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Where is our politics going? : Comments
By Don Aitkin, published 20/7/2017I think we are seeing a slow shift to something with which Europeans are more familiar than Australians, a more-or-less stable multi-party system.
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I am well aware of how the preferential voting system works.
Of course there are many occasions where the party with the most first preferences doesn't get the seat. And rightly so.
But the winner is NEVER EVER the candidate with the FEWEST first preferences, because that candidate is first to get eliminated and their preferences redistributed.
As for proportional voting, there are arguments for and against. But you seem to have failed to notice that it's with senate preferences that most of the deals are done.
I think as more people abandon the major parties, HTV cards will become much less significant. I've never voted a particular way because a HTV card said to.