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> In Australia, the average person in the street might think that the way that you get into the Prime Minister’s office is by being elected by the people. Since
by hydrox24 9y ago
> In Australia, the average person in the street might think that the way that you get into the Prime Minister’s office is by being elected by the people. Since 1966, this has only been true about 40% of the time.
Well not only are they wrong. Matt Barrie (the author) is wrong too. No Prime Minister has ever been elected by the people. All of them have been elected by their party room. Australia elects Representatives and Parties. Mr. Barrie seems to be wading into topics that he doesn't have the chops for...
- Feniks 9y agoHa yeah. That's highschool level of knowledge, at least in my country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_system
- sdwisely 9y agoscrewed my face up at this, I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and and assume he chose his words poorly and meant that 6 were not the party leader at the time of the election. It's a shame because there is some interesting opinions in this that wind off into almost stream of consciousness. If he had stuck to making his point with data and scrapped the anecdotes it would have made it an easier read. It really need an editor and fact checking.