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Lying awake at night, I read this tweet by @TonyHWindsor, encouraging someone to “learn what our Constitution says and how Governments are formed”. As a citizen of Australia, I suffered sudden shame of never having done that myself. So I did and here's an #auspolVote2022 thread🧵
The context here is the upcoming Australian election and the participation of high-profile Independent candidates, not associated with a political party. That’s not new; there were Independents elected to the House of Reps in the first parliament of 1901. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1901_Aust…
But this year, some people are concerned with the prospect that no major political party (or established coalition of parties) may have enough members elected to form a majority in the House of Reps, leading to ‘minority government’ or a ‘hung parliament’. smh.com.au/politics/feder…
