With 45 seats held by parties other than Labor, Labor has won a three-seat majority in Queensland.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on One Nation
Displaying 41 - 60 of 87 articles
Voters in Queensland and the rest of Australia may need to accustom themselves to a new norm of tight, drawn-out contests, where party leaders’ election night speeches might be obsolete.
Unlike Tony Windsor in 2016, none of Barnaby Joyce’s New England byelection opponents had the resources to run a strong campaign.
Malcolm Turnbull may say that the Queensland election was decided on state issues, but there are plenty of lessons for the federal LNP in the results.
Labor is still shy of the 47 seats it needs to form government in Queensland, but it is best placed to do so in the coming days.
With the results now hours away, much attention will also be on the performance of One Nation.
With Labor having largely defused the Adani issue, debate on Twitter in the final weeks of the 2017 Queensland election campaign has come to focus chiefly on the role of One Nation.
One Nation Queensland leader Steve Dickson said the Safe Schools program contained ‘highly explicit material’ that is being ‘directed at young children’. We asked the experts to look at the facts.
If the predicted strong preferences from One Nation to the LNP occur at the Queensland election, it would be bad news not just for state Labor, but also federal Labor.
One Nation Queensland leader Steve Dickson said ‘up to 21 fathers’ are taking their lives in Australia every week. Is that accurate?
The Fraser Anning defection follows weeks of tension with Pauline Hanson and her adviser James Ashby, and a bitter clash at the One Nation party meeting on Monday morning.
Politics podcast: swinging into the Sunshine State’s election
The pundits are reluctant to place bets on who will win Queensland's November 25 election.
Politics Podcast: Kevin Rudd on avoiding Donald Trump.
Kevin Rudd now spends much of his time in the US, where he keeps a close eye on the unfolding Trump presidency.
People distinguish between levels of government when casting their votes. Nevertheless, a state result can reverberate federally, whether it is sending a protest or for other reasons. We only have to remember…
The last-minute bargaining on media reforms are a minimalistic band-aid response that will do nothing to prevent further concentration of Australia’s media landscape.
The University of Canberra’s Nicholas Klomp and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics.
Local neighbourhoods where Asians and Muslims form a majority are almost entirely concentrated in Australia’s two major cities – Sydney and Melbourne.
Politics podcast: Matt Canavan on Adani
Matt Canavan tells The Conversation this mine is only one part of a plan for 'opening up the Galilee Basin' to provide investment opportunities, exports, and employment.
The University of Canberra’s Deep Saini and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics.
Federal Labor is pushing hard on James Ashby. A prime motive is embarrassing the Coalition over preferences, ahead of the Queensland election, and the later federal one.
Job Board
-
Postdoctoral Research Fellow funded by the Snow Medical Research Foundation
-
Finance and Operations Manager
-
Chair in Inter-Cultural and Inter-Religious Relations/Professor
-
Lecturer, Games and Interactivity
-
Climate & Energy Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Top contributors
-
Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
-
Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
-
Lecturer, The University of Queensland
-
Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
-
Senior Lecturer in Australian Politics, Monash University
-
Associate Professor, Australian Catholic University
-
Professor, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong
-
Associate Professor, Politics and Public Policy, Flinders University
-
Honorary Associate Professor, The University of Queensland
-
Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academic, University of Canberra
-
Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Canberra
-
Senior Lecturer, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
-
Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
-
Professor, Queensland University of Technology
-
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
