Australia desperately needs many electoral reforms, and there’s much debate to be had about them. We must face the reality that compulsory voting and electioneering at polling places give far too many uncaring and lazy people an influence on the future of our nation. That can only accidentally result in good policy – but never has.

When we do have electoral ‘reform’, it is not to advance proportionate representation but to entrench the political duopoly of major party power in Parliaments.