Podcast #142: Right-wing minor parties and the federal election
Ben is joined by Ben Moffitt from Monash University to discuss the role of right-wing minor parties in federal politics, why it is so...
Federal guide unlocked, and SA 2026 guide published
We are now less than two months away from the last possible date for the 2025 Australian federal election, so it seemed to be...
Port Macquarie by-election live
11:32 - We haven't had any more updates for over an hour so it looks like we've got all we're gonna get tonight. The...
WA needs a JSCEM
Over the last few years I have had the privilege of making submissions and then appearing before parliamentary inquiries reviewing the conduct of the...
WA’s upper house counting in the dark
We have a lot of information about how the count is going for the Legislative Assembly in Western Australia - there's a few close...
The last election before we expand the parliament?
The federal Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters holds an inquiry into the conduct of each federal election, and they did so in 2023....
Podcast #141: WA Labor’s third landslide
Ben is joined by William Bowe from the Poll Bludger to wrap up the results of yesterday's Western Australian state election, which was a...
Assessing the WA landslide
For this post I wanted to put together a bunch of my thoughts the day after the WA election. I will be recording a...
WA election night live
12:21 - This is my final update for tonight.
I've put together a map showing the estimated 2PP swings at tonight's election, but you can...
Major party domination in WA
There has been a common story all over Australian politics of the major parties losing ground.
We now have the largest crossbench in both houses...