RE: Thoughts on the Australian Election Result
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It's interesting, I've seen a few weird takes on Twitter from (hopefully non-Australians...) saying that Australian compulsory voting is coercive from a government... they don't seem to realise that we can just collect our sausage and then eat the ballot paper with it if we want. I think that all of nation voting is one of the best models of election... if only we also got proportional representation as well....
And interesting that you also did a similar thing.... voting Labour as a vote against Liberal. Sort of sad that that seems to have been the way that most people voted... I would rather I voted for something I wanted rather than something I didn't want...
I do hope that the Liberals do reshape themselves... but with such a wipeout, maybe there aren't enough moderates left, and a different lesson is learnt?
Yeah sometimes the criticism on Hive about our compulsory voting makes me feel I'm brainwashed or something as I get quite defensive about it. It works for us and it's better than other countries where they still have the same system even if they protest against it by not voting or the disenfranchised don't get to the polls - and then the president says it's rigged. I mean, I'm not naming any countries here.
Remains to be seen really - I don't like doom saying before it's happened, although it appeared quite quickly with Trump that was perfectly justified.