One of the underappreciated virtues of preferential voting isn’t that it produces winner/s most people are happy with.
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@liamvhogan most of them become staffers or consultants instead?
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Insurgo Formicareplied to Liam :fnord: last edited by
@liamvhogan @daedalus do Sarah McDonald and Dougal Saunders count?
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@daedalus yes, or to PR firms. And there’s a really strong pathway for staffers to Parliament, it’s one of the most common in fact. But almost never the media advisers. I struggle to think of even one.
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@liamvhogan @daedalus Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull...
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@nacho_borracho @daedalus good points
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@liamvhogan @daedalus there's a very depressing pol science thesis in there for someone who hates themselves enough
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@liamvhogan @nacho_borracho Zoe Daniel also. And there is a list of names in this piece from 2007 https://www.theage.com.au/national/journo-turning-politician-its-an-old-story-20070302-ge4c0m.html
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@daedalus @liamvhogan @nacho_borracho Pru Goward was another one
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Liam :fnord:replied to Ross Macfarlane last edited by
@rmtheriskmanagr @daedalus @nacho_borracho I’ll tell you what not only is my memory very defective, this is an absolute rogues’ gallery
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James Henstridgereplied to Liam :fnord: last edited by
@liamvhogan I'd think that's more of a single-member vs. multi-member electorate thing than preferences.
We use preferential voting for both the House of Reps and Senate, and it's far more common to see a single-party majority in the House than the Senate.