The Victorian Legislative Council (Upper House) in session.
David Limbrick from the Libertarian Party

VICTORIA Labor and the Greens have just given themselves a better chance of winning the state’s Upper House in the coming November election, in which One Nation has emerged as a major player.

Labor and the Greens combined last week to abolish the group voting ticket (GVT) system for the state’s Upper House (Legislative Council) elections and install the regular, Australia-wide system that has worked in favour of the Greens (effectively the Left of the Labor Party) in state and federal elections across the country.

But the GVT system itself was also worked by Labor, the Greens to take control of the Upper House with the support of small leftist parties such as the Animal Justice Party and the Legalise Cannabis Party.

However, with the Electoral Amendment (Miscellaneous Matters) Bill 2026 now law, those parties and the Libertarian MP David Limbrick and the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers MP Jeff Bourman, will be struggling to get in on preference deals.

Bourman and Limbrick should be working with One Nation, given that they have established themselves in the Upper House.

Victoria’s Legislative Council was the only remaining upper house in Australia to use the GVT system, in which voters could only choose one party above the line on the ballot paper, with their preferences then allocated by the party if it was knocked out on first preference votes during counting.

This system meant that in the last decade some 20 candidates were elected with under 6% of the vote – some as low as 1% – who defeated candidates with many more votes because of clever preference deals.

Australian Associated Press, reflecting mainstream opinion, says the GVT system “has long been criticised by experts, including election analyst Antony Green, as they allow backroom deals between parties to flourish and enable some candidates to get elected with a small number of primary votes.”

Indeed, and the Labor Party used it to ensure Greens and small leftist parties exploited the system to the hilt in order to rule with almost unfettered power in Victoria. This will not change under the new system, because the vote-above-the-line system was originally designed to benefit the Greens.

Antony Green says the new system, the one used by state Upper Houses across Australia including for the Senate, will allow voters to control their own preferences, but only if they number all the squares in order of preference.

Cairns News electoral expert Lex Stewart says there is no ideal voting system, but abolishing GVTs will not be the “massive win for democracy” claimed by many including Monica Smit of Reignite Democracy.  “It will make life easier for the Greens,” says Mr Stewart.

“The system that former PM Malcolm Turnbull rammed through the federal parliament in early 2016 to abolish group voting tickets introduced a system for Senate voting that was designed by the Greens, and for years it was advocated by the Greens but by nobody else except leftie Turnbull,” he said.

“Hansard shows that the ALP was vehemently against the new senate system (1 to 6 above the line), because they could see that it would give, and does give, an unfair advantage to the Greens – it is built into the mathematics, of the preference flows, but very few people understand the maths.”

Mr Stewart says the unfair advantage to the Greens happened, for example, in the 2016 election, when the Greens got only 8.7% of the votes, but got 12% of the Senators elected and in the 2019 election, they got 10% of the votes but 15% of the Senators elected.

“And therefore now we are saddled with the enrichment of the number of Greens far beyond their entitlement, and therefore they in effect control the Senate.

“The antidote to this poisonous Senate voting system is to please number every square, putting the Greens last, rather than merely numbering six boxes above the line.”

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  1. More about glyphosate ( Roundup ) and vegetarian Sarah Hanson-Young’s obesity problem.
    They are saying glyphosate is used for dessication ( drying ) of wheat, the perfect mix, glyphosate and gluten in tiny pellets. Your mitochondria stops working properly and you can only process 1000 calories per day into energy instead of the normal 2000. Then you are supposed to inject “Ozempic” or similar which the government is promoting heavily now, on behalf of BigPharma who part-owns them.
    When considering IG Farben, Bayer, Monsanto, therapeutic and agriculture chemicals, they were an integral part of the Nazi regime with slave labour worked half to death in their factories then sent to Auschwitz for extermination. Most of the loot seems to have funnelled down to Swissyland where S HY went to WEF college with uncle Klaus and achieved “Young Global Leader” qualification.
    Coincidentally they say Hitler was also a vegetarian.
    Anyone thinks I am too hard on the Nazis I can also report on the genocidal Zionists. They are trying to settle an island in the Philippines now, which they want to use for R & R inbetween murdering the Semites in the West Bank. The island is called Siargao, it’s abut 10km square and the Philippines seems to have been trying to keep it as a reserve. The Zionists are also starting an enclave in Thailand, this is not far west of Banglamphu Pier in Bangkok. I don’t think they will have much success in Vietnam, the Vietnamese are expert at removing unwanted foreigners. Australia can never achieve this type of nationalism because we are multicultural starting with Irish vs English caste system, not to mention the blackfellas. The Unaparty fiends in Canberra understand this. We are being drowned in ClimatChange™ currently to distract us. The ABC-TV is mostly such appalling rubbish. They never talk about chemtrails dropping accelerant, or professional arsonists.

