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Peter Brent

Mumble, Peter Brent’s long-running polls and politics blog, is now exclusive to Inside Story.

Peter Brent is an Adjunct Research Fellow at Swinburne University of Technology. He tweets on electoral matters at @mumbletwits.

National Affairs Peter Brent 11 September 2019 With the current system favouring gridlock, it’s time to look again at how both houses are elected
National Affairs Peter Brent 4 September 2019 Hawke and Keating showed the way — but not how you (and Paul Keating) might think National Affairs Peter Brent 20 August 2019 Attempts to change the Constitution often fail, but that doesn’t mean we should stop trying National Affairs Peter Brent 7 August 2019 Australia’s lower house voting system isn’t designed to be proportional, though perhaps it should be National Affairs Peter Brent 3 July 2019 The Australian Ballot almost took over the world, but it might not be entirely our idea after all
National Affairs Peter Brent 26 June 2019 Secrecy and convenience don’t always coincide in Australia’s highly accessible electoral system
National Affairs Peter Brent 7 June 2019 Dust settled, our correspondent pokes through the rubble National Affairs Peter Brent 4 June 2019 Will the wrong person be chasing the wrong issues? National Affairs Peter Brent 29 May 2019 What went wrong for Australia’s best-known pollsters? National Affairs Peter Brent 22 May 2019 For Labor leadership aspirants, this might be a good contest to sit out
National Affairs Peter Brent 19 May 2019 Election 2019 | A fearful voter can be an unpredictable thing
National Affairs Peter Brent 18 May 2019 Election 2019 | Will the skittish commentariat be vindicated tonight? National Affairs Peter Brent 17 May 2019 What was the secret of Bob Hawke’s electoral success? Campaign notebook Peter Brent 15 May 2019 Election 2019 | Is a change-oriented campaign helping Labor over the line — and would the polls know either way? National Affairs Peter Brent 7 May 2019 Election 2019 | Voters’ rankings could count in ways that aren’t clear in the polls
National Affairs Peter Brent 3 May 2019 Election 2019 | The Australian Electoral Commission’s success in boosting voter enrolments has created its own problem
National Affairs Peter Brent 29 April 2019 Election 2019 | Whether it’s on 48 or 49 per cent, the Coalition is looking competitive National Affairs Peter Brent 27 April 2019 Election 2019 | An odd decision by Newspoll has shifted the dynamics of the campaign — but by how much? National Affairs Peter Brent 18 April 2019 Labor’s attempt to win government faces much greater obstacles this time round National Affairs Peter Brent 15 April 2019 On the evidence so far, the election will be closer than expected
National Affairs Peter Brent 8 April 2019 Do today’s figures tell us anything at all about how the parties are faring?
National Affairs Peter Brent 28 March 2019 The former immigration minister is finding it hard to be a unifier National Affairs Peter Brent 21 March 2019 Leaving aside errors and misunderstandings, Australia doesn’t have a big fraudulent-voting problem. But a little reassurance wouldn’t go amiss National Affairs Peter Brent 13 March 2019 Our psephological correspondent sticks his neck out National Affairs Peter Brent 5 March 2019 It wasn’t a moderate’s turn to be leader, but that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t work
National Affairs Peter Brent 18 February 2019 Don’t bet on it: experience suggests that asylum seekers won’t be the deciding factor in May
National Affairs Peter Brent 12 February 2019 Buoyed by the 2016 election result, Labor has been thinking big — with all the danger that entails National Affairs Peter Brent 4 February 2019 History suggests we shouldn’t expect a surge in Liberal-leaning independents National Affairs Peter Brent 25 January 2019 Gilmore — once a Liberal stronghold — has reverted to the statewide average, leaving Warren Mundine with an uphill battle National Affairs Peter Brent 18 January 2019 With looming retirements and on-the-nose MPs, there’s a good chance the crossbench will be bigger after this year’s federal election