JONNY STEINBERG | Why electoral reform doesn’t get my vote
Ditch proportional representation and what has happened in Eldorado Park could well occur on a national scale
03 June 2021 - 20:18
The debate about prospective electoral reform is charged with a sense of excitement that I think is misplaced. It sounds at times like talk of a daily tablet that will cure cancer or a cheap machine that will end climate change, a piece of wishful thinking obscuring what’s at stake...
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