Two micro-parties wanting to legalise marijuana and adopt daylight saving now have a voice on the crossbench of Western Australia's Upper House, despite receiving just a fraction of the primary vote.They received 2 and 0.2 per cent of the primary vote, respectivelyThe Legalise Marijuana WA Party's Sophia Moermond has secured a seat in the Legislative Council's South West region from 2 per cent of votes.
It is possible due to preference harvesting deals among micro-parties, where parties take turns in preferencing each other high in one region to boost their percentage of the vote.
Brilliant system. Time for optional preferential voting?
🤣 daylight savings party!
charlottehamlyn bengubana fnd_alex Without introducing proportional voting Australia cannot safeguard its democracy nor proceed on many important policy decisions
We need an overhall of the preferences. I'd suggest it says people are sick of the major parties crap.
Curtains either going to fade or go yellow...
Decriminalise canabis at the very least. I don't smoke it but I've never seen any form of violent behavior from anyone that does. Many people I've known that do use it, smoke it as a sleeping sedative. Good on them I say.
Lol April Fools I think!
Both of them will do little more than collect their $300k salary, allowance & super package for 4 years With Labor having an overwhelming majority in both Houses, cross bench parties will play an even more irrelevant role in parliament than the major parties
Don’t legalize cannabis
Let's see if they can deliver on their policies !!! MarijuanaParty
Upper house is typically stocked with fruitcakes and halfwits
Yeah legalise it now after taking children off their parents for smoking pot. You disgust me.
Wow
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