India 2009: Uttar Pradesh

The first round of voting in the world's largest election will take place in just over two weeks. Indian politics is far too big...

Abolishing the Electoral College?

Via FiveThirtyEight, there's an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal outlining efforts to effectively abolish the Electoral College in the US without changing...

Another NSW Greens senate candidate

I'm avoiding making personal comment on the worth of particular candidates or using my internal knowledge within the NSW Greens to comment on the...

Web 2.0 psephology

*Wait a moment while I clear away the cobwebs* Hello all and welcome back from the post-Queensland unscheduled week-long break. I thought I'd return to the...

Antony Green!

In celebration of the end of an election campaign, sing along to one of my favourite songs from Keating! the Musical, "Antony Green": http://www.youtube.com/v/7-yZHGEuBwY&hl=en&fs=1

More information on Indro bogus flyer

Today's Australian carries an article reporting on fake how-to-vote cards handed out by a "Kristy Burchert"  in Indooroopilly calling Greens MP Ronan Lee a...

Queensland ’09: winners and losers

WINNERS As the results shake out, the biggest winner, of course is Anna Bligh and the ALP. In spite of the party ruling for 18...

Yet another outage

So yet again I underestimated traffic, which resulted in the blog again going down overnight. I've had to upgrade to a higher hosting plan....

Interim results

So it's pretty obvious the ALP has won a fairly solid victory. The LNP has gained seven seats: three in Brisbane (including one from...

Liveblogging Queensland

8:57pm - I'm signing off now. I just posted my electoral maps. 8:36pm - Lawrence Springborg will resign as LNP leader. 8:20pm - By popular demand,...