Ben is joined today by Kevin Bonham to talk about the Victorian upper house voting system. We discuss the group voting tickets released on Sunday, the dynamics of how the electoral system plays out, why you should vote below the line and the difference that voting below the line makes, and how the system could be reformed.
- Who would’ve won in past elections without group voting tickets.
- How below-the-line voting changed the results in 2018.
- What the group voting tickets look like in 2022.
- Kevin’s assessments of each party’s position on GVT reform
- Kevin’s analysis of the 2018 election result
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In reference to the comments in the podcast about a referendum, the Victorian constitution doesn’t need a referendum to be changed.
GVT Proponent and part-time supervillain Glenn Druery recently had a private conversation between himself and people from the Angry Victorians Party leaked. I think Druery is talking a very big game for someone whose Alliance is quite deprecated compared to 2018. Not just talking about the AJP doublecross, but the move of parties on both the left and the right to arrange their tickets by ideology rather than minor vs major. Here I go operating on vibes again, but the feeling I get is that the end is nigh for the GVT, and if the Labor party wanted to, they probably could get rid of the thing in the next term of government, as the crossbench is slipping out of Druery’s grip. You can view the leaked conversation here:
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