RS> Completely hopeless. Dont get even out of single digit percentage of
RS> the vote, claim that you have the right to decide almost everything.

They don't actually.  The Labor party gets to decide half the time,
and the Liberals get to decide the other half.  All the Democrats
get to do is choose one or the other.  And since 50% of Australians
support Labor, and 50% support Liberal, or at least that's what it
normally is, every single election, it sounds pretty fair to me.

RS> Soorree, the voters have spoken and the Coalition got the nod.
RS> In the biggest avalanche seen since the war.

The Liberals only had about 50% of the vote, not an avalanche.

RS> There is something fundamentally wrong with an electoral
RS> system which produces a avalanche in the lower house
RS> and doesnt even deliver a majority in the Senate.

There is something fundamentally wrong with an electoral system
which gives a party 70% of the seats with 50% of the vote.

And in either case, the government is welcome to call a double
dissolution or hold a referendum, and let the voters decide for
themselves whether they agree with what the Democrats are doing.
And with 70% of Australians not wanting to sell Telstra, I can't
see them doing that any time soon.

BTW, just for the record, I'm in the 30%.  Any government-run
enterprise is socialism at work, which should be stamped out to
the most practical extent possible.  BFN.  Paul.
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