Labor’s day: Australia’s election
The Intelligence from The Economist
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Climate Change and the Australian Elections?
The general feeling is that compulsory voting keeps things relatively kind of sensible and centris. Political leaders don't have to resort to dog whistles or more extremes to rally a base who might not otherwise turn up. So it's a system, i think, that served australia very well. The general feeling among political scientists is it would not be applied in countries like britain or america.
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