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This chapter examines the characteristics of Australia’s political and social development that enabled compulsory voting to take such tenacious root and come to enjoy relatively uncontroversial support in this country. Compulsory voting in Australia is best understood in the context of a majoritarian and bureaucratic political culture that had its genesis in the colonial era of the nineteenth century, in a propensity to experimentation in electoral matters, and in the desire to ensure that the votes of moderate, respectable citizens would balance those of radical partisans. |
