Thank you for this information. It got me back to Wikipedia to get a better feel for the Australian electoral structures.

Actually I recall doing this research about 10 years ago, but not much seemed to have stuck.

I was amazed (again) that Australia managed to create a system that was different than Westminster. We Canadians adopted the UK model in 1867, both at the federal and provincial levels. Not much has really changed since then.

If we look at the social/political result, Canada is more like the social democracies of the Nordic countries than our neighbor to the south. This is despite Canada's antiquated system. There is an argument that the system is really not as important as we think it is. A democracy where the governors govern at the pleasure of the people seems to be the most important feature.

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The reason for "not much has stuck" is that I'm in a different line of political thinking. We need to remove all the political parties from governance. So I'm not going to promote the Australian way as a good example.

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The role of the media probably has a more important social/political impact than the electoral structure.

The system I am proposing should take a lot of influence away from the media. Maybe I should write a Medium article on this.