Labor-led inquiry calls for end to group voting tickets that have benefited micro parties
The electoral matters committee, chaired by Labor MP Luba Grigorovitch, used its report into the 2022 election to recommend legislation to ditch group voting tickets.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup The committee said this was especially evident at the 2018 election, when the Transport Matters party’s Rod Barton and Sustainable Australia’s Clifford Hayes both won upper house seats with less than 1% of the first-preference votes.
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