Maybe there is a valid argument in weighting the value of the vote in regional areas Maybe those areas need the protection favour of having more members Often the complaints heard are that all the resources and infrastructure go into Adelaide and the suburbs maybe we need to make the country vote more valuable Similar to the Australian Senate each state has the same number of Senators so that the Eastern states to not control the decision making In such as centralised political environment maybe a similar imbalance is required The problem is historically this was done extremely poorly with the balance way too far towards the regions making the metro areas almost irrelevant which seems to cloud debate into this concept that 1 vote 1 value is somehow the ultimate democracy The issue is that if politicians govern only for the majority then the disadvantaged minorities get left behind Why build access ramps provide translation services etc The majority don t need them so there are minimal votes in it Why build new infrastructure in rural communities that s not where the votes are There is a social justice element to this the regions in South Australia do tend to get neglected