Liberal candidates who care about the environment are winning our seats!

You’d think this would be the wake-up call to shift the needle on party policy regarding the environment. But nope.

“If Australia had a first-past-the-post system, none of the six teals who entered the parliament in 2022 would have been elected” he declared. “Of the six, most had a first preference vote which was only in the 30s or even 20s, a long way behind the first-preference vote secured by the Liberal candidate.”

This is a good thing, mate. I’d preference a teal candidate over a Liberal candidate any day. And it turns out, that goes for a lot of us. I’m glad we don’t have a first-past-the-post system. It forces people to hold their nose and vote for a candidate they think has a chance of winning, just to prevent the candidate they hate from getting in. I much prefer having the choice of voting for who I want, and then falling back to my second, third, fourth choices instead of being forced to vote for my sixth-preferred candidate, just to prevent my ninth-preferred candidate from getting in.