Podcast #54: Camden, Campbelltown and Liverpool
This is the first in a series of podcasts with local experts about various major local councils in New South Wales in the lead-up...
Pre-poll boom expected for NSW council elections
The NSW Electoral Commission has now released it's planned booths for both pre-poll and election day for the December 4 elections (check out "step...
How-to-votes banned at booths for NSW council elections
Throughout the most recent outbreak of COVID-19 in New South Wales there has been a lack of information about how the election process would...
Postal voting falls short in South Gippsland
There is a local council election currently being held in South Gippsland Shire in eastern Victoria.
South Gippsland's former dysfunctional council was sacked in 2019...
Party politics spreads across Sydney councils
Over the last two decades, we've seen the culmination of a long trend of political parties taking on a more dominant role in local...
Enrolment drops in parts of Sydney in the pandemic
This is the final chapter in my series looking at electoral enrolment data in the Sydney region.
One of the things I noticed when I...
How enrolment trends are playing out in Sydney councils
Last week I put up a number of posts analysing enrolment data in the Greater Sydney region, with a focus on Camden and Blacktown....
New NSW by-election guides added
It's been two weeks since I first posted about the resignations of three Coalition MPs leading to impending by-elections, and the guides I've prepared...
The City of Blacktown’s population boom
This is a follow-up to Wednesday's post about voter enrolment numbers increasing in Camden Council, this time looking at the equivalent growth taking place...
Camden Council’s population transformation
On Monday, I posted about the trends in population growth across Sydney as seen in the NSWEC enrolment data, with a particular focus on...