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In this internet age when it is so easy to provide extensive detail, plans, costings, background sources and really any supporting documentation why is serious policy debate so rare?
Much of the destructive force of politics comes from a belief that these ideals of freedom and fairness, because they are often in conflict, are incompatible.
In politics as it has been practiced the compromises that are made depend crucially on the political strategies of power-players, and only indirectly on the merits of the case.
Unsurprisingly and achingly predictably the Right opposed the seating arrangement because they believed that deputies should support private or general interests but should not form factions or political parties.
At the core of the reform is the idea that senate seats should reflect voters' intentions in the most accurate way possible and reduce voter confusion.
