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Does Albo’s mandate to ‘change Australia’ stand up?

28 May 2022

9:00 AM

28 May 2022

9:00 AM

Get used to the new order in Australian politics. On 21 May, the more-than two-thirds of Australians who did not vote 1 for Labor nevertheless ended up with an Albo Labor government – and a Senate with the Greens holding the balance of power. Does this really reflect the will of Mr and Mrs Australia (in other words the great majority who still use those non-woke terms) or is it an unintended consequence of a long-established (and occasionally malfunctioning – as in some past absurd Senate outcomes) preferential voting system? Under it, every now and again members are elected to...

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