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24 days ago@DavidDoesLemmy @Auzy Can’t believe that people are still parroting the “abolishing negative gearing will make rentals more expensive” line. Like trickle down economics and the benefits of privatisation, It was a crock of shit in the 80s it’s a crock of shit now.
Putting the money that we’re giving to landlords into social housing will make rentals go down. Reducing the price of property which is being pushed up by investors with their wallets stuffed with handouts will make rentals go down.
@joshcodes
“The green ballot is just counted up, and the person with the most votes wins.” Nope. That’s the Seppo system, thank fuck we don’t do that shit here.
The green ballot is a single winner instant runoff vote (to give it it’s “well akshully” name).
So they count the first preferences, then the candidate with the least first preferences has their ballot papers distributed to the number 2 choice on each one (at full value). Then the next least has theirs redistributed, and so on, until there is a candidate with >50%. This means I can vote 1 for my local gay-furry-legalise-ecstasy independent, and if they don’t get in my preference will flow to the least fascist big boring centrist party that I put first in my preferences.
Here’s the Australien Honest explainer video, it should be required viewing:
https://youtu.be/zXHq04W0kBs
@atro_city