a splintering away from the majors to minor parties.
It works pretty well (mostly), all things considered, especially with ranked choice voting.
You can't do anything about low-information or single-issue voters, and populism will always attract a large swathe of voters, but at the moment we have a milquetoast PM and an opposition leader who has gained the sobriquet "Temu Trump".
But here's some good news: we had a shitstain of a candidate now called Austin "Aussie" Trump.
When I checked this morning he was on 0.0% of the vote with 70% counted.
He had two votes.
TWO.