I don't know much about politics and I confess to knowing little of the politics of other countries. Australia has a British Parliamentary System and it seems to work reasonably well most of the time. It is said that we don't elect our Prime Minister as the U.S. elects its President, but by the time the election is underway everybody knows who will be the Prime Minister depending which side of the two major parties wins.
We don't have a first past the post system; preferential voting is used here. Check out Preferential Voting if that interests you.
There are two major political parties and a few minor parties and a handful of independents. The current government is able to govern only with the support of a few independents and a minority party who have pledged their support by demanding trade offs with their own agendas.
One thing you will never see in Australian politics is a bi-partisan gesture as done by Barack Obama the U.S. President, when after his election, he appointed four opposition party members (Republicans) to cabinet posts in his government.
Australia is a big place and we have a population of only around 22,000,000 and that doesn't count the 50,000 illegals here.
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Kev, I hope people realize that Australia is one enormous desert with with small pockets of land where trees and crops can sustain a small population.. It might be able to fit Germany Spain, Poland , Great Britain. New Zealand and a few other countries in it but with a terrible shortage of water and land that will produce food , I don't know if we can sustain a large population. Global warming and rising seas are a worry. Marg
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