My papers for the 2023 APSA conference
The 2023 conference of the Australian Political Science Association is taking place in Sydney this week, and I will be presenting two papers -...
JSCEM 2022 election report released
The federal parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters yesterday released their report into the 2022 federal election.
I won't try to summarise every point...
Podcast #109: Finding the electoral sweet spot
Ben is joined by Dr Simon Hix from the European University Institute to discuss a paper he co-wrote with John Carey about finding the...
ACT election guide launched
There are five elections scheduled for 2024 that I'm planning to write guides for, and today I'm ready to unveil the third one of...
Mulgrave by-election live
9:50 - So we don't really have a valid 2CP between Labor and Liberal, so it's a bit hard to say what's going on....
Who do we name our seats after?
Federal redistributions are currently underway in three states. While the main focus is on the boundaries of the electorates, and the electoral implications of...
Podcast #108: Inside a party’s redistribution submission
Shane Easson has been drawing up redistribution submissions for the Australian Labor Party since 1984. This year he's not doing the Labor submission for...
NSW federal redistribution – suggestions released
The suggestions from members of the public, MPs and political parties for the current redistribution of federal electoral boundaries in New South Wales were...
Podcast #107: Boundary delimitation, straight from Malaysia
Today's podcast was recorded at the roundtable on Boundary Delimitation and Malapportionment in Asia and the Pacific held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on October...
Queensland’s (lack of a) redistribution
We're now one year out from the next Queensland state redistribution. Queensland was the last state to extend its parliamentary terms to four years,...