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I don't agree Australia has "ranked choice" and we have two big parties dominant. It's not a FPTP, it's voters.
Paraphrasing Susan Sontag, 10% of voters are good, 10% evil and 80% can be swayed either way, of that 80% many of us are stupid (in the Cippola sense).
Ranked choice is basically FPTP with simulated rounds. It's not much better than FPTP. Switching from one bad voting system to a marginally better one isn't going to fix things.