Nominations close – final candidate numbers breakdown
Nominations were announced yesterday, with a small increase in lower house candidates but a substantial shrinking of the size of Senate ballot papers.
1056 candidates have nominated for the House of Representatives, a slight increase from the 994 who nominated in 2016, but still less...
NSW 2019 – Final upper house preference count
The New South Wales election process came to a close this morning when the button was pushed for the New South Wales Legislative Council, triggering the distribution of preferences. This count took over an hour, seemingly longer due to more voters marking preferences, and...
Nomination checklists and ineligibility
Nominations for the federal election will close next Tuesday, April 23. This is the first full federal election since a massive number of federal MPs lost their seats in 2017 and 2018 due to ineligibility, mostly due to citizenship. We'd expect about 1000 people...
Book review – Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage
I just recently finished From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage by Judith Brett, and I thought it was an excellent read and would be of interest to the readers of this blog.
I put together a book review for the website Dictionary of Sydney, which has now...
Federal election called
Scott Morrison visited the Governor-General early this morning, calling the federal election for May 18.
It's unusual to call a federal election on a Thursday. It's more typical for it to be called on a Sunday. There's some good reasons why he's going today, and...