Another cute touch is that where there are on;y 2 major parties, bribery by Business is pretty easy. When there are many more smaller parties, it becomes uneconomic to spend the money spread across all the candidates, as the major parties may easily piss off enough of a segment to create a situation similar to what happened in Australia. By being pig headly unshiftable (gaining a reputation as a 'destroyer', not a 'builder'), Abbot caused liberal/national disaffected voters to move to a party/independent candidate who was NOT Labor - so the 'coalition' became Labor with a handful of independents, which is causing the Lib/nats to be exposed as just a bunch of closed minded bile spewing irrelevant idiots.