Andrew P. Street > Quotes

“From 1984 until 2016 the Senate ballot paper worked on a group voting ticket basis: either you voted for one party above the line, or you laboriously numbered every single individual candidate in order of preference. Since this typically involved ranking between sixty and a hundred-plus boxes for people of whom even the most ardent upper house enthusiast had never heard, only a tiny fraction of the voting population bothered to do so—less than 3 per cent in the 2013 election—typically because they bore a particular grudge against a specific party or candidate and were willing to sacrifice quarter of an hour of box-numbering simply to experience the righteous thrill of putting their political nemesis last.”
― Andrew P. Street, The Curious Story of Malcolm Turnbull, the Incredible Shrinking Man in the Top Hat

“Maybe—just maybe—going through the small-minded, scared, angry, petty Abbott era is the antidote we needed to combat the slow poison of decades of public apathy about politics.”
― Andrew P Street, The Short and Excruciatingly Embarrassing Reign of Captain Abbott