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Also, does he mean moving to optional preferential or going to a FPTP system? Frankly, fuck both ideas but FPTP would be the worst.
He means optional preferential. It's what Queensland council elections use already, and at the time of the elections earlier this year the BCC Lord Mayor made comments about how the Fitzgerald Inquiry had recommended optional preferential and that it was wrong to switch to compulsory. The LNP runs on a very successful "just vote 1" campaign in Council elections, which is one of the reasons they control a 19/27 seat supermajority in BCC (5 Labor, 2 Greens, 1 independent).
I tried finding out why the FI made that recommendation but couldn't find a good answer. I did find other articles that pointed out FI also recommended changes to number of seats & voting system should not be decided by Parliament...and that in 2016 both parties were guilty of breaking that rule—LNP increasing number of seats, Labor switching to compulsory preferential. That turned out to be a fascinating story of powerbroking and political gamesmanship.
It's not clear to me that moving to optional is what he means:
This quote suggests to me he wants to get rid of preferences all together.
The same thing we have for council elections, optional preferential I am pretty sure.
What ever he is trying, looks to me he wants QLD to be like the USA, in more ways than one...