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The Parties can make their own rules about how they select leaders, policies, make decisions or whatever, if you are not a member of that party then the way they do things is not really something you can change. In UK politics, the leadership would decide how they wanted their MP's to vote, and...

You can not turn up to vote and pay twenty bucks, or argue why you shouldn't have to in court instead, or you can abstain, but you have to turn up, or return your postal ballot unmarked. But if you have to do that, you might as well have a think about it and pick the least offensive party or...

You can abstain, you just have to turn up to do so. I am not fully across the Aussie system, but I take it that your vote is private, and a politicians vote in parliament is public, and that most would agree that this difference is sensible, so a difference in the two is not necessarily a good...

How is allowing only a fraction of the people to vote more democratic than encouraging all the people to vote?

Which part of democracy is relevant to people that don't vote? Either vote and take part in democracy, or don't and pay your fine, but I can't work out how voting is undemocratic, and that not voting is? Start a political party with a policy of removing the compulsion to vote, you will get all...

There are many things you have to do, with a fine as a consequence of not complying. I believe the fine for not voting is $20, just over £10, compare that to not parking within the lines, not buying a TV Licence, not paying Road Tax or registering the car as off the road, not sending your kids...