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Proportional Representation Society of
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Tel +61429176725 |
npres@prsa.org.au | 2019-05-18 | ||
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on the 2019 Liberal Party how-to-vote card below
for a zoomable picture of it, for finer detail. The
card below names no Liberal or National Party
candidates for the Senate, but it does name Derryn
Hinch, from a rival party! Its failure to
name any such Liberal or Nationals candidates
amounts to its asking voters to elect unnamed
persons.
The three largest parties resent the increasing success of smaller parties in the Senate. Nevertheless, parties that successfully exploit a candidate's name; Hanson, Xenophon, Lambie and Hinch; together elected as many senators as the Greens in 2016. The Liberals curiously advantage their smaller rivals by stubbornly refusing to show their own Senate candidates' names on their how-to-vote cards, as though - unlike their smaller rivals - the Liberals have no Senate candidates that would be recognized or appeal to voters as individuals, or it does not respect the democratic significance of the Constitution's requirement for the direct election of senators. The card ineptly ignores, and thus potentially offends, below-the-line voters, who obviously think that there is a need to number the boxes below the thick black line, by the card's standard negative message that there is "no need to number the boxes below the thick black line". |
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