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Australia uses a highly proportional electoral process for its lower house.

The constitution requires that electorates be apportioned among the states in proportion to their respective populations; provided that each original state has at least 5 members in the House of Representatives.

Districts are decided and managed by a politically independent federal commission (ie: not by politicians).

The Australian senate is still a state house modelled in the US fashion. And is therefore not proportional to the population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divisions_of_the_Australian_Ho...




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