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...