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It's a rare occurrence, but once in a blue moon, voters do the right thing.
My hometown: Labor to win re-election in ACT with support of Greens. This would be Labor's fourth consecutive term in office in Canberra.
New Zealand: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's Labour Party wins general election (in an absolute landslide).
Proportional representation and/or compulsory voting. Who'd have thought that they generally produce more satisfactory electoral results? /sarcasm
Meanwhile, in my other other hometown, we've got the type of squalid corruption scandal for which New South Wales is sadly all too infamous. It's got everything: secret affairs, stacks of cash being handed over in Aldi plastic bags, people being found unexpectedly dead in swimming pools... And, New South Wales being New South Wales, the whole thing was only illegal because the MP in question didn't declare what he was doing! Accepting cash in exchange for favours: completely legal in NSW, as long it's made public. It honestly makes you despair.
The less said about politics in my current home country, the better...
My hometown: Labor to win re-election in ACT with support of Greens. This would be Labor's fourth consecutive term in office in Canberra.
New Zealand: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's Labour Party wins general election (in an absolute landslide).
Proportional representation and/or compulsory voting. Who'd have thought that they generally produce more satisfactory electoral results? /sarcasm
Meanwhile, in my other other hometown, we've got the type of squalid corruption scandal for which New South Wales is sadly all too infamous. It's got everything: secret affairs, stacks of cash being handed over in Aldi plastic bags, people being found unexpectedly dead in swimming pools... And, New South Wales being New South Wales, the whole thing was only illegal because the MP in question didn't declare what he was doing! Accepting cash in exchange for favours: completely legal in NSW, as long it's made public. It honestly makes you despair.
The less said about politics in my current home country, the better...