Why the Vic Elections are Corrupted., page-6

Just read an article written by Psephologist & Statistician Dr Adrian Beaumont in The Age.

By his analysis the biggest losers from the Group Voting Ticket manipulation in Victoria's upper house seem to be the Greens and Coalition.
Personally I think it's crazy that a preference whisperer can manipulate the voting outcome then charge a fee that a "party" can recoup from taxpayers by putting him on the staff payroll when they win.
Preference whisperer Druery has worked for Derryn Hinch and is currently employed by Liberal Democrats MP David Limbrick in the Upper House.

Snippets:

Victoria uses eight upper house regions that return five members each, so a quota is one-sixth of the vote, or 16.7 per cent.
In 2018 the Greens won 9.3 per cent of the statewide upper house vote, but just one of 40 seats (2.5 per cent).
There were three occasions where a party won a seat in a region from under 0.1 quotas (1.5 per cent of votes).

Labor has held government in Victoria since the November 2014 state election, under Daniel Andrews.
In the eight years Labor has governed, they have never proposed anything to scrap GVT and move to a more democratic system.
This is a dereliction of Labor’s responsibility to ensure elections are democratic.

At the 2018 election, the upper house result was 18 Labor out of 40, 11 Coalition, one Green, three Derryn Hinch Justice, two Liberal Democrats, and one each for Animal Justice, Sustainable Australia, Transport Matters, Fiona Patten and Shooters, Fishers & Farmers.

As tied votes fail, 21 votes are needed to pass legislation.

Labor and the Greens alone could not pass reforms scrapping GVT through the current upper house, and the crossbenchers who owe their seats to GVT are not interested in reforms.

But at the 2018 election, the Coalition lost three seats that they would have won under a fairer system.The Coalition and Labor still easily have a combined majority in the upper house.
Labor should have made a concrete proposal for reform.
If the Coalition rejected that proposal, then the current situation would be their fault.