Australian democracy is globally unique, with an emphasis on fairness. This episode explores how we arrived at a fairer way to vote, like our invention of the secret ballot.

Australia is among about 13% of democracies enforcing compulsory voting, maintaining turnout near 90% even as global rates decline. This episode deep dives into compulsory voting.

This episode explores preferential voting. Vaunted by mathematicians and theorists as a fairer way of voting, this system was adopted uniquely, by Australia in 1918.