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Some people will never stop voting for Coalition or Labor (or Greens). Some people might swap between these parties but would never vote for a new/minor party.
This thread is intended for those posters who don't fall into either category above. I'm curious to learn what key policies might entice you to vote 1, at least in the Senate if not in the House, for a new/minor party should one emerge on a platform you agree with.
We've seen somewhat similar threads before, but most of them have been centred on what people would do if they led the nation, while a couple have focused on general policy wishlists (see here and here).
What I'm interested in is what policies a new/minor party would have to propose for you to vote for them, even if you knew they were unlikely to form government any time soon (if ever). What issues are so important to you (and that you feel the major parties are ignoring) that you would vote accordingly if a party was running with a solution you believed in?
If you are somebody who has only one policy that would be enough to win your vote, list only that policy. If you are somebody who would have to see four specific policies to win your vote, list all four. And so on.
Assume that whatever policies this hypothetical party takes to the election are their only policies and they commit to voting with the government of the day on any issues outside of their specific policy agenda (i.e. if you list 'lower corp tax' and '2% gdp defence spending', you are saying you would vote for a party that goes to the election with these two issues as its platform and promises to vote with the government of the day on all other issues).
Bear in mind of course that we have a preferential voting system in Australia so even if you were to vote for this hypothetical party and they failed to win a seat, you can still preference your favourite major party and your vote is worth just as much as if you had voted 1 for them in the first place. If nothing else your vote would be recorded as support for the platform of the new/minor party which might sway future policy promises of other parties (including the majors).
As usual I will post my own thoughts later in the thread so as not to slant the thread's discussion.
This thread is intended for those posters who don't fall into either category above. I'm curious to learn what key policies might entice you to vote 1, at least in the Senate if not in the House, for a new/minor party should one emerge on a platform you agree with.
We've seen somewhat similar threads before, but most of them have been centred on what people would do if they led the nation, while a couple have focused on general policy wishlists (see here and here).
What I'm interested in is what policies a new/minor party would have to propose for you to vote for them, even if you knew they were unlikely to form government any time soon (if ever). What issues are so important to you (and that you feel the major parties are ignoring) that you would vote accordingly if a party was running with a solution you believed in?
If you are somebody who has only one policy that would be enough to win your vote, list only that policy. If you are somebody who would have to see four specific policies to win your vote, list all four. And so on.
Assume that whatever policies this hypothetical party takes to the election are their only policies and they commit to voting with the government of the day on any issues outside of their specific policy agenda (i.e. if you list 'lower corp tax' and '2% gdp defence spending', you are saying you would vote for a party that goes to the election with these two issues as its platform and promises to vote with the government of the day on all other issues).
Bear in mind of course that we have a preferential voting system in Australia so even if you were to vote for this hypothetical party and they failed to win a seat, you can still preference your favourite major party and your vote is worth just as much as if you had voted 1 for them in the first place. If nothing else your vote would be recorded as support for the platform of the new/minor party which might sway future policy promises of other parties (including the majors).
As usual I will post my own thoughts later in the thread so as not to slant the thread's discussion.