Another reform to the election system needed

Comments on Mumble Blog “Who won the national vote?” 24/08/2010, http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/mumble/index.php/theaustralian/comments/who_won_the_national_vote/
While the current system is as what you described, it may not be necessarily fair.

Leaving the current election aside, there is a case to reform the voting system to make it fairer.

One option may be to discount the second and third preferences to give them lower weights than the primary votes.

Such a system may combine the advantages of different voting systems.

But that reform should be done when there are no direct and immediate implications for the outcome of an election, or the implications are unpredictable.