If you don’t fill in all the boxes for the House of Representatives ballot paper, you’ve voted informally and wasted your vote.
If you let your vote exhaust for the Senate ballot paper, you signal that you don’t have an opinion on who should get elected once your selected candidates have been eliminated, which basically amounts to throwing your vote away if your preferences haven’t already contributed to electing someone.
I’m voting Greens and any leftist minor party.
I’m not voting Lib, Lab, or any other rightist party.
As major parties go, Lab are only okay compared to Lib. They’re thoroughly shit when compared to our better options.
At no point is my vote thrown away.
If you don’t fill in all the boxes for the House of Representatives ballot paper, you’ve voted informally and wasted your vote.
If you let your vote exhaust for the Senate ballot paper, you signal that you don’t have an opinion on who should get elected once your selected candidates have been eliminated, which basically amounts to throwing your vote away if your preferences haven’t already contributed to electing someone.