Cheers all round for Andrew Bolt who extracted an apology, however grudging, from the ABC for broadcasting false and defamatory slurs on him! One for the books!

For a hundred years the mainland states have laughed at the Tasmanian Hare-Clark quota-preferential system of voting. With its ‘droop quotas’, its ‘Robson rotations’, its ban on how-to-vote cards, its multi-member electorates and elimination of gerrymanders, it is, the critics say, incomprehensible and makes decisive results almost impossible.