IPART declares NSW councils “unfit”, set for merger fight
The NSW Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) has today released its report into the "Fit for the Future" process, which has been the...
Tuesday news open thread
We're expecting two big bits of news today.
The Canadian election results will be flowing in over the next few hours. Polls close at 10am...
NSW redistribution – notional vote figures
I've been getting a bunch of questions about the relative strength of parties in the proposed new federal electorates which were released by the...
NSW redistribution, council amalgamations and SA reform
There's been a lot of electoral news this morning! I'll try to run through it all really quickly. I'll be putting together the new...
WA council elections – new ward map posted
Western Australia is currently undergoing regular council elections. It's taken a while to pull together, but I've now completed an updated ward map for...
NT redistribution – boundaries finalised
The Northern Territory has been undergoing a redistribution for the 25 seats in the Legislative Assembly, and the final boundaries were released last week.
Quite...
Canning 2015 – results summary
Saturday's by-election in the federal seat of Canning in Western Australia resulted in the Liberal Party's Andrew Hastie to win despite a sizeable swing...
Canning by-election live
Primary vote results as of 9:33pm - 45/45 booths reporting
Candidate
Party
Votes
%
Swing
Projected
Vimal Kumar Sharma
Palmer United
2,272
3.06
-3.82
2.35
Connor Whittle
Liberal Democratic Party
410
0.55
+0.55
0.55
Michelle Allen
Pirate Party
671
0.90
+0.9
0.90
Greg Smith
Ausralian Defence Veterans Party
570
0.77
+0.77
0.77
Katrina Love
Animal Justice
1,007
1.36
+1.36
1.36
Andrew Hastie
Liberal
34,437
46.42
-4.65
47.52
Teresa...
Turnbull replacing Abbott – why is this happening?
With Malcolm Turnbull replacing Tony Abbott as Liberal leader and Prime Minister, we have now had three parliamentary terms in a row where the...
Turnbull challenges for Liberal leadership
Malcolm Turnbull this afternoon resigned as Communications Minister and challenged for the leadership of the Liberal Party.
This is an open thread to discuss these...