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Today's podcast was recorded at the roundtable on Boundary Delimitation and Malapportionment in Asia and the Pacific held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on October 28-29, 2023. The event was hosted by Indonesian NGO Perludem and Malaysian organisations Bersih and Tindak Malaysia, in coordination with...

We're now one year out from the next Queensland state redistribution. Queensland was the last state to extend its parliamentary terms to four years, and probably doesn't hold redistributions often enough for the new term lengths. State redistributions are typically held in Victoria and New...

The Australian Electoral Commission has now officially published the population projections to be used when redrawing Victoria's federal electoral map prior to the next federal election. This follows on similar moments in the NSW and Western Australia federal redistributions in recent weeks. Electorates must be...

The Australian Electoral Commission has now released the numbers to be used when drawing new federal electoral boundaries for Western Australia. This follows up on the NSW numbers released last month, with Victoria due next week. Western Australia will get a sixteenth seat, making up...

When I went to look at the Voice referendum results at the booth level in my local area, I noticed some surprising trends in terms of which booths voted Yes. In Parramatta, I was surprised that the north-east of the seat generally voted No, while...

There has been some confusion and even some misleading analysis looking at how the Yes vote performed in seats with large Indigenous populations. In particular, the focus has been on the seats of Lingiari, Leichhardt, Parkes, Kennedy and Durack, all of which voted No. The...

Ben is joined by William Bowe from the Poll Bludger to recap the results of the Voice referendum. This podcast is supported by the Tally Room’s supporters on Patreon. If you find this podcast worthwhile please consider giving your support. You can subscribe to this podcast using this...

Well last night's referendum results turned out to be decisive. At the time of writing, No is sitting on 60.3% of the national vote, and has won all six states as well as the Northern Territory. The ACT voted Yes, and Yes is leading...

Polls have just closed in south-eastern Australia in the Voice referendum. Polls will close in 30 minutes in South Australia, in one hour in Queensland, an hour and a half in the Northern Territory, and three hours in Western Australia. I'll be on ABC Radio...

Polls have just opened in south-eastern Australia in the first federal constitutional referendum in a quarter-century on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament. Polls suggest the Voice is set to fall far short of success, but we'll see soon enough. Voting has...