The Tally Room

In October 2015, I wrote about an attempt by the Liberal National Party and Katter's Australian Party to pass legislation through the Queensland Parliament which would have increased malapportionment amongst Queensland electorates. This legislation had a chance of passing despite Labor being in power due...

Things have been quiet here for the last few weeks but a lot of things are still happening. I've started a regular column writing for the Guardian Australia. You can read my first two columns at these links: Political polls matter, but the overall trend is what...

Queenslanders yesterday voted in a referendum on whether the state Parliamentary terms should be extended from three to four years, and that election dates should be fixed on a date in October. The result was close, but the referendum passed. At the time of writing,...

10:20pm - Alright I'll call it a night. I'll come back tomorrow and put together some maps of the results. In summary: The Yes vote looks like winning the referendum. Not by a lot, but remarkably consistently across the state, including in Labor and LNP...

Queenslanders are voting today in council elections, and on a referendum to change the constitution to have fixed four-year terms for the state Parliament. I won't be liveblogging results tonight as I'll be out, but you can use this thread to discuss the results, and...

Until Labor's recent cynical turn against reforming the Senate, there was general agreement amongst the main political parties and electoral experts that something needed to be done to deal with the Senate. The number of candidates running for the Senate has skyrocketed, which has made it significantly...