Yeah I understand the lack of clarity in that statement, and I have no doubt that if he could get away with it he’d get rid of preferential voting in its entirety. But if you look at the context where the LNP has been pointing to the Fitzgerald Inquiry, and the comments by the Brisbane Lord Mayor, and the fact that Australians on the whole are very proud of our preferential voting system, he’s definitely only proposing switching to optional preferential. Which is dangerous enough, considering how effective the LNP’s “just vote 1” campaigns have been at Council elections.
It’s not clear to me that moving to optional is what he means:
This quote suggests to me he wants to get rid of preferences all together.
Yeah I understand the lack of clarity in that statement, and I have no doubt that if he could get away with it he’d get rid of preferential voting in its entirety. But if you look at the context where the LNP has been pointing to the Fitzgerald Inquiry, and the comments by the Brisbane Lord Mayor, and the fact that Australians on the whole are very proud of our preferential voting system, he’s definitely only proposing switching to optional preferential. Which is dangerous enough, considering how effective the LNP’s “just vote 1” campaigns have been at Council elections.