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Ben Raue
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Today I’m starting something new with the Tally Room podcast: a three-part history podcast looking at the history of OPV in Australia, rolling out over the next 3 weeks. This first episode looks at early debates on preferential voting and how it worked up to 1951. www.tallyroom.com.au/68638

tallyroom.com.auPodcast #168 – Just Vote 1: The rise of preferential votingIn the first in a three-party election history series about Optional Preferential Voting called ‘Just Vote 1’, Ben explores the rise of preferential voting – how it happened, who …
Ben Raue
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In the next two weeks I will look at the Whitman government’s push for OPV in 1974, and Labor’s cooling enthusiasm for the reform as the flow of preferences reversed. I’ll also look at the “Just Vote 1” campaigning which started around 1999-2001.

Ben Raue
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The main theme of the podcast is pretty much all partisan figures, whatever their principled arguments, took positions that aligned with their partisan self-interest. And when that self-interest changed, their positions changed (albeit sometimes with a bit of a delay).

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Ben Raue
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Today, however, it’s harder to tell who benefits from weaker preference flows and who would be harmed. That will be the last bit of the story, in two weeks time.

Ben Raue
@benraue.com

My conventional podcast format, with guests, will return in late October, with a few episodes planned for Victoria plus a NZ preview.