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It’s preferential FPTP, if no candidate gets 50% the lowest vote candidate is eliminated and preferences are distributed, repeat until there is a winner

Labour is centre-left Liberal/National Coalition is centre-right but ran on a further right platform and had their arse handed to them Greens are left Most of the Teal Independents would be considered left to centre-left There are a variety of fuckwads running right to far-right platforms (Seriously, what kind of cunt do you have to be to think Palmer or Hanson could run a country anywhere other than into the ground)

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eureka@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

It’s preferential FPTP

This contradicts FPTP - Australia does not use FPTP.

They’re far from perfect, but the alternative was Donald Dutton

I get what you’re saying, but there were other viable alternatives (as unlikely as they were!) precisely because we aren’t in a two-party FPTP system.

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- MisterFrog@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  The lower house single-member electorate voting system does still favour larger parties, it’s just way, way, better than FPTP.
  
  oercollective.caul.edu.au/…/electoral-systems/
  
  Relevant part starts at “Majoritarian (or ‘winner takes all’) systems” about a third of the way down.
  
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