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Mark Latham has made another return to Australian political debate in the last few days, with an article from his former chief of staff being published in a scientific journal, arguing that Latham suffered from a "narcissistic and paranoid personality": In a article written for...

I haven't managed to get my head around the consequences of India's electoral "delimitation" process, which saw most of the country's electorate boundaries redrawn for the first time in 33 years, but this article from the BBC gives a good overview of the consequences: In...

Following Lawrence Springborg's election-night resignation has resulted in the election of largely-unknown Gold Coast MP John-Paul Langbroek as leader of the Queensland LNP. Langbroek defeated former National Fiona Simpson and former Liberal Tim Nicholls. Lawrence Springborg has been elected as the party's deputy leader....

Maharashtra is India's second-largest state, covering western parts of central India. The state's capital is Mumbai, India's largest city and financial capital. Maharashtra has 48 seats in the Lok Sabha, and voters will go to the polls in the first three rounds of voting from...

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 and complex to cover on a national level, so I thought I'd start doing posts on the election in individual...

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 the constitution. This approach, called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, would see states pass legislation committing them to a binding...

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 Senate preselection, so I'm just restricting myself to posting information easily available on the internet. In addition to NSW Greens MLC...

*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 blog by throwing out some ideas I had late in the campaign for how we can cover future campaigns. Every election...

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

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 "turncoat" and asking voters to "Just Vote 1". I reported on the flier yesterday morning while voting was going on,...