[Jedd]

Did you note the context of my message?

Parent had said that only the presidential elections need to be single-winner.

In Australia the head of government is the Prime Minister - curiously the specifics of that role are absent from our constitution, as it was evidently assumed to be a given. Head of State remains the reigning monarch of the Commonwealth, but that's a slight aside.

Prime Minister is not elected by the gen pop, despite many citizens of AU believing it to be the case. The 150 elected representatives in the parliament actually choose amongst them who the Prime Minister shall be -- a potentially very civilised approach to leadership elections.

Anyway, I'm not sure that I can defend myself against your claims about my personal observations.

Perhaps you could give it a go, and see if you get the same trends of responses that I described.