Considering almost half Tasmanian adults are functionally illiterate that seems like One Nation is doing pretty poorly in their core demographic. Maybe if more mining kicks off in Tassie Gina will give enough fucks about the balance of power and buy some electorates for her sock puppet party.
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Hopefully they’re just LNP voters switching over. Like I’m basically voting Greens before ALP these days.
No argument here, so long as something goes towards keeping the racist scum out of power. Don’t follow the Yankee example.
Polls for PHON are above 25% nationally, so, sadly, this is below average.
Ehh it’s one thing to say you will vote with the rabid racists that are being legitimised by the mainstream mid cycle between elections. It’s another to vote that way at the ballot box.
Plus a significant proportion can intend to vote for the red headed freak all they want. It’s a bit more difficult when they have to remember the verbal instructions from the electoral worker, make it to a booth and remember how to write to manifest that desire.
Honestly, it’s the Sky News, Channel Nine, Facebook crowd that will buoy PHON up. The same people who will decry that the left have gone to far because trans people exist, who waffle on about death taxes as though they will have a big enough estate to be affected one way or another, and who talk about having to be economically responsible and living within our needs as a country while ignoring the Billions in corporate welfare and tax cuts for the rich. Fucking Idiots in other words, and yet their vote carries as much weight as mine or yours, its kinda disgusting really.
A 3 question civics test before you can vote would destroy whole blocs of voters in Australia. Just get them to identify how a progressive income tax works, which country is the biggest greenhouse gas emitter in the OECD, and which parts of the Miranda Rights apply to them, boom PHON gets a dozen votes across the whole country.
A 3 question civics test before you can vote would destroy whole blocs of voters in Australia. Just get them to identify how a progressive income tax works, which country is the biggest greenhouse gas emitter in the OECD, and which parts of the Miranda Rights apply to them, boom PHON gets a dozen votes across the whole country.
Having some kind of extremely-low barrier, pre-declared multiple-choice test questions in order to gain ballot access is an idea I’ve played around with. Literally mail out a pamphlet with the questions and answers, drafted by the AEC and approved by as many candidates/parties as possible to prevent it being unneutral or propagandised. Objective things like “Which of these services does the federal government handle?” and “Which of these is the typical income of an average Australian?”. And if, for whatever reason, you can’t answer these simple questions, you aren’t informed enough to help decide who represents us in our democratic system.
Relevant, but not quite the same: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemic_democracy
Sorry, but I disagree.
you aren’t informed enough to help decide who represents us in our democratic system
I can guarantee you I don’t know enough about the candidates in my electorate. And I purposely allocate and spend time looking at them before I go to vote. Also, my vote has probably never made any difference at all in who was elected.
Unless. Wait…
Oh. I get it. Maybe I am one of those who don’t deserve a vote.
More a test on the fundamentals of our government structure. I actually believe not knowing your candidates and their positions is a sign that they aren’t communicating them effectively. Not knowing the difference between say State and Federal levels of government means you personally lack knowledge of the fundamentals. If that makes sense.
