I’m wanting to see more well-rounded policy that can be supported by the major parties regardless of ‘who floated it’, hoping for better enduring government rather than this ‘rip and replace’ bullshit.
Obviously with the right wong think tanks invading, this is nothing more than a thought exercise, but i reckon its worth exploring.
My heretical angle is significantly reducing thenterms that parties have in power - not extending to 4 years but instead reducing to 1 or 18 months. The thinking being: If you cant get anything done because the only work one is interested in doing is ideological nonsense that caters to a narrow part of society maybe it shouldn’t get off the ground in the first place?
If we ditch the 5% threshold, the lowest you can go is the “natural” threshold. If we stuck with a 120 seat house that is ~0.83%.
You then either ignore the votes that were for parties below the threshold; or change the voting system to STV or similar.
I would be in favor of dropping the 5% to say 2-2.5% and bringing in some form of ranked choice, along with lowering the voting age. All this with upping (significantly) the civics education in schools, to get more people voting.