There's three types of voters in the bush, the rusted-on ones who have favorite parties and would travel to the Moon to vote for them. Then there's ones who think two party democracy is better than the old Soviet Union and would travel the same distance to vote. And the ones that want to avoid paying the fine because they believe they'll end up in jail if they don't vote.
I'm the odd one out, I won't travel any more than the specified distance of 8km. The nearest polling booth is 37km away. Some other reluctant voters are so scared of the AEC, they meekly spend a total half day going to vote, and there's not even as much as a sausage sizzle at the polling booth when they get there.
Now, as well as that, the voters get nothing for their effort, nothing is done out here in the bush, it's dying, vegetation and wild critters are taking over. I can never understand why anyone would want to vote when they get nothing in return. The big cities get it all, that's where the money is spent, where all the immigrants are. If you're a traditional Anglo Aussie in the bush, you'll get nothing, it's not fashionable to spend money on us. It's a racial thing. Traditional Aussies are looked down upon, don't let anyone tell you different. Same in the UK, they're having a terrible time, they can blame Tony Blair for that. Here in Australia, we can blame Whitlam, Grassby, and a host of other Labor prime ministers and ministers. Some Liberal idiots included in that as well, Fraser for example.
I pay the fail-to-vote fine because it's convenient, on the computer, and I'm not really supporting the "enemy" AEC because one day they are going to have to wake up and apply their legal requirements sensibly. There's so many anomalies that if voters banded together and complained in unison, the AEC would have no alternative but to fix then all. On of those anomalies is the long distance to the nearest PO mail box, for a postal vote if your mailman can't or won't take your voting documents back to the Post Office for you. The nearest PO mailing may be, and often is, a very long way away, requiring a tiring trip in the car.