Following the Turnbull government’s recent changes, Australia has new rules for electing senators. How will they work in practise?
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A guide to making up your mind on a very important decision.
They could win it for Remain … if they go to the polls.
The trend is headed in Leave’s favour.
At federal elections, voters must cast a preference for all candidates in their lower house seat. Failure to do so, or failure to give an ordinal list of preferences, renders the ballot informal.
Many voters feel completely powerless in the election process and their engagement with democracy; they talk in terms of ‘us’ and ‘them’ and of not being respected by those in power.
The Senate reforms and a double-dissolution election means that it is difficult to predict who will be sitting in the upper house after July 2. But you can count on Nick Xenophon being there.
When all the evidence points in one direction, people can quite happily go the other. Whether it’s Trump, Brexit or climate change.
British citizens who have lived outside the UK for 15 years or more won’t have a say.
What makes people decide to leave the gang, and how can you convince them to stay?
A growing number of people are pre-polling, or voting before election day. This has significant implications for the parties in terms of rolling out policy and voter engagement.
Internet polls are offering up quite different results to phone polls. Here are a few suggestions as to why.
The High Court regarded none of Bob Day’s arguments in his challenge to Senate voting reforms as having any merit.
Young people have a lot at stake when it comes to current political decisions. Yet 48% of 18-year-olds and nearly 24% of 19-year-olds are not registered to vote.
Two mathematicians explain why majority voting often fails to elect the candidate preferred by the majority and propose an alternative, ‘majority judgment.’
There have long been complaints that British general elections don’t produce a fair result. Are the locals any better?
It should be of concern to politicians that so much discontent is apparent at a time of relative affluence.
In 2012, nearly one-third of voters with a disability had trouble voting. A 2002 law was supposed to fix this problem. New technology may have the answer at last.
Local elections are taking place across 124 councils in England and will probably have a big impact on the day-to-day issues that most people care about.
An “appalling” return to “the bad old days of Queensland politics” – why political analysts are so concerned about the shock overhaul of voting and the number of MPs in Queensland.
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Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of East Anglia
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Languages and Linguistics, La Trobe University
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Professor of Politics, University of Adelaide
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Principal Lecturer in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor of Political Science, Newcastle University
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Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, York St John University
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Law Professor in Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Election Law, University of Memphis
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Senior Lecturer, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University
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Research Fellow (Henry Jackson Society - Centre on Radicalisation & Terrorism), Royal Holloway University of London
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Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Lecturer in Politics, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Senior Lecturer, School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University
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Senior Research Scholar for Cyber Policy and Security, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
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Doctoral Candidate, Australian National University
