I don't understand how any of this works.

1. yes!

2. set by the electoral commission. gerrymandering and malapportionment not such a problem nowadays, not like say queensland in sir joh's reign - now there's a prick who could represent the country on the world stage if there was a corruption olympics.

3. strictly speaking, you vote for individual candidates in the house of reps. you can put liberal footballer at 2 on the ballot after labor if you like. the senate is more on your 'voting for a party' tip.

haitch has got dis covered

also all the awesome football players from back in the day were running for the PALMER UNITED PARTY

if you require an explanation for the PALMER UNITED PARTY by the way here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/v/NuVgMLNhFuc&fs=1&hl=en

that's more of a justification, imo

what happens is that australia has a democratic process, and then rupert murdoch (american) decides who will run the country, and then people sip their lightly chilled chardonnay and click their tongues and say 'oh yes what a valuable democratic process'

and now we have a ministry of _________, a ministry of ____________ and a ministry for blokes

clive palmer is rite, the military is ~stealing ballots~

how clive palmer ever got $5, let alone $1 billion, is a mystery to me