#compulsoryvoting — Public Fediverse posts

@Kirsty Spot on – but this is straight out of the USA blueprint.
Howard's privatisation push (scrapping New Schools Policy, flooding private schools with public cash) mirrors US "school choice" reforms that boost charters/vouchers while starving public systems. Goal? Keep the masses under-educated, divided, and less likely to challenge the elite.
All we need now is to ditch compulsory voting (like most of the US), and watch the systematic sell-off of what's left of our public assets accelerate – no pesky informed voter turnout to stop it.
Education as a two-tier racket, democracy next? Not on my watch.
#Australia #EducationPrivatisation #SchoolChoice #USModel #CompulsoryVoting #PublicAssets #Inequality #CostOfLivingCrisis #Sydney

All countries that claim to practice 'compulsory voting', don't. Because they all offer a 'no confidence' option. Which is, in effect, not voting.

It's a nonsense, and a distraction from meaningful attempts at democratic reform

https://nzpod.co.nz/podcast/past-present-future/fixing-democracy-compulsory-voting

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#podcasts #DavidRunciman #PastPresentFuture #democracy #elections #CompulsoryVoting

Maybe #Straya need to regime change the #USA and install a real democracy?

#PreferentialVoting aka #RankedChoiceBallots

#Voting on a Saturday, with a polling place within walking distance for most people, easy to #vote in advance, and not too tricky to vote by post

and an independent federal body to draw electorate (district) boundaries, run polling places, and run the counting - like our #AEC https://www.aec.gov.au/

The Yanks can skip the #CompulsoryVoting if they insist. But it is good for calming politics no need for the "bring out the vote" intensity with "or the opposition will eat your kids" madness. And it makes some fraud even harder to do - like voter impersonation or dead people voting - if everybody votes in every election.

#Australian #democracy is not perfect, but i think we're probably close to the "least-broken"?

Our worst problem is #mining company influence, to parties and the public
🎶you're gonna get whacked, by the mining tax🎶

The expanding #Green and #Teal #CrossBench is providing some push back on the #mining lobby's environmental bullshit.

But we're still getting ripped off, if the government says we "can't afford" something, they're lying. We have an entire continent full of almost every mineral the world wants to buy, we just need to #tax it properly or nationalise it, not let a few individuals hoard all the profits.

But if we went full محمد مصدق or #Gough #Whitlam … then our friends the USA might decide we'd picked the wrong government and change it for us?

I don't necessarily want to change their government, I want to change how they elect it.

a #TwoPartyState is not really any better than a #OnePartyState

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#AUKUS #Teals #GoughWhitlam #ClivePalmer #GinaReinheart #GinaRinehart #GautamAdani
#محمدمصدق