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John Daysh,
I didn't expect this to start that soon !

Indyvidual,

I’ve seen that line of reasoning doing the rounds amongst young bogans in rightist echo chambers, but I would have expected that someone of your more advanced age would understand how preferences work.

This was all covered in detail a few weeks ago when it was explained to ttbn.

We don’t elect governments by adding up everyone’s first preferences nationally. We elect one MP per seat, and each seat is won only after someone gets over 50% of the vote in that seat - including preferences. That’s how the House’s preferential system works.

Preferences aren’t “back-room deals” either. Parties can hand out cards suggesting an order, but voters number the boxes themselves, and that’s what the AEC counts.

If you look at the measure that actually compares Labor and Coalition after preferences - the two-party-preferred - Labor won 52.13% to the Coalition’s 47.87%. That’s a clear majority under the system we’ve used for over a century.

And if a government needs 50% of the primary vote to have a mandate, then plenty of past Coalition governments were “illegitimate” too - including Howard’s in 1998, when he actually lost the national two-party-preferred.

Basically, Labor won the seats, won the two-party vote, and formed government exactly the way the rules have always said you do.

But this is off-topic.

But this is off-topic.
John Daysh,
You wish ! It's your echo chamber vs ours. The people are fed up with forking out for tax after tax to keep your bandwagon rolling. How about substance in place of perpetual theory for a change ?

Indy,

What us taxpayers are fed up with is forking out tax after tax to keep YOU with your snout firmly fixed in the aged welfare trough. Why don't YOU do us all a favor, and pack up and get back to where YOU came? That's right YOU can't, your mob bombed that sh!thole out of existence!

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Paul1405,
Your mates in New York ?

What's your point Indy, trying to point out more of your CONCRETE JUNGLE BUNNIES are you. Looked like a bunch of blokes having an argument to me. At least my culture is not like yours, we don't run around setting each others pants on fire, that's what your mob do!