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Ben was joined by Ruth McGowan, a candidate mentor and advocate for women in politics. We discussed the trends of increasing numbers of women being elected to public office in Australia, what barriers remain and what work is being done to get more women...

Speculation about an early federal election never goes away, and I've noticed more recently in relation to the possibility of a federal election later this year. While you can debate the political merits of such a decision, the current redistribution processes make it pretty much...

The NSW special minister of state, John Graham, yesterday announced that the government will ask the state Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters (JSCEM) to hold an inquiry into rates of eligible voters participating in NSW state elections, with a goal of achieving 100%...

Ben is joined by Kerryn Baker from the Department of Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University to discuss the recent elections in the Solomon Islands, which ended with a new prime minister, if not an entirely new government. This podcast is supported by the Tally...

9:31 - I'm going to wrap up my coverage of this race here. At the moment it looks likely that the result will see Labor and Liberal retaining the one seat they had going in, and the Greens winning a seat previously held by the...

Tasmania's upper house stands out amongst Australia's parliamentary chambers with the most unusual constitutional structure. It has single-member electorates - common for lower houses, but unique for a house of review - and those electorates are never all elected at the same time. Instead,...

I've got yet another chapter in the long story of Australians' changing habits in voting. With the final results of the Tasmanian state election, we can look at the Tasmanian trend. The last Tasmanian state election was held in the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic,...

Prior to the Tasmanian election I produced a blog post mapping out the relative strength of candidates within the same party ticket in some electorates at the 2021 election. The maps showed which of a party's candidates topped the vote for that party in...

One feature of the recent Tasmanian state election result was a surprisingly small number of candidates reaching a quota on primary votes, despite the quota being lower than any election in the last quarter century. Just four candidates reached a quota: the leaders of the...