Few points there. Even if it wasn't a TPP system Labor still polled the highest so if it was a UK model of first past the post it means Labor got in.
Preferences are good because PEOPLE get to say where their vote goes if their preferred candidate didn't get elected.
As someone who volunteered on polling day and scrutineered I can tell you, not many followed How To Vote cards. The vast majority put Labor higher than the Liberals.
I agree these results were FANFUCKINGTASTIC it sent a message to the majors to get your shit together.
I disagree with your position on the TPP not working because MANY independents won. The majority don't just blindly vote they do watch things. It also shows that Labor is becoming a party of government.
FYI these are the most successive years of election in OUR 100+ year existence (yes I'm a Labor member)
Why? Because we have the highest amount of first nations elected to office and my wife is also elected as a local government councillor doing good.
I am the Vic state president of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Committee and it has taken 234 years but we're finally getting a treaty.
Australia has had a voice and it is as loud as anything. Change is coming finally!
Thank you for a considered and rational comment.
Lets hope that changes build momentum and stay implemented as time goes on. It's very easy for a party to undo any good that the previous party did. For Labour, this time around, they have the, chance to do the opposite - to undo the evil that the Libs did but the bar for improvement is very low so they only need to do a little to be thought of by the masses as doing great things.
It's great that more first nations folk are getting positions though. Our friend Moogy Sumner running was the only reason I participated in this election at all.
But we will have to watch Labour very carefully. They are just a political party after all and as open to the promotion of self interest as the other mob. it doesn't matter where you come from, once you are a politician, your job is being a politician and much of that job is about pleasing your backers.
One of the reasons I started playing around with blockchain based concepts is that running an election via blockchain tech is probably the best way that we have of guaranteeing electoral honesty both during the election and after. After all, most electioneering as it stands now is based on the idea that there's nothing to guarantee that a party keeps its election promises. Big promises, negative results.
They're taking off on a great start I rekon.
I love Kon!
He does great work within the ASRC. I met him many moons ago. Great person
Let's see in a year. Most newly elected governments get off to a good start, promises come quick and easy immediately after an election. They have some, basically, existential crises to guide us through and I don't have a lot of faith that they can do it but we will see.