is mise you baffle me! do you truly think you need 50 percent to be elected?
Preferences counted will determine who wins that seat
My target was the chook pen
micro parties won seats by preference Anning got 19 first preference votes,preferences put the fool into the chook pen
This country has had many Annings, from PUP and one nation elected then changing party,s is that fair to the voters who put them there
One vote one value *ensures voters get the government they want*

Armchair Critic- I am fascinated by the great sailing ships, the ship building industry and the brave journeys they took such as those to Australia. I'm certain I'm not alone in this. They nailed together bits of wood and travelled 17,000kms. There are similar references in Moby Dick, Hornblower, Patrick O'Brian (Master and Commander), and in the stories of James Cook, Matthew Flinders, William Bligh, terrifying journies around South Africa and South America.

To Armchair Critic- Also using "allusion".

Belly,

"is mise you baffle me! do you truly think you need 50 percent to be elected?"

Yes, that's why we have preferential voting, if no one gets 50% plus on the first count then preferences are distributed until some contender gets enough voters who PREFER him/her to all the others.

You keep going back to the lower house mate
Do you not see by and large the two majors get most seats there
IF we had one vote one value in the chook pens we would have few if any Ac/ONE NATION/ and micro party,s
Reforms that have been done will see a far different senate this time

Canem Malum if you are interested in information & the experiences of the great days of commercial sail, track down a copy of Francis Chichester's "Along the Clipper Way". It is a collection of stories by dozens of sailors from the days of sailing ships.

He found all this stuff when he was researching for his single handed circumnavigation in his yacht Gipsy Moth. The yacht named to remember his earlier circumnavigation in a Gipsy Moth biplane.

I read it when I was planning my own bit of sailing around the Pacific, & was fascinated at the experiences & hardship overcome by those sailors. It is the best reference I found to individual experiences from those days.

One fascinating story I found was of a ship leaving New Castle NSW with a cargo of coal for Adelaide. After spending months trying to beat to windward against the roaring 40s cross the bight, the skipper ported the helm as they say, & sailed east about, arriving in Adelaide from the west some 600 days out of New Castle, sailing out of the record of missing ships.

When I was sailing sat nav was way out of the reach of private yachties, & most radios were good for only a couple of hundred miles, so many yachties sailed out of the "Missing" lists.