Yeah I thought the rationale may have been connected to local history and knowledge, just didn’t know what exactly

I’m so grateful for our Senate, they have stopped some awful things being passed. That said, it’s let us down a couple times as well.

Unfortunately one huge weakness we have here is one of the majors, the Labor Party, makes decisions in their caucus on bills and not the floor, which means quite often their Senators are voting against their personal will or abstaining. While its upside means they have unity as a party, its downside is that party doesn’t always have our interests at heart.