The Tally Room

In the final episode of the Tally Room for 2018, I'm joined by Kevin Bonham to discuss the close races in the Victorian state election, and to run through all eight Legislative Council contests just days out from the pushing of the button in...

Federal Liberal MP Tim Wilson was interviewed on Saturday morning, and was quoted as saying that "ultimately the public needs to vote" for all of the great female candidates his party is running. https://twitter.com/verbaliza/status/1068626159292755968 Anyone who has read my previous analysis of gender balance would know...

Ben spoke to Paddy Manning from the Monthly and Stewart Jackson from the University of Sydney about the results of Saturday's Victorian state election, including a focus on the Greens' performance and preferences in the upper house. You can subscribe to this podcast using this RSS...

The Legislative Council result at the moment looks like a big victory for Labor and the small parties, and a bad result for the Greens and the Coalition, but the impact of late counting and below the line votes is yet to be made...

Voters in Victoria will be voting today in their state election - except, that is, for those who have already voted, in record numbers. As of Thursday night, 1,184,095 early votes had been cast. This is already well ahead of 2014, when a total of...

In this week's podcast Ben is joined by Tom Clement from Geeklections and Tim Colebatch. We discussed the Victorian upper house race in depth, followed by a summary of the Victorian state election campaign. Tom's analysis of the group voting tickets Ben's blog about the...

Today is one year since the announcement of the result in the marriage law postal survey, and I have a special podcast episode focusing on that process. I interviewed Simon Copland and Dr Liz Allen on Tuesday at a conference about the anniversary at the...