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Re: [ProgSoc] Have you registered to vote yet?



* Nathan de Vries <nathan@xxxxxxxxx> [2007-10-12 14:05]:
> On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 09:55 +1000, Nathan de Vries wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 14:39 +1000, victor rajewski wrote:
> > > It certainly would seem strange to see the Labor and Liberal parties
> > > merge/form a coalition, but it really doesn't seem too far away.
> > 
> > Really? I would have said that bipartisan support within parliament was
> > dwindling. Party interests seem to get far more attention than
> > Australia's interests, and I can't see that changing any time soon.
> 
> After making that statement, I did a little digging to try and find a
> year-by-year breakdown of "crossing the floor" occurrences. I've put the
> data I found on Swivel [1], if anyone's interested.

Another relevant examination could be how many bills going through
parliament actually result in a division.  I was given to understand
that upwards of 90% of legislation is passed with bi-partisan support,
which puts a different complexion on how adversarial the parliament
actually is.  I'd like to see numbers for this though.


-- 
Matthew Beauregard 
Casual Academic
Faculty of Information Technology, UTS
http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~mbeaureg

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