I've been to Australia a couple times and I have some friends of friends from Australia but we never really dove into the election system.
I had to confirm that vegan sausages are available before I endorsed the "Democracy Sausages" (they are in places) 
I'm trying to weigh the concern about voter disengagement due to compulsory voting versus a small minority (us & the Trump flag truckers) getting all fired up and trying to drag people to the polls, knock on doors, spend lots of money, etc.....all the while a large percentage of Americans couldn't give a shit / don't know shit.
I was hoping ranked choice voting would take out Susan Collins. It didn't seem to work there so still not sure about its effectiveness.
And no political parties might be a good thing. Either that or more real viable parties, since not everyone agrees on all issues, even within parties. Just having two makes people make hard hard choices.
This is all in an ideal world of course; we would do well to just eliminate voter suppression, gerrymandering, and foreign interference. We could also use a healthy dose of campaign finance reform.
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