The Tally Room

Three of Tasmania's fifteen Legislative Council electorate go to the polls on Saturday. Tasmania's Legislative Council members serve six year terms, with their terms gradualy expiring over a six-year cycle. These are the first elections sinc e Legislative Council boundaries were redrawn last year. I...

South Africa's voters are now going to the polls in their fourth post-apartheid election. I've previously blogged about the campaign, and will just post here an article of mine published in today's Crikey Daily Mail: South Africa's voters go to the polls today to vote...

Every left-winger's favourite religious right politician, Gordon Moyes MLC, looks set to finally break his ties with Fred Nile's Christian Democratic Party, with Nile moving to expel Moyes after a recent falling-out between the two. Moyes joined the Legislative Council in 2002 when Fred Nile's...

South Africa heads to the polls on Wednesday for their fourth post-apartheid election, and it seems clear that Jacob Zuma will lead the African National Congress to its fourth consecutive landslide victory. The Democratic Alliance, one of the two major opposition parties, has shifted its...

The federal government announced earlier this week that they will bring back legislation for a 70% tax increase on pre-mixed alcoholic drinks. The legislation was first defeated a month ago when the government refused to agree to Steven Fielding's demand for a ban on...

I have now installed a complete wiki as part of the Tally Room. You can access it at www.tallyroom.com.au/wiki, and I plan to start by including a federal pendulum for the next election, as well as corresponding pages for all 150 electorates. If you...

In the last few days, the Greens in Australia's two largest states have closed nominations for their Senate preselections. In both NSW and Victoria, the process will be decided by a ballot of all members, although processes may vary in some ways. The Victorian...

I haven't yet managed to install the proper Wiki for this site. I started it over the long weekend but hopefully I can get it working over the next week. In the meantime I have suspended open user registration for this site, as I...

While it's not the biggest electoral reform issue on the table (I would consider introducing proportional representation to the House of Representatives much more significant), I've been thinking for a while that there is a strong argument for increasing the number of Members of...

There is no election scheduled in the Republic of Ireland for the next three years, but there is a good chance that the economic crisis may force an early election, and I have completed a Google Earth electoral map of constituencies in the Dail...