In the first week of the campaign we journeyed around the country with a team of politics experts. Now we retrace our steps to look at what’s happened since.
What are the key seats and issues affecting Australians? Six experts tell us what to expect in Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania and New South Wales.
Every state and territory is different: how did they vote in Election 2013?
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The Conversation asked Australia’s leading experts to profile the eight states and territories in the lead up to the election. With the result decided (albeit some details still to be ironed out), we look…
Over there - what are the key states and seats that will decide the election? Here’s our handy guide.
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Rory Cahill, The Conversation; Fron Jackson-Webb, The Conversation, and Michael Courts, The Conversation
From the moment prime minister Kevin Rudd called the election on August 4, The Conversation has kept you up-to-date and informed with the best political analysis from Australia’s sharpest academic minds…
Almost two-thirds (61%) of Sydney residents have at least one parent who was born overseas.
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STATE OF THE STATES: a snapshot of the key issues affecting each state and territory in the lead-up to Saturday’s election. Sydney is Australia’s most multicultural city. Almost two-thirds of residents…
Queensland has a disproportionate number of marginal seats, making it a key battleground.
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STATE OF THE STATES: a snapshot of the key issues affecting each state and territory in the lead up to Saturday’s election. With more marginal seats than any state other than New South Wales - and easily…
The ACT is the least politically represented jurisdiction in Australia.
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STATE OF THE STATES: a snapshot of the key issues affecting each state and territory in the lead up to Saturday’s election. The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) is generally regarded as a Labor stronghold…
South Australia voters could be about to repeat the 1990s banishment of federal Labor MPs.
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STATE OF THE STATES: a snapshot of the key issues affecting each state and territory in the lead up to Saturday’s election. With just days to polling and deepening voter scepticism towards Kevin Rudd and…
In terms of a two-party contest, Victoria has just three ultra-marginal seats.
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STATE OF THE STATES: a snapshot of the key issues affecting each state and territory in the lead up to Saturday’s election. With a total of 37 seats, the state of Victoria should figure as a major battleground…
Due to its small population, WA has only 15 federal electorates, or 11% of the total.
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STATE OF THE STATES: a snapshot of the key issues affecting each state and territory in the lead up to Saturday’s election. During Tony Abbott’s recent campaign visit to Western Australia, the state’s…
Australians see the NT as a place of red sand, Uluru and Aborigines but this is an incomplete picture.
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STATE OF THE STATES: a snapshot of the key issues affecting each state and territory in the lead up to Saturday’s election. The Northern Territory is, in effect, a self-governing territory of the Commonwealth…
An overlapping dissatisfaction with minority governments in Canberra and Tasmania could see Labor lose its four seats.
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STATE OF THE STATES: a snapshot of the key issues affecting each state and territory in the lead up to Saturday’s election. Leading up to the September 7 federal election, one of the multiple three-word…