User blog comment:Commdor/BioWare Releases ME2 Statistics/@comment-1691295-20100907050421/@comment-1900300-20100907064305

@Spart. Technically we do have only two parties in Australia. Liberal (centre-right, but tough to say) and labor (centre-left officially, but again tough). The rest are filler like in America (independents, greens). In this case the election was close because both parties were uninspired and did little to outline their objectives to the public. In the end the independents got so many votes three members had to support one of the parties. Labor got the support of two, so their in charge. Besides, if you get too many parties then it gets to unstable as leaderships and members and political prerogatives change among the parties.