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With all due respect, I believe that you have it backwards. For all its faults, Australia's voting system means that the winner of a constituency vote was preferred by more voters to the one that finished second, and was almost certainly preferred to all the others. In Britain, with its first-past-the-post system, a split vote can put in a candidate who is less liked than either of the candidates who finished 2nd and 3rd. And that really has happened quite a few times. If you want to see how disastrous proportional representation really is, look at NZ. Australia's system is still constituency-focussed, thank goodness.

Then perhaps you could explain to me how it is so good for coal in Britain that they have elected a prime minister promising to be the greenest ever and that Britain will be "carbon neutral" by 2035. Contrast that with Australia where the government - although apparently just as duped or bullied by the climate science fraud - has at least come up with some less damaging policies (still extremely awful, but nothing like as bad).