Political parties elected with help from Glenn Druery were allegedly asked to vote against reforms to Victoria’s group voting system.
Political parties elected with help from “preference whisperer” Glenn Druery were asked to vote against reforms to Victoria’s contentious group voting system in return for his support, a parliamentary inquiry has heard.
Druery has risen to fame over the past decade for his work across Australian jurisdictions setting up an alliance of minor parties who direct their preferences towards each other and boost their chances of success. In some cases, this allowed candidates who received less than 1 per cent of the primary vote to be elected into parliament. Victoria is the last state to use this system.
Burson said the pair had also made a complaint to the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission that included their video, but that this had later been referred to the Victorian Electoral Commission after it appeared it would not be investigated. “I’ve been working with minor parties now for 25 years with the main goal of developing trust and integrity,” he said.
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