The two-party system is falling apart

Australia’s election system gave the Labor Party a landslide, but unless he uses this moment to correct our broken democracy, he may be the one who left behind one day. Klaas Wolding.

Alp’s great election win is actually an exaggeration of exaggeration of the real result. The truth is that the first preferences for Alp represents more than one -third of the total primary voting and 34.5 percent. It is the result of Australia’s unfair election system to collect approximately 94 of the 150 seats with approximately 63 percent of the total number of seats. Single Member Regions.

Alp is now very much represented. However, this result provides that party a tremendous opportunity to bring major changes in domestic and international relations. However, if this great opportunity will not use Australia to correct the non -democratic election system, it may be the next time, as a result.

Attentionally, the potential division in the conservative coalition parties is another indication that the two -party system may be on the way out. As a result, the alleged power depends on an effective opposition party. The National Party has some definite claims that it is not ready to compromise – apparently four -. The maintenance of an uranium energy policy is the key to this.

The leaders of the past are of course in their arms. Comments of the old PM John Howard It reflects such a sound from the past, which means in time as PM, but the young generation clearly has other ideas. Continuing the uranium policy presented by the Nationals Leader David LittleProud It is acceptable for the sake of offering a united opposition by the liberal party, but for how long? We should also ask who represents an increasing number of green farmers? In a proportional system, green farmers would probably have their own parties.

Journalist Amy rameikis written Lately:

The division between liberals and citizens was clear for everyone who paid attention. We raised as early as the night of the election, citizens are going to Bolshie about the election results compared to the Liberal Party. They lost a chair in the Senate, and before the election, they could not regain Calare, which was accepted as precisely as the flies in a Dag – an absolute thing. There were also independent challenges in seats like Cowper, but it is not part of the tale of citizens.

If the opposition is allocated, there is no doubt that the two -party system is effectively finished. This happens to some extent, and those who are busy bringing it together will work hard to prevent it.

In fact, there is a conversation that Crossbenches will create a more effective opposition, so that the person cannot have democracy without a solid coalition of two major parties or at least one big parties and two small parties. Of course they are all nonsense, but it has been a result of thinking since the federation, but not before. And despite the effectiveness of proportional representation in the Senate.

Australia can do much better than bringing broken pieces together again and realizing that they are a better option if they can look beyond two -party political culture. I understand that this was a big question, but it was actually done by New Zealand and South Africa in the early 1990s and resulted in proportional representation in both countries.

In fact, it can be argued that the maintenance of the two -party system in South Africa for only the whites is the reason for the introduction and maintaining of Apartheid by the African White National Party. Nelson Mandela released.

The idea that it should be an official opposition party shows that one is a combination of two sides based on “labor ve and the other on“ capital in all forms. However, as Remikis points out, primary votes for labor and liberal parties are steadily decreasing.

The same thing is less accurate for the national party. And the preference system meant that the primary votes were not very important. Votes for small parties returned to the main branches as the second choices. The important thing was “the preferred vote with two parties ..

However, independent and small parties are better in every election. In addition, there are voters where one or the other of the large parties during the number of preferences are actually eliminated. The truth is that the two -party system is on the way out. Surprisingly, even after this election, it takes so long for the decline to take place and possibly take action.

This tendency is a good thing and also shows that hostility, polarization and pork barrel associated with existing political and election systems will disappear. It also shows that opposition does not have to imagine striking alternatives such as seven small nuclear power plants in conservative seats to win a choice.

In addition, improvements will be possible if parliaments are no longer shaped to reflect the opposition/hostile character of the existing system. In addition, it can be stopped from flowing money to marginal seats from flowing money to shake or support them to the government.

The growing cross wings offer a prominent message to change the selection system, not to create a different opposition. Does Alp listen now? If not, should be asked: Is Australia waking up? Do young people who move away from the big parties ask what alternatives in the world exist? Where is the political education that provides materials about the 90 states with proportional representation?

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Dr. Klaas Woldring, an old associate professor Southern Cross University and the former meeting of ABC Friends (Central Coast).

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