This is quite simply untrue. There is no requirement to live in an electorate to represent that electorate in Parliament, and in fact in the past it was very c

This is quite simply untrue. There is no requirement to live in an electorate to represent that electorate in Parliament, and in fact in the past it was very common for country electorates to be represented by city politicians. Antony Green has a great post debunking this myth: http://blogs.abc.net.au/antonygreen/2012/02/local-seats-for-local-people-who-should-be-allowed-to-contest-elections.html http://blogs.abc.net.au/antonygreen/2012/02/local-seats-for-... (and Senators don't even represent electorates).