Guide to the Johnston by-election
The first vote of the year will be coming up at the end of February, when voters in the Darwin-area electorate of Johnston will...
NSW 2020: new ward boundaries finalised
Local councils in New South Wales will go to the polls in September this year to elect new councillors for the next four years.
I...
By-election coming up in Currumbin
There will be a by-election in a marginal LNP seat in Queensland in the next few months after Liberal National MP Jann Stuckey announced...
WA redistribution – final boundaries
I managed to overlook a new electoral development amongst a rush of moving house at the end of last year: the final boundaries for...
Podcast #32 – The Australian Election Study
Ben is joined by the ANU's Jill Sheppard to discuss the Australian Election Study: the process and some of the findings.
AES 2019 election...
Podcast #31 – Introduction to Brisbane City Council
This episode is all about the March 2020 election for Brisbane City Council, the most populous council in Australia. Ben is joined by Alexis...
Guide to Brisbane City Council 2020 – now up
I have just finished my first full seat guide since the federal election, and it covers the Brisbane City Council election, due on March...
Australian Election Study released
The results of the Australian Election Study was released yesterday morning with a great deal of information about how and why Australians voted at...
Podcast #30 – can our voting system really be “fair”?
Ben is joined by Peter Brent and Stewart Jackson to discuss whether it's ever possible for a single-member voting system to be "fair" in...
Podcast #29: Redistribution update
I'm joined by William Bowe from Poll Bludger to run through all of the electoral redistributions which have been conducted while we've all been...