compulsory-voting
Queensland was the first state in Australia to introduce compulsory voting. It did so in 1915 and nine years later, Western Australian Nationalist Party MP Edward Mann introduced the bill to expand compulsory voting across Australia.
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In this country, unlike in America, we do not worship our constitution. Whereas the US constitution proclaims a government by "We the people, in Australia, we more prosaically note that "The House of Representatives shall be composed of members directly chosen by the people of the Commonwealth.
It's worth emphasising that it says "directly chosen by the people. It doesn't say "chosen by half of the
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