Rory Amon’s departure causes Pittwater by-election
A by-election will be coming up soon for the NSW state seat of Pittwater, at the northern end of the Northern Beaches, after sitting Liberal MP Rory Amon was charged with ten sexual assault offences earlier today. Amon also resigned from the Liberal Party.
We...
Podcast #128: NT election – the 90s are back
Ben is joined by the ABC's Thomas Morgan to discuss the results of the NT election. We talk about the CLP's big victory, how northern Darwin has flipped back after being solidly Labor for 23 years, and the rise of the Greens and independents...
NT 2024 – the next morning
Last night's election results were very decisive, and the result became clear quite early on. In hindsight I realise I never bothered to actually call the result on my live blog.
The CLP has won a substantial victory - they currently lead in 16 seats...
NT election night live
11:24 - I'm gonna end the live blog here. I'll be back in the morning with another blog post.
11:20 - The addition of some pre-poll votes in Casuarina has pushed the CLP into the lead. I suspect they will stay there. And the addition...
NT election day open thread
Polls have just opened in the Northern Territory.
I won't be blogging during the day, but I'll be back at 6pm ACST to cover the results.
If you're looking for something to do today, you can check out my election guide.
NSW council elections – the big party presence
This blog is a follow-up to my post from November 2021, which tracked where the Labor, Liberal and Greens parties had run across the Greater Sydney region from 2004 to 2021. At the end of this post I've added posts showing which Greater Sydney...
Podcast #127: The NSW Liberal nomination mess
This is a solo episode, where Ben runs through all the key parts of the story of how and where the NSW Liberal Party failed to nominate almost a third of candidates for the NSW local government elections next month, covering the scale of...
Assessing the political impact of the missing Liberals
I have been spending the last day updating my council election guides to include the full list of candidates, a summary of who is running and an assessment of the likely outcomes. I have now finished this for all of the councils where Liberals...
Podcast #126: NT election preview
Ben is joined by NT political historian Robyn Smith to preview the upcoming Northern Territory general election. We discuss the seats in play, the events of the last four years and what might be coming on election day.
This podcast is supported by the Tally...
NSW nominations day – tracking the Liberal gap
I wasn't planning to do a blog post until we had the final lists of nominations and I could do all of my usual analysis, but I have been getting a lot of questions today about the scale of the Liberal candidates missing from...