Comment on Australia 2025 – Wrap-up of the night
Dimand@aussie.zone 20 hours agoPeople in the minority of their electorate will always feel a bit salty about the outcome, but that’s unsolvable. Having the senate mitigates this already in my opinion, where the greens have roughly proportional representation. There is perhaps an argument to make the senate pool federal rather than state and territory based (looking at you Tasmania).
Moving the lower house to a federal type pool would remove any chance of area localised representation. Not that our current system is great at that with most MPs only caring about the party line, but at last some electorates have members that care about local issues.
Moving the lower house to a federal type pool would remove any chance of area localised representation
Not if it was a federal pool using the MMP system that they have in Germany and NZ. You get a local member and there’s a pool of proportional party members on top of that.
maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 20 hours ago
For the lower house I was thinking of something more like multi-member proportional voting with some sane thresholds that candidates have to meet to get elected. So for example in seats like Wills the community is represented by the two candidates that the community overwhelmingly favoured and who basically got the same amount of votes.
Dimand@aussie.zone 20 hours ago
I think there needs to be a winner, otherwise nothing gets done, and the government system is already very inefficient in this regard. On the far end of this scale, every person votes on every bit of legislation, but in the end it will usually wash out the same only with the added overhead.
It’s fun to theory craft. But the stark reality here is it’s probably impossible to pass a referendum that changes any of this.
maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 19 hours ago
A referendum would be required?