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International Benjamin Reilly 27 November 2020 Could preferential voting be an “Archimedean lever of change” for American politics?
Correspondents Nicole Hemmer 19 October 2020 What the Republican Party is attacking is democracy itself National Affairs Peter Brent 13 October 2020 Australians are more likely to vote than their international counterparts — but does that mean the system should stay as it is? International Lesley Russell 8 September 2020 Young voters look like playing a bigger role than usual in this year’s election Essays & Reportage Murray Goot 19 September 2019 Predictions of the 2019 election result were way off the mark. But we still don’t know why
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 International Lesley Russell 10 July 2019 A furore over a proposed question in the 2020 US census could escalate into a constitutional crisis 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 18 May 2019 Election 2019 | Will the skittish commentariat be vindicated tonight?
National Affairs John Quiggin 17 May 2019 Election 2019 | The two-party-preferred count is a relic of an era in which the major parties were overwhelmingly dominant 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 Campaign notebook Peter Browne 3 May 2019 Election 2019 | How the Liberal right found its enemy, why the High Court could be busy this year, and why you might worry about early voting
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
Books & Arts Paul Rodan 5 March 2019 Books | How Australia came to be good at elections National Affairs Graeme Orr 11 December 2018 The Coalition wants to introduce compulsory voter ID in Australia. Here’s why we don’t need it National Affairs Joo-Cheong Tham 2 October 2018 A little-remarked feature of New Zealand’s political system would help make Australia more democratic Books & Arts Sylvia Martin 1 October 2018 Australian suffragettes played a sometimes flamboyant role in the fight for the vote, at home and in Britain
National Affairs Ian Watson 14 September 2018 The short answer is yes, but the long answer is more complicated
National Affairs James Murphy 28 March 2018 By the time a new lord mayor is elected in May, quite a few electors will have voted twice National Affairs Peter Brent 2 February 2018 Conventional wisdom advises against holding referendums at election time. Conventional wisdom is wrong National Affairs Tim Colebatch 14 December 2017 The detailed figures are out at last, and they confirm that One Nation’s preferences barely mattered National Affairs Frank Bongiorno 19 November 2017 Perhaps the most interesting results of the marriage-equality survey were to be seen outside the eastern capitals
National Affairs Peter Brent 15 November 2017 Both votes are a test for the government, but the second has suddenly become less predictable
National Affairs Peter Brent 30 October 2017 How-to-vote cards will play a key role in determining next month’s election result in Queensland National Affairs Peter Brent 1 September 2017 More young Australians are enrolled to vote than ever before. But will this have the impact Labor and the Greens are hoping for? National Affairs Peter Brent 10 August 2017 Could one divisive figure decide the result? National Affairs Paul Rodan 26 May 2017 Fifty years ago this weekend, Australians voted on two constitutional changes. One of them was defeated, and that’s still influencing election results today