The Tally Room

Election results on Saturday have largely been interpreted as some sort of endorsement of new Liberal leader Tony Abbott, yet looking at the figures the result is highly unremarkable for the Liberal Party. Bradfield and Higgins are both incredibly safe seats for the Liberal Party....

8:32pm - There are reports tonight that police were called to Warrawee booth today following an incident where an abusive DLP worker assaulted a Greens volunteer, who he pushed over a fence. The worker had apparently been verbally aggressive to a number of other...

Voters will soon go to the polls in Bradfield, in northern Sydney, and Higgins, in eastern Melbourne, to elect new members of Parliament to succeed former Liberal MPs Brendan Nelson and Peter Costello. I will be at Cromehurst Special School in Lindfield today, and mostly...

So I visited the seat of Bradfield yesterday, covering the Hornsby prepoll centre for a few hours in the afternoon for the Greens' candidate, Sueie Gemmell. The booth was quiet, however the one interesting element came when we had one of the nine Christian Democratic...

Voters in the southern Perth state electorate of Willagee go to the polls today to elect a new state  MP to succeed former Labor premier Alan Carpenter, who retired from politics in September after losing government at the 2008 election. The seat is not being...

With Malcolm Turnbull's leadership now in its terminal stage, it seems likely that opposition parties will vote to defer the legislation to establish the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, with the legislation being referred to a Senate inquiry until after the Copenhagen international climate change...

Malcolm Turnbull looks set to lose his leadership in a push to pass the government's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, causing a deeper split in the party than any seen in a long time. The split has been driven deeply through the party in all...

Fred Nile has sent out a strange survey to voters in Bradfield, asking them whether they support or oppose a series of statements, many strongly weighted towards Nile's positions. These include: "Jesus Christ is the Son of God" "We should do what the Greenies want and...

Wales looks set to hold a referendum in the next to devolve substantially more powers from the Parliament in Westminster to the Welsh Assembly. Wales voted to establish a devolved Assembly in a 1997 referendum, and the Assembly was created in 1999 at the same...

I have previously blogged about the Federal Government's second Green Paper on electoral reform. The government has new set up a forum for people to discuss the issues raised in the Paper (although it doesn't seem particularly productive). In addition, submissions will close on November...