The latest guides – May 4

The front of this website has been quiet recently, but I've been regularly posting a new federal seat guide every day, so be sure...

Tim Hammond resigns, triggering by-election in Perth

We are inching ever closer to a potential federal election, but some news today means we will soon have a federal by-election, in a...

This week’s guides – April 21

There are eight new seat guides up on the website since I last updated last Friday. Reid Herbert Cowan Longman Lindsay Griffith Braddon Macquarie These...

SA federal redistribution – here is the map

I've now finished the draft boundary map for the SA federal redistribution, following on from the draft boundaries released the previous week for Victoria...

New federal pendulum after recent redistributions

Following the release of the draft South Australian redistribution boundaries yesterday, we can now put together a pendulum of all seat margins for the...

SA redistribution live

12:30pm - That's all I'll be posting today. I'll be back on the weekend with an updated pendulum, and will be putting together the...

This week’s guides – April 13

Since I last posted about this, I've published eight more guides, with the links listed below: Pearce Hasluck Page Bonner Dawson Swan Leichhardt Cowper I’ll...

Double Disillusion – the definitive analysis of the 2016 election out now

I'm very pleased to plug a new book that has just been published from ANU Press about the 2016 federal election entitled Double Disillusion. The...

How should we be naming our federal seats?

Australian federal electorates follow a fairly unique naming convention. Australian state seats are usually named after geographic locations, which is also common for national...

ACT and Victorian redistributions – here are the maps

I've finished making Google Earth maps for the draft federal boundaries for Victoria and the ACT, and they are now available for download: ACT...