Formersnag - your proposal would result in a National or a Liberal being elected. To avoid that you have to actually stop the flow of preferences.

Of course your rant may have just been an anti-Greens rant, nothing to do with the article or my comment, it's hard to tell.

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//Voters can only let politicians know we’re sick of their lies, the sophistry and the back downs from the great and small moral challenges.//

EXACTLY.. and where do voters go when they are in this condition ?

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/41118/

see the vid...and before you go off half cocked about 'nutcase'.. see the one great truth about Beck...when he makes an assertion.. usually the very next thing he does is SHOW the evidence or speaker mouthing off.

The Unions demanded HUGE unsustainable pensions..(years ago) Beck went on air saying "These are not sustainable"
Today the Washington Post contained a story "Unions call for 340billion bailout for pensions" :)

Speaking of snakes.. Obama's 'stimulus' package was written by Marxists. The Appollo foundation.. see who is on 'that' little body.

Neither of the leaders are speaking directly to the electorate, both are performing for their deputies. Men posture for the attention of women. Chest thumping displays of obfuscation and wilful obstruction are de rigeur. In the circumstance the expectation the electorate should be a primary consideration is absurd. The men who established Australia's legislatures never intended they would be anything other than men's legislatures to which women are admitted under supervision. Women would have to wait until they gained sufficient experience before they could have legislatures of their own, effective of when the parliament grinds to halt. Sufficient is the present. Lady snake is still in the tree while Candice crocodile is rolling with glee! Leave their mates go free, they're not after thee, and provision the nation with a fair dinkum tinnie.