Day 32 cont

Take care #voting, make your #Preferences count.

“Preferences have become more important than ever in Australian elections, as the share of people supporting the major parties has dropped from more than 90% of primary votes in the 1950s to just 68.8% in the most recent federal poll.

The last Australian election saw 16 seats won by candidates who were not leading after the first count – the most ever, tied with 2016. And more than half of those winners were independent candidates – also the most ever.

Australia’s electoral system requires #voters to #number #candidates in their order of preference: their first choice, second choice and so on. During #counting, if no candidate has yet achieved a #majority, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated and their votes are redistributed to voters’ next #preference. This is repeated until there is a clear winner.”

#AusPol <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/datablog/2025/may/01/how-do-preferences-work-voting-party-australia-federal-election-liberal-greens-labor>

"War deaths from malnutrition and a damaged health system and environment likely far outnumber deaths from combat."

"An estimated 3.6-3.8 million people have died indirectly in US war zones since 2001, bringing the total death toll to at least 4.5-4.7 million and counting."

at Brown University: https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians

During 1990–2017, #wars contributed about 29 million civilian #deaths on the planet, not #counting killing: https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-020-01708-5