How do you vote in a pandemic?
Applications for postal voting close at 7pm on Monday night. Click here to apply for a vote.
Elections are due in Queensland in less than...
Victorian council wards – how they have changed
I blogged the other day about Victoria's system of independent reviews of each council's electoral structure (the number of wards and the number of...
Victoria’s ward review system: what has been lost
One of the truly sad things about the new local government legislation passed on Thursday night by the Victorian upper house is how it...
Nominations close in Brisbane City and Bundamba
Nominations closed for Queensland's local government elections, as well as the Bundamba state by-election, on Wednesday. These elections will be held on March 28,...
Some thoughts on the single transferable vote
The single transferable vote (STV) is used widely in Australian elections, under a variety of names. Sometimes it's called Hare-Clark, but it's often just...
2019 election – states swing in opposite directions
This post draws on analysis in my chapter in Morrison's Miracle, a forthcoming book from ANU Press and Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia...
Will Victoria abandon proportional representation?
Victoria's Legislative Council is today considering legislation which would significantly worsen Victorian council elections by changing the voting system.
The bill, amongst other reforms, would...
NSW council elections – estimated votes in new wards
I've previously posted about the new boundaries for wards in 18 NSW councils.
I have now finished redistributing the vote totals between wards in these...
Johnston by-election live
8:24pm - We got a final batch of postal votes and it appears we're done for tonight. Labor's vote has dropped from 51% to...
Brisbane City 2020 – candidate update
I published my Brisbane City Council election guide at the end of 2019 and have been focused on other work since then, but I've...