So you’ll put Labor below One Nation?
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mtpender@aussie.zone 4 days ago
I’ll be voting all minor parties across the board with the major parties right at the bottom. If the major parties want people to vote for them, they should try listening to the people and fixing the housing crisis and cost-of-living crisis.
Remove negative gearing, remove capital gains tax concessions, implement net-zero immigration, outlaw AirBnB, make foreign investment into residential property illegal, introduce a vacancy tax, punish developers who conduct “land-banking” and invest in TAFE to train the people we need locally.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Deceptichum@quokk.au 4 days ago
You no longer have to vote for the majors at all. We can now withhold votes completely.
NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 4 days ago
exhausting your vote might be bad depending on your seat.
Also be careful with some minors. There are a lot that are essentially just the LNP or worse.
vividspecter@lemm.ee 3 days ago
That’s a wasted vote, and not an option in the federal elections. It’s just as important to keep the extreme right-wing Liberal and National parties from power, as it is to preference the better minor parties (make sure to investigate as some minors and independents are extreme right-wing nutbags)>
Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 days ago
It’s important to keep all right wing parties from power Lib or Lab.
eureka@aussie.zone 3 days ago
Yes, and abstaining only gives them a larger proportion of the votes.
Find the left wing candidates (the senate has some even if your local ballot doesn’t) and preference them, if you want to help keep out Lib and Lab.
vividspecter@lemm.ee 2 days ago
The ordering of how right wing they are matters. That’s the whole point of preferential voting.
If you abstain from ranking all candidates, you are acting the same as US voters claiming that “both sides are the same” and then not voting, particularly if your preferred minor candidate(s) doesn’t have a chance of winning in your electorate.
Whirlybird@aussie.zone 3 days ago
Cause left wing has been working so well…….
shirro@aussie.zone 2 days ago
That is a terrible idea. You just threw your vote away, That is how the really bad guys get in.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 2 days ago
This isn’t America mate.
shirro@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Exaclty. They have a dumbarse first past the post system where you either vote for a shit party or throw your vote away. So people throw their vote away if they are disillusioned with the shit two party system.
We have an S tier electoral system where you can rank your preferences and make politicians aware that people are voting for particular issues and still make sure your vote goes to the least bad major. We don’t want the sort of ignorance they have in the US where nobody gives a fuck and votes then they act all surprised with the results. Fuck that. As major parties go the ALP is ok. They won’t be my first choice but I am not leaving a vote that impacts my family to a bunch of News Corp readers.
zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 4 days ago
In some states, but not in federal elections
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
This is pretty radical economic policy.
Is there any research supporting all of this or just the vibe?
Labor ran on negative gearing reform and we got morisson.