Why it is best to "Vote Below the Line"

In this video I ponder how Australia has come to be so badly mismanaged over the last two years and conclude the core reason rests with the poor quality of people who are elected to office in the Australian Parliament. I also reason that Political Parties have had a role in this and that the only way for Australians to correct this issue is to examine every Candidate closely and to vote on the basis of a person’s merits, not according to the preferences provided by political parties. For this reason, voters should vote below the line. Not only does this give the voter the opportunity to vote for a person, not as per the Party’s preferences, but it also gives them the opportunity to actually make their vote count more by allocating a greater proportion of their vote to a particular group of party.