Fusion Party - a grassroots movement with big ideas 🌱🔮
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Fusion Party - a grassroots movement with big ideas 🌱🔮
The Fusion Party strives for a free, fair, and innovative society for current and future generations, with meaningful work to meet the critical social and ecological challenges of our times.
Fusion's approach is to empower communities and to foster deliberative democracy across our society.
A grassroots movement
with
big ideas
Values
Personal Liberty
Advancement
Ecological Harmony
Safety
Ethical Conduct
Equity
People like you
That's who can change the future − voters who want what's best for Australia, and are prepared to take action.
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Fusion candidates are regular guests on the
My First Party
podcast
Events
House of Representatives
Ballot Paper
Victoria
Electoral Division of Dunkley
Number the boxes from 1 to 8 in the order of your choice
How voting for a
minor
party
maximises
your
vote
Preferential voting allows society to compromise and choose someone who is the
least
hated
.
There are other systems of voting − imagine if each of us could only choose
one party
from the list. Then we run the risk of choosing
someone unpopular, and missing out on having our
say about the final two candidates.
That's the way it is in the US, and they get locked into having two parties whose supporters
inevitably
grow to hate each other.
It's good to have more parties
: it allows more ideas to be be pitched 💡💫
In preferential voting, we get to have lots of parties − if you happen to vote for a party who ends up coming last, it doesn't matter; your vote gets reassigned to whoever
you
wrote as number 2. Then the next party gets eliminated, and the votes get reassigned again, as
we
see
in the Sankey diagram above.
At each step, the votes still add up to 100 − anyone who voted yellow doesn't suddenly have
their vote go missing.
Notice that if you want a say in the
final showdown
(the last two parties), then whether
you put them
as
your first two preferences or your last two, it still has the same effect. 📊
So even if you want Liberal or Labor to win, if you actually put them first,
you're
missing
out on fully having your say
. Even the most rusted-on Liberal and Labor supporters would
admit that they might like to change a policy
here and there; maybe add something that's missing. The parties themselves change their policies
every
few years,
so would it be a
sin
to be one step ahead of them, asking for a change?
By voting for a minor party first and a major party later, you're able to convey "
sure, this
is
the major party I prefer.
But I wish they'd legalise cannabis
. I wish they'd give some
more justice to
animals. I wish they'd put more effort into ensuring Australia is a place for big ideas and not
just
a place to dig things out of the ground.
" 🔬
As more people switch to newer parties, everyone else sees the increase in votes, and they
become
more likely to vote for these parties themselves, in a virtuous cycle.
It has to start
somewhere
; and if you choose to be ahead of the pack, you'll be making your future self
proud. 🔮
Let's stop and actually
reverse
global
heating
Fusion is a signatory to the
Climate Rescue Accord
− a
joint effort across multiple parties to
reduce
emissions to near zero across all sectors;
to
remove
excess CO
2
from the air; and to
reflect
enough radiation to cool the climate to safe levels.
Policies
Bold ideas for a modern Australia
See more
Climate Rescue
Future Focused
Education for life
Ethical Governance
Drug Legalisation
Fair + Inclusive Society
Individual Freedoms
Universal Basic Income
Ecological Restoration
Civil + Digital Liberties
Secular Humanism
Fair Foreign Policy
Anti-Ageing
Nuclear Power
The Fusion Party strives for a free, fair, and innovative society for current and future generations, with meaningful work to meet the critical social and ecological challenges of our times.
Fusion's approach is to empower communities and to foster deliberative democracy across our society.
A grassroots movement
with
big ideas
Values
Personal Liberty
Advancement
Ecological Harmony
Safety
Ethical Conduct
Equity
People like you
That's who can change the future − voters who want what's best for Australia, and are prepared to take action.
Donate $25
Donate $50
Custom
Stay in the Loop
We will only use this information to send you newsletters and campaign
updates.
Your browser must not support the video tag.
Tune in!
Fusion candidates are regular guests on the
My First Party
podcast
Events
House of Representatives
Ballot Paper
Victoria
Electoral Division of Dunkley
Number the boxes from 1 to 8 in the order of your choice
How voting for a
minor
party
maximises
your
vote
Preferential voting allows society to compromise and choose someone who is the
least
hated
.
There are other systems of voting − imagine if each of us could only choose
one party
from the list. Then we run the risk of choosing
someone unpopular, and missing out on having our
say about the final two candidates.
That's the way it is in the US, and they get locked into having two parties whose supporters
inevitably
grow to hate each other.
It's good to have more parties
: it allows more ideas to be be pitched 💡💫
In preferential voting, we get to have lots of parties − if you happen to vote for a party who ends up coming last, it doesn't matter; your vote gets reassigned to whoever
you
wrote as number 2. Then the next party gets eliminated, and the votes get reassigned again, as
we
see
in the Sankey diagram above.
At each step, the votes still add up to 100 − anyone who voted yellow doesn't suddenly have
their vote go missing.
Notice that if you want a say in the
final showdown
(the last two parties), then whether
you put them
as
your first two preferences or your last two, it still has the same effect. 📊
So even if you want Liberal or Labor to win, if you actually put them first,
you're
missing
out on fully having your say
. Even the most rusted-on Liberal and Labor supporters would
admit that they might like to change a policy
here and there; maybe add something that's missing. The parties themselves change their policies
every
few years,
so would it be a
sin
to be one step ahead of them, asking for a change?
By voting for a minor party first and a major party later, you're able to convey "
sure, this
is
the major party I prefer.
But I wish they'd legalise cannabis
. I wish they'd give some
more justice to
animals. I wish they'd put more effort into ensuring Australia is a place for big ideas and not
just
a place to dig things out of the ground.
" 🔬
As more people switch to newer parties, everyone else sees the increase in votes, and they
become
more likely to vote for these parties themselves, in a virtuous cycle.
It has to start
somewhere
; and if you choose to be ahead of the pack, you'll be making your future self
proud. 🔮
Let's stop and actually
reverse
global
heating
Fusion is a signatory to the
Climate Rescue Accord
− a
joint effort across multiple parties to
reduce
emissions to near zero across all sectors;
to
remove
excess CO
2
from the air; and to
reflect
enough radiation to cool the climate to safe levels.
Policies
Bold ideas for a modern Australia
See more
Climate Rescue
Future Focused
Education for life
Ethical Governance
Drug Legalisation
Fair + Inclusive Society
Individual Freedoms
Universal Basic Income
Ecological Restoration
Civil + Digital Liberties
Secular Humanism
Fair Foreign Policy
Anti-Ageing
Nuclear Power