Monday, March 26, 2012



Queensland elections

The Australian state of Queensland went to the polls over the weekend, and delivered a landslide against the incumbent Labor government. But in addition to being a lesson of what happens to parties of corrupt privatisers, the results are also another reminder of the unfairness of the Australian electoral system:

Party% VoteSeats% Seats
Liberal-National49.687887.6
Labour26.9477.9
Australian11.5022.2
Greens7.2700.0
Others4.6222.2

Fifty percent of the vote, ninety percent of the seats. Yeah, that's fair. Not. Again, Australia needs proportional representation, and the sooner, the better.