@Farm
That senator is well known and hated by 99.9999% of Australians? We got a fucked up electoral system, do you know how many votes he got to become a senator? 19 votes, yes, if you exclude him for voting for himself, only 18 people voted for him and he became a senator.
19 people got this bloke a $200k job
SOMETHING is seriously wrong with our electoral system if someone can be a senator with only a handful of votes.
A BLOKE who got just 19 votes in a Federal election still managed to get his bum on a Senate seat. That he’s been given a platform and a $200,000 salary, shows our voting system is broken.
In his offensive and dangerous maiden speech, Senator Fraser Anning said “the final solution to the immigration problem of course is a popular vote”.
As if the call for ending Muslim immigration isn’t sufficiently divisive of itself, the use of the term “final solution” is sickening. The “Final Solution” was the appalling euphemism used by Nazis in World War II, to refer to their plan for the genocide of the Jewish people, which would see millions killed.
Not withstanding his insult to the Holocaust, his obsession with a “popular vote” is absurd. We’re being lectured to by someone whose last experience with a popular vote was winning just 19 of them.
Fewer than two dozen Aussies thought enough of the bloke to make him their number one pick. There’s a decent chance Senator Anning may have voted for himself, so you could perhaps make it 18.
https://www.news.com.au/national/po...b/news-story/f8d8aaa83f0c2bcab53626455a3698d6
This whole time I thought the country was run by a guy.
