The Turnbull government’s proposal, supported by the Greens, to allow optional preferential voting in Senate elections should be adopted by all senators as a matter of basic democratic principle, whatever the motives of the proponents. After all, the Constitution requires that senators be ‘directly chosen by the people’. And that is how it should be in a democracy worthy of the name.
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David Flint, a regular contributor, raised the issue of senate preferential voting in Give Us Back Our Country (with Jai Martinkovits), Connor Court
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