No, the way it works is that you can vote in two ways. Either you can number all of the candidates running (for my division there were 65!) in order of preference, or you can adopt a party 'ticket', so that you adopt that party's order of preference. I personally wasn't going to research 65 different candidates running from 13 or so different parties, so I adopted my preferred party's ticket.
EDIT// Mark Latham called John Howard an 'arselicker' on radio. If he hadn't already received my vote, he'd have just won it.
