Brisbane City Council – council results
This is the final of my three maps summarising key results from yesterday's voting in Queensland. You can also check out my maps of the Brisbane lord mayoral results and the referendum results.
Overall, there was a swing to the ALP and away from the...
QLD referendum results map
Queenslanders yesterday voted in a referendum on whether the state Parliamentary terms should be extended from three to four years, and that election dates should be fixed on a date in October.
The result was close, but the referendum passed. At the time of writing,...
Brisbane City Council – Lord Mayoral results
The Liberal National Party's Graham Quirk won a second full term last night as Lord Mayor of Brisbane, the fourth successive win by the LNP after the two wins by Campbell Newman in 2004 and 2008.
He won comfortably with 58.9% of the votes counted...
QLD election night live
10:20pm - Alright I'll call it a night. I'll come back tomorrow and put together some maps of the results. In summary:
The Yes vote looks like winning the referendum. Not by a lot, but remarkably consistently across the state, including in Labor and LNP...
QLD election day open thread
Queenslanders are voting today in council elections, and on a referendum to change the constitution to have fixed four-year terms for the state Parliament.
I won't be liveblogging results tonight as I'll be out, but you can use this thread to discuss the results, and...
The anti-democratic alternatives to Senate reform
Until Labor's recent cynical turn against reforming the Senate, there was general agreement amongst the main political parties and electoral experts that something needed to be done to deal with the Senate. The number of candidates running for the Senate has skyrocketed, which has made it significantly...
Queensland council election – ward map completed
It's only nine days now until Queenslanders vote for their councils for the next four years (along with a referendum on fixed four-year terms for the state parliament), and I've finally finished my Google Earth map of the ward boundaries.
Sixteen councils have changed their...
Brisbane City Council guide finished
Voters in Queensland will be voting on March 19 in local government elections, along with a referendum on fixed four-year terms for the state Parliament (which I've previously blogged about).
For the first time, I've put together a complete guide to the Brisbane City Council...
Senate reform – does exhausting votes help the party leading?
There's been a lot of attempts by various people to predict the impact of Senate reform in terms of which parties will win and which parties will lose.
Some of this has been smart, and some of it has been quite dumb. Some has focused...
JSCEM Senate reform inquiry – video highlights
I watched some parts of today's JSCEM inquiry, and cut together a few short clips of interesting parts of the day. I thought I would post them on Youtube and here - if you have a section which you think was particularly interesting, let...