  2. ps
    from the bot
    “If you’re interested in Monsanto’s history, there’s a particularly interesting story about how Monsanto went from saccharin to PCBs, DDT, 2,4-D, Agent Orange and eventually genetically modified crops.”
    Note Monsanto has a long connection to IG Farben via Bayer. Agent Orange was a mix of 2-4-D and 2-4-5-T.
    bot:
    “Fritz Ter Meer was a senior I.G. Farben executive who was involved in the company’s Auschwitz operations. He was sentenced to seven years for plunder and for mass murder/enslavement. He was released in 1950. Then, astonishingly, in 1956 he became chairman of the supervisory board of Bayer.

  3. I asked the bot why WEF infiltrator Senator Sarah Hanson Young was fat when she was vegetarian and it said she likes to drink gin and do hot yoga. The bot said the APH in Canberra has a 24/7 sauna which must be popular in winter, as well as a 25m pool etc. I got a better theory from the alt-news that glyphosate ( roundup ) interferes with the mitochondria, so some people can get fatter because their mitochondria are starved because they are broken. The normal calories aren’t converted to energy. The story goes that glyphosate ( antibiotic ) is stuck to things like broccoli, which has a large surface area for spray to adhere to. Broccoli was promoted as a super-food about 1990 before the kale scam. The research was done in Johns Hopkins Uni which is near Washington DC so the idea would have quickly got out to Rockerfellas-IG Farben crowd to weaponise broccoli, and W Bush said sometime during his epoch, that he hated broccoli in other words he didn’t want it presented on his plate. The glyphosate interacts with gluten leading to metabolic collapse and your body losing its “cellular identity”. The story goes on that a fetus at 90 days has undergone an energy buildup from where the fetus sex starts to show up but the glyphosate interferes with this, and also contributes to the all the modern epidemics such as autism ADHD Alzheimers Parkinsons MS ALS and other neurological degenerative conditions, cancers such as leukemias, lymphomas, bone marrow things then “solid” cancers such as prostate, breast, colon etc which everyone is scared of these days. So it’s the combination of glyphosate and gluten working its magic.
    Getting back to S HY and her apparent obesity perhaps she should cease and desist from marketing the climate hysteria and instead focus on the poisoning we are getting from IG Farben and co. All we get is more of Rockerfellas hospitals and bigger “health” budgets and we don’t get any clean organic food, everything is contaminated and fat S HY sits there with nothing to say about it.

  4. All this is a smoke screen. The only way to fix our totally corrupt voting system is to get rid of any and ALL preferential voting, first past the post is the only way to make this happen, in line with the intent of our constitution “ONE VOTE, ONE VALUE”. Any form of “preference vote” is counter to this idea and must be removed before we can finally have a fair and honest voting system.

  5. Labor & Greens are known for their unreliability; this one thing for which they can be relied upon.. lying, cheating & deception. Partying in the back rooms now with champagne at our expense… rejoicing over their dishonest accomplishment..😵‍💫

  6. Well if you can’t win honestly then you hafta cheat don’t you.
    You need to game the system and labour are very good at gaming the system…. And cheating.
    You need to branch stack, import your very own voting block that doesn’t even understand the voting system, you need to gerrymander, do shady deals, have other parties designated a “hate group” on trumped up charges, put threats in jail and if all that fails you just change the law to suit yourself.
    Whatever works!
    This coming Vic election is going to be a Masterclass in dirty dealings and Machiavellian shenanigans.

  7. Well folks,
    .
    Does anyone really give a rat’s arse any more? Seriously, does anyone actually give a flying shit?
    .
    We’re dealing with mobs of gangsters, folks, gangs of mobsters, they do what they do because they CAN, because they don’t know anything else, and they NVER back down, they only ever DOUBLE DOWN again and again and again and again and again and again and again and AGAIN.
    .
    We have no say in anything, “voting” in a rigged game run by remorseless mass-murdering foreign-owned sold-out paid-off anti-Australian racketeering ARSEHOLES is just pissing into the wind, the delusional pastime of hapless clueless incurably naive patsies trapped in a haze of reminiscing and glory days now long past.
    .
    They don’t work for us and they don’t answer to us, folks, they’re the COOKS and we’re the MENU, we’re the juicy livestock to be carved up and consumed and disposed of at their leisure and pleasure. After DECADES of this rolling mountain of baby-eating Luciferian racketeering extortionist nation-destroying soul-crushing SHIT, we STILL got people who don’t GET it?
    .
    Ain’t no satisfaction, folks, until we’re all outa bubblegum and the Fat Lady sings, when Mr. Rope and Mr. Lamp Post FINALLY ride into town to set things RIGHT.

  8. Nobody should be forced to preference candidates they don’t want

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