Yeah I understand the lack of clarity in that statement, and I have no doubt that if he could get away with it he’d get rid of preferential voting in its entirety. But if you look at the context where the LNP has been pointing to the Fitzgerald Inquiry, and the comments by the Brisbane Lord Mayor, and the fact that Australians on the whole are very proud of our preferential voting system, he’s definitely only proposing switching to optional preferential. Which is dangerous enough, considering how effective the LNP’s “just vote 1” campaigns have been at Council elections.
spiffmeister@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Fair call. It would be nice if QLD had an upper house to hopefully block proposals like this.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Yeah absolutely. Or if we had a unicameral proportionally representative lower house, like New Zealand’s national parliament, that would also be an improvement over the current situation.