Political parties or crime syndicates were never mentioned in the Constitution to be able to be voted for instead of individual candidates and so I'm very please with the following developments:
Veteran psephologist Malcolm Mackerras said
he was confident of a speedy High Court challenge.
He told the ABC that he would do everything he could "to help that challenge so that the High Court can strike this thing down as being unconstitutional".
"The words 'directly chosen by the people' appearing in Section 7 and in Section 24 [of the constitution], in my opinion, commands that the electoral systems must be candidate-based," he said.
"Now, what this thing does is to introduce a party list system. What I cannot stomach is the idea of the Liberal Party suddenly deciding to abandon the democratic values of the Australian constitution and suddenly deciding to embrace Greens principles, purely because it will help them to engineer the double dissolution they want and to get rid of the crossbench senators whom they dislike."