Victoria 2018 – the preference cabal is back
The group voting tickets were released on Sunday, showing how each party will direct its preferences for votes cast above-the-line in each region for...
Victorian candidates – final update
Nominations closed today for the Victorian state election. In this post I'll run through the numbers on how many people are running, and from...
Victorian nominations – Liberals sit out inner city?
Nominations will close tomorrow for registered political parties running in the Victorian state election, with independents having until Friday to nominate.
The Liberal Party today...
Podcast #12 – Tasmanian council elections
Kevin Bonham and I have just put together a bonus episode to discuss the Tasmanian council elections, focusing on the results of the Hobart...
Podcast #11 – Greens seats in Victoria
In this episode, I talk to El Gibbs and Paddy Manning about the Victorian election, with a particular focus on inner-city Greens contests.
This was...
Victoria and federal candidates update
Now that we're past Wentworth, I wanted to revisit the election guides I have posted for the federal and Victorian state elections.
There are a...
How marriage equality was won – the demographics of yes and no
I will be giving a talk at a conference on the one-year anniversary of the marriage law postal survey at ANU in November, and...
Kerryn Phelps and council countbacks
A story in the Sydney Morning Herald this morning discussed how Kerryn Phelps would keep up doing both her jobs as a City of...
Podcast #10 – Wentworth results wrap-up
Ben talked to Peter Brent in a mini-episode about yesterday's Wentworth by-election.
Some links if you want to read more about the by-election:
Ben's post...
Wentworth – wait just a minute
EDIT 6:44PM: We've now got new figures for both Bellevue Hill and Bondi Beach. In both cases we saw the preference flow to Kerryn...