And I always say that Maltese and Australian Senate ‘STV’ come with huge caveats. In Malta, the party with a majority of first-preference votes nationwide is guaranteed a majority of seats. (It is an almost perfect 2-party system.) Of course, that undermines one of the key advantages of STV: that you supposedly need not worry about wasting your vote on an unelectable candidate or party.

And in Australian Senate, “above the line” voting is practiced by over 90% of voters, which essentially converts ‘STV’ into closed-list PR, undermining one of the other supposed advantages of STV: that candidates compete for support and voters decide how their preferences flow if their first-choice is unelectable.

OZ influence was felt in Fiji on this point: the AV system adopted there allows above-the-line voting. It was pretty much a disaster.