Pietro is joined by Rick Westgarth, Federal Campaign manager for the Libertarian Party, with more than 20 years' experience in campaigning in elections in Australia. They discuss many of the things wrong with elections in Australia: from compulsory voting (and the harms it creates), to tax-payer election funding, to the ways the major parties (Liberal and Labor) manipulate legislation and regulations to choke out minor parties, and much more.

They also talk about how the media is used by major parties, and how disingenuous politics can be, especially when it comes to preferences, group voting tickets, and back-room deals between big party players. Overall, an in-depth discussion about how democracy really works in Australia, and how the average person can start to fix this rotten system.

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