Here's why the Coalition favours optional preferential voting: it would devastate Labor
- Written by Benjamin Reilly, Professor, University of Western Australia
Could a change be afoot in the way Australians vote in federal elections?
The Coalition government may be eyeing a shift to optional preferential voting — as used in New South Wales — which allows voters to simply vote “1” or allocate only a partial list of preferences on their ballot, instead of a full ordering of...





