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March 13, 2022

Research shows voters favour financial relief after disasters, but we need climate action too

Hannah Melville-Rea, New York University

The findings indicates natural disasters such as the current floods in southeastern Australia can influence election results.

Malcolm Turnbull emerges from the long campaign in a weakened position, having squandered the benefits of incumbency. AAP/Paul Miller

July 11, 2016

Time to learn the many lessons from a long campaign

Nicholas Reece, The University of Melbourne

There have been three clear lessons from this long election campaign: the vote is fragmenting, the media is fragmenting, and long election campaigns are not a good idea.

Greens leader Richard Di Natale (2L) celebrates on election night. AAP/Mal Fairclough

July 8, 2016

Election 2016 reveals the end of the rusted-on voter and the death of the two-party system

Dennis Altman, La Trobe University

With voters turning away from the two major parties and towards the Greens and micro-parties, it may be time to rethink our entire electoral system.

With voters increasingly disillusioned with the two major parties, microparties such as those led by Jacqui Lambie and Nick Xenophon will play a bigger role. AAP/Mick Tsikas

June 28, 2016

The voter paradox: we say we don’t want a minority government, but we’re happy to vote for one

Peter John Chen, University of Sydney

Whatever the outcome of this election, hung parliaments and minority governments will increasingly be a feature of the Australian political landscape.

The cross-bench senators may call to mind Paul Keating’s charge of ‘unrepresentative swill’, but they also reflect and respond to the 21st-century world in ways that the major parties can’t. AAP/Alan Porritt

February 22, 2015

Don’t blame micro-parties or the Senate – update an archaic system

Mark Triffitt, The University of Melbourne and Travers McLeod, The University of Melbourne

The Senate is not a root cause, but part of a long list of symptoms that indicate Australia’s political system is increasingly unfit for purpose in the 21st century.

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