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And minor parties receive funding from the Australian Electoral Commission if they receive over certain percentage of votes.

It was 5% last time I cared to be informed by may be different now, and they would receive $x for each vote, or what ever it is now.

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Also, there is nothing centre-right about Susan Ley.

She is the leftest left leaning leader of the Liberal party I’ve ever had the misfortune of having to live through.

She was absolutely on board with this recent Hitlerian “anti-hate” legislation that was rammed through with no public consultation.

Okay, that’s a bit uncharitable. We had 48 hours.

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And the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security definitely gave the literal thousands of submissions due consultation before recommending the original, un-split bill pass.
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