QLD council elections 2020 – ward redistributions
I've posted a few times recently about the Brisbane City Council ward redistribution, but it's not the only Queensland council redrawing its electoral boundaries.
A...
Queensland government backflips on compulsory preferences for councils
The Queensland government has dropped the key piece of its council reform package, by abandoning plans to change the council voting system, a change...
Victoria 2018 – Voter numbers keep rising thanks to enrolment boost
The Victorian Electoral Commission has published more information about turnout at the 2018 state election as part of their submission to the inquiry into...
The pre-poll surge: what, exactly, is the problem?
A parliamentary inquiry into the 2019 federal election has recently finished receiving submissions, and amongst other issues a number of commentators have bemoaned the...
Victoria 2018: informal voting trends
The Electoral Matters Committee (EMC) of the Victorian parliament is currently holding an inquiry into the conduct of the 2018 state election, and as...
No names above the line hurt independents
The Senate race in the Australian Capital Territory often promises to get interesting, but never really does. The quota for election in the ACT...
Breaking up the Senate? Why it’s such a bad idea
The Australian reported on Sunday about an idea from Queensland LNP senator James McGrath that would see the Senate broken up so that senators represent "provinces"...
Exhausted votes in the Senate drop in 2019
Opponents of Senate voting reform in 2016 focused a lot of attention on the danger of votes exhausting - which happens when a voter...
Below-the-line rates go up in 2019
This is the latest in my occasional series looking back at the final results of the 2019 federal election.
The 2019 federal election was the...
Voting system change boosts Labor and Greens in Brisbane City
I posted back in March about the Queensland government's proposed reforms to local government in that state. The reforms include a bunch of other...