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Taleya@aussie.zone 1 week agook no.
That is not how voting works in Australia. At all. Preferential voting means you directly put smaller parties and independents in the house and in the senate, meaning they then have very real power in the Australian government regardless of who is actually PM.
You know how there’s always those articles about the party in power having to negotiate with members to get things happening? Yeah, that’s because of our voting system that put those members from small parties and independents into the seats of power. You’re reading a script that applies more aptly to the US than anything else.
Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Oh I’m aware, I said as much in another comment. Sorry, I’ve mislead you on what I meant.
My problem with voting is that the entire system of government in this country does not do anything to meaningfully address the problems of entire swathes of the population, and voting does very very little to address that.
It appears to work, if you’re sufficiently privileged to not be among those persecuted, oppressed, raped and murdered by those in power. There are individual issues that are sufficiently mainstream so as to be addressible in this way, and climate change is one of them, but even still we needed to have made major change a long time ago.