Funny how 67%of Australians think Australia should be a world leader in finding solutions to climate change and 66% of Australians think the Australian Government should stop new coal mines but our government does the opposite. It's like maybe our representative democracy isn't that democratic and only representative of the extraction industries.
Who cares what Australians say they "think" when their behaviour suggests the complete opposite? People keep voting for these dogshit major parties because, deep down, they don't actually care as much as they pretend to in anonymous polls and surveys.
Or maybe preferential voting just makes even a protest vote work for the red and blue team? Maybe Compulsory voting makes the 30+% of politically illiterate people swing the whole system towards the main 2 parties? Maybe we only have dogshit parties to vote for because of the significant amount of money required to run a successful campaign?
But no of course it is the fault of individuals for voting for shitty parties... because they have so many other options.