I am a thirty something married gay boy living in Sydney, almost on top of the gay scene but not in it!
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Something I dislike
Something I hate about our particular brand of democracy is that someone with less than 2% of a popular vote can control the Senate.
This guy Steve Fielding from Family First received less than 2% of the popular vote, yet he likes to try and control the Senate because he can.
This might be democracy but I dislike having someone with such a small minority of the votes behind them and his extremish religious views can wield so much power!
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how can somebody with only 2% of the vote be controlling the senate? are there that many political parties in Australia that somebody with 2% is still in the majority?
He only gets to exercise his vote when the two major parties agree to disagree. We get into this situation because the major parties always vote as a block. If the politicians were all independent then the parliament would be the debates occur and the laws are made. Instead we have the current situation where everything is decided behind the closed doors in meeting with lobbyists and other politicians.
I read that Hartcher wants to reform the senate, four year maximum terms which are re-elected every time a general election is held.
I am not sure of the pros and cons of this but it sounds on the first glance like a good idea!
yeah thats how it is in Canada too, except our seante doesn't actually do anything so we don't have to worry about it.
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