I'll be voting below the line, placing at the top anyone opposed to theocracy starting with ALA and anyone else confronting Islamisation and not including either corporate business party - LNP or ALP. In the Reps, Liberals last as they shift resources away from the impecunious to those who acquire wealth without ever creating, personally with their own hands and brains, any of it.

You sound quite pessimistic, sonofgloin. Why would you doubt it?

I don't think even politicians are stupid enough to ignore entirely the ideals of the those candidates that preference them, let alone the voters who voted for those candidates. Doing so could mean the difference between winning or losing an election.

I'd doubt governments, that are so overly focused on getting themselves re-elected, would completely ignore those who are preferencing them. If they are, then they need to sack their political strategists.