{"id":42815,"date":"2025-11-09T11:40:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T16:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=42815"},"modified":"2025-11-09T11:40:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T16:40:23","slug":"the-story-behind-australias-incredible-democratic-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=42815","title":{"rendered":"The story behind Australia&#8217;s incredible democratic system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au\/f89c8c3914896206aed1c2cb7558b3bb?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&amp;cropH=2713&amp;cropW=4070&amp;xPos=358&amp;yPos=242&amp;width=862&amp;height=575\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"193\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Behind the quirks of Australia&#8217;s incredible democratic system are a series of complex human backstories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-11-09\/civic-duty-compulsory-preferential-voting-rules-aec-secret\/105969502\">The story behind Australia&#8217;s incredible democratic system<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>long, but interesting.  bingo balls, crayons, cruise ship voting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behind the quirks of Australia&#8217;s incredible democratic system are a series of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[480,1795],"class_list":["post-42815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-australia","tag-democracy","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42817,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42815\/revisions\/42817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}