All voting systems are subject to gaming. Preferential systems are primarily subject to "Least Favourite Candidate Loses". The Labor party may have lost votes but they were preferred over the Coalition by a considerable margin.

> Here's hoping if they break their promise on income tax they'll be tossed soon enough.

The economic realities suggest this promise should be dropped. This does not hurt Labor's voters terribly, and does not impact the more left-leaning voters much at all. I expect this will be dropped and this will not hurt Labor at all, but will build them a reputation as economic pragmatists.

Personally I will be impacted by a "Stage 3" cut and yet I hope they are dropped. Even in this political climate, and with a mortgage to pay, I don't really see that this tax cut will help me more than a functioning public health system. Or help the country, as a whole, better than an actual welfare system.

Here's hoping the Coalition will continue their rightward march and another, actually conservative, party will grow from the wreck of the Teals and blue-ribbon seats they Libs lost.