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Can someone explain Australian parties to me? (fedia.io)
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Y'all have first past the post / winner takes all, don't you? There was a vote recently and "labor" won from what I'm reading?

Labor, coalition, independents, etc. what kinds of parties are these? I thought Albanese was a "cunt" yet his party seems to have won again? What's going on?

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[-] incogtino@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's preferential ~~FPTP~~ run-off, if no candidate gets 50% the lowest vote candidate is eliminated and preferences are distributed, repeat until there is a winner

  • Labor is centre-left
  • Liberal/National Coalition is centre-right but ran on a further right platform and had their arse handed to them
  • Greens are left
  • Most of the Teal Independents would be considered left to centre-left
  • There are a variety of fuckwads running right to far-right platforms (Seriously, what kind of cunt do you have to be to think Palmer or Hanson could run a country anywhere other than into the ground)

The incumbent represents stability, and that is what most people want right now. They're far from perfect, but the alternative was Donald Dutton

[-] eureka@aussie.zone 6 points 3 days ago

It’s preferential FPTP

This contradicts FPTP - Australia does not use FPTP.

They’re far from perfect, but the alternative was Donald Dutton

I get what you're saying, but there were other viable alternatives (as unlikely as they were!) precisely because we aren't in a two-party FPTP system.

[-] MisterFrog@aussie.zone 3 points 3 days ago

The lower house single-member electorate voting system does still favour larger parties, it's just way, way, better than FPTP.

https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/aust-politics-policy/chapter/electoral-systems/

Relevant part starts at "Majoritarian (or ‘winner takes all’) systems" about a third of the way down.

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