Victorian State Election, 2018

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Tragic that Fiona Patten's party is no longer just called "Sex", and is now running with the very boring and Reddity name "Reason". That led to the very funny situation last election, when an atlas user had to censor the name of the party as if the word "sex" was an extreme expletive.

Who looks best in the micros in terms of preference deals?

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Oh yeah, just remembered that something calling itself "vote 1 for local jobs" won a seat last election. Does it still exist?

Preference deals are really one of the most hilariously demented electoral systems in the democratic world, tragic that they were eliminated federally.

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With about a third of the vote in (so it will probably change, although ASV probably can tell for real) and the upper house results are an amusing shambles, with the Greens being wiped out and assorted micros (the "Aussie battlers" party, Animal Justice, the Lib Dems, Sustainable Australia, that random party that is actually a taxi driver special interest group) getting 10 seats

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Holy Christ - the nationals have fallen into fourth place in Morwell with a 34 percent swing against them. Right now the result is too close to call between Labor and the incumbent ex-nat independent. This is a coal mining town in the middle of Gippsland, which received notoriety for an enormous coal fire a few years back.

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Now Northern Met region is showing Fiona Patton winning, and no Liberals at all.

Please can an Australian explain to me what the appeal of the Derryn Hinch party is?

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Looks like the council is at:

Labor: 19 (+5)
Liberal: 9 (-5)
Derryn Hinch Justice 4
Transport Matters 2
National 1 (-1)
Greens 1 (-4)
Sustainable 1
Animal Justice 1
Aussie Battler 1
Lib Dems 1

Astonishingly good results from Hinch there (worth noting he has a close relationship with microparties Don and "preference whisperer" Glenn Druery) - for some reason the left parties (Labor, Greens, AJP, Reason) all generously lended their preferences to his gaggle over each other, which could have hurt their total.

Labor seems to have lost a bit with postal votes - they're behind in seats like Brighton and Croydon.