Election reform in Western Australia
Sep. 17th, 2021 09:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pedantherI was in the servo yesterday grabbing a bite when my eye was caught by the front page of the local paper, done up in black and announcing the Death of Regional Representation.
Wow, I thought, that's a bit dramatic, even by their usual standards for talking about whether the state government is paying enough attention to the regions.
It comes about that the government has announced its proposals for overhauling upper house elections in the state. This has been in the works for a while, but in the event some of the proposed changes go further than a lot of people were expecting.
Here's election analyst Antony Green on the proposed changes: what's going to change, why these changes, and which parts he thinks are good or bad.
(I still think the local paper was being a drama llama about it, but now I can understand the impulse.)
Wow, I thought, that's a bit dramatic, even by their usual standards for talking about whether the state government is paying enough attention to the regions.
It comes about that the government has announced its proposals for overhauling upper house elections in the state. This has been in the works for a while, but in the event some of the proposed changes go further than a lot of people were expecting.
Here's election analyst Antony Green on the proposed changes: what's going to change, why these changes, and which parts he thinks are good or bad.
(I still think the local paper was being a drama llama about it, but now I can understand the impulse.)
