...how to vote
It appalled me to realise how ill-informed many Australian seem to be about how our electoral system works. How can can democracy function if the participants don't understand the system? Anyway, it seems the entire campaign is going to be tediously obsessed with preferencing deals. My advice is ignore all of it. Just stick your fingers in your ear and sing "I'm not listening." It's all bullshit. You choose. Spend half an hour googling each candidate in your electorate and decide who you think will be best for you, and who will be worst. I'll always put LNP last and there's plenty of parties I'd preference above Labor, but most of them don't run candidates in my electorate. I think LNP are dangerous and destructive at the moment. They are committing atrocities and robbing people of rights and lying to our faces. They will sell us into slavery if they think it will profit them personally. But Labour are not that much better. They also support committing atrocities in the name of border protection, voted with the Liberals on critical issues and readily indulge in welfare-bashing to pander to the right, Their stance on marriage equality is weak: they'll mandate a vote in 2019. They introduced many of the neoliberal financial ideas - like HECS and subsidies for private health. they keep trying to sell assets and hand services to the private sector. you accept Labor is the best we can do, we are in for bad times ahead. We know exactly what we'll get from the main parties, we've seen it before. If you know they aren't going to be good for you, don't vote for them. Least worst should not be acceptable.