Vote counting - why so long?
The votes are cast, but counting them is no simple task. Peter Martin explains the process - and why it takes so long.
The votes are cast, but counting them is no simple task. Peter Martin explains the process - and why it takes so long.
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A fortnight after frustrating millions and angering the Prime Minister by shutting down the census website on census-night the Bureau of Statistics has a positive message.
Malcolm Turnbull is a man under pressure.
Nauru and Manus Island have served the Coalition well, right up to the election, but there are ominous signs that the music may stop leaving us without a seat.
It isn't the conditions on Nauru or Manus that are the biggest problem, or the level of care the asylum seekers are afforded, or the tensions within the refugee populations and with the wider communities.
Despite recent concerns raised by the head of Australia's competition watchdog, privatisation remains a viable reform option.
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Why won't the media give Peter Dutton a break?
Why should we let the debacle with the census ruin the chance for voting reform?
Malcolm Turnbull would do well to remember most urgent advice drummed into children about looking right and left because when he steps off the kerb in the 45th parliament, he's as likely to get cleaned up by the Karma bus as he is to get safely to the other side.
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The new Senator is right, of course. Everyone has been manipulating the data.
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There's a huge difference between good debt and bad debt, writes Mark Kenny.
Former prime ministers are usually afforded a degree of latitude in defending their policies from their own time in office.
With the chief executive's contract still under a cloud is it time for him to go?
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Denial of service? Denial of common sense more like. And the net result is a denial of public confidence and just as inevitably, a denial of prime ministerial good will.
There was high anxiety in the family as the census night of 1966 approached.
Ordinary Australians are unlikely to ever be told the details behind these events. And there's another commonality too - if not a proved one. China.
If only our politicians' outrage about the census was directed at the systemic failures of immigration detention on Nauru.
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'Reckless' doesn't begin to describe the culture at the top of the Bureau of Statistics.
The government tries to explain when an attack isn't an attack.
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The hurly-burly of the 2016 election campaign, as seen through the eyes of Fairfax reporters and photographers.