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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 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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