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Time for the major parties to acknowledge their significant others : Comments
By Richard Denniss and Brenton Prosser, published 12/9/2013Australia wants political arrangements 'other' than what the major parties intended.
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In the senate the combined primary votes for the two major parties are -
SA - 49.60% with Nick X getting almost 26% on his own, in SA we elected three non major party senators this time around and dumped that fool Farrell.
WA - one would think the two parties would rule, not true - the vote was 66.5%
NSW - 66%
Tas 70.6%
Qld - 69%
Vic - 72%
NT - where it used to be virtually a 50/50 tie for votes they only scored 75%
ACT - ditto to NT but the vote dropped to 69%.
Overall 67% of the vote shared between the two major parties is a rapid decline with 16 non major party senators now elected.
In the upper house the two major parties only shared 70% of the vote with the ALP as the biggest single party vote getter.