Brisbane – draft ward boundaries released
The Electoral Commission of Queensland on Friday released its draft boundaries for the 26 wards covering the City of Brisbane - Australia's biggest local...
Local government mergers – in WA and New Zealand
While New South Wales is currently undergoing a process of considering metropolitan council amalgamations, Western Australia has recently reached the unsuccessful conclusion of a...
NSW government pushing for council mergers
Local councils across Sydney are currently going through a process of making submissions to the state government's 'Fit For The Future' program, which is...
Why can’t Greater Sydney be run as a democracy?
There was a story yesterday about plans by the NSW government to form a "Greater Sydney Commission", which would take charge of planning for...
NT redistribution – draft boundary map finished
Following up on Wednesday's post about the Northern Territory redistribution, I've now completed my Google Earth map of the electoral boundaries.
You can download the...
Draft boundaries released for NT redistribution
Amongst many other redistributions, the Northern Territory is redrawing the boundaries of the 25 electorates for the territory's Legislative Assembly.
The redistribution map was released yesterday....
Federal redistribution update
The Australian Electoral Commission is currently undertaking federal redistributions in New South Wales (which is losing one seat), Western Australia (which is gaining one...
NSW Nationals want smaller seats – how?
Last month, Nationals MLC Ben Franklin announced that he would seek a parliamentary inquiry into the size of the western NSW electorates of Barwon...
Ireland votes yes for marriage equality – results map
Ireland voted on Friday in a referendum on allowing same-sex marriage, and it passed overwhelmingly.
Since I have previously produced a Google map of Ireland's parliamentary...
Senate reform – questions that need answering
Two weeks ago I wrote a piece for the Guardian putting the case for reform to the system of Senate group voting tickets, in...