So, IIRC, Abbott was supposedly ousted cause he would have lost the next election and this other dude was gonna win it. And it turns out this dude Turnbull’s campaign was a bizarre joke and he blows the election?! Damn.
I have a question for you N-man, why is it that so many minor parties’s in Australia have someone’s name in their official title? Nick Xenophon Team, Katter’s Australian Party, Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party, Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, Jacqui Lambie Network. It seems like an odd quirk to me.
Some freepers like to attack the US Senate’s election system and want to go back to having Senators elected by a small group of politicians instead of the people.
UK House of Lords, illegitimate, just a waste of money now that it’s powerless.
Canadian Senate, a joke.
Australian Senate, unusual election system enables tiny weird parties and gives them the balance of power.
I’ll take the US Senate any day.
Yes, that's pretty much the size of it.
I have a question for you N-man, why is it that so many minor parties’s in Australia have someone’s name in their official title? Nick Xenophon Team, Katter’s Australian Party, Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party, Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, Jacqui Lambie Network. It seems like an odd quirk to me.
In most of the cases you describe, it's because the person in question was originally elected as an independent and has been successful enough in presenting their policies that the idea of a party around them began to make sense - but they are identified by their names so keeping their name in the title is important in terms of people knowing who they are. That's true of Hanson, Xenophon, Katter and Lambie. Bob Katter didn't originally want to do that - he wanted to name his party 'The Australian Party' but the Australian Electoral Commission would not allow that name on the grounds of it being too generic, so he put his name on it. Derryn Hinch is a different category - he's a major media personality and has been for decades and name recognition is really important to him - he's often called 'the human headline' in Australia.
Australian Senate, unusual election system enables tiny weird parties and gives them the balance of power.
I think most people in Australia would agree that the Senate is now dysfunctional, but nobody so far has been able to come up with a better system that will get through the Senate - it needs to vote to reform itself and the Senators, having been elected, like it the way it is.
Malcolm Turnbull is the man who broke the Liberal Party's heart.