NT 2024 – the next morning
Last night's election results were very decisive, and the result became clear quite early on. In hindsight I realise I never bothered to actually...
NT election night live
11:24 - I'm gonna end the live blog here. I'll be back in the morning with another blog post.
11:20 - The addition of some...
NT election day open thread
Polls have just opened in the Northern Territory.
I won't be blogging during the day, but I'll be back at 6pm ACST to cover the...
NSW council elections – the big party presence
This blog is a follow-up to my post from November 2021, which tracked where the Labor, Liberal and Greens parties had run across the...
Podcast #127: The NSW Liberal nomination mess
This is a solo episode, where Ben runs through all the key parts of the story of how and where the NSW Liberal Party...
Assessing the political impact of the missing Liberals
I have been spending the last day updating my council election guides to include the full list of candidates, a summary of who is...
Podcast #126: NT election preview
Ben is joined by NT political historian Robyn Smith to preview the upcoming Northern Territory general election. We discuss the seats in play, the...
NSW nominations day – tracking the Liberal gap
I wasn't planning to do a blog post until we had the final lists of nominations and I could do all of my usual...
Liberal nomination debacle put their opponents in box seat in NSW council elections
Over the last few days I have been frenetically trying to keep my candidate lists up to date as many candidates announce last minute,...
SA state redistribution – the starting numbers
South Australia's Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission is due to publish draft boundaries this Thursday, 15 August. The boundaries will be used at the 2026...