Electoral Reform

Electoral

• Maintain Compulsory Preferential Voting in the House of Assembly (Lower House). Reintroduce CPV in the Legislative Council (Upper House). This ensures every vote counts in the later quota counts for each seat.
• Reduce the lower house seats by 2 and change it to 15 electoral districts each represented by 3 members. SA has an unfair electoral system where parties have sometimes achieved 53% 2PP and still lost because the votes were in "the wrong electorate". At the last SA State Election, minor parties achieved a 29.2% primary vote yet only 3 independents were elected out of 47 seats (6.4% of seats). Multi-member constituencies in the lower house should help resolve the clear unfairness of these results by providing a more accurate parliamentary representation of the state-wide primary vote.
• Restore the ICAC powers to investigate MPs, police and public servants for all forms of corruption and serious maladministration.
  
• South Australia’s ICAC hearings should be made public to improve transparency.