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The group voting tickets were released on Sunday, showing how each party will direct its preferences for votes cast above-the-line in each region for the Victorian Legislative Council. For those still catching up, this is basically the same system used for the Senate up to...

Nominations closed today for the Victorian state election. In this post I'll run through the numbers on how many people are running, and from what parties, and where. Check out this Google spreadsheet with a list of all 507 lower house candidates. Thanks to Nick Casmirri...

Nominations will close tomorrow for registered political parties running in the Victorian state election, with independents having until Friday to nominate. The Liberal Party today submitted their bulk nominations, but failed to nominate a candidate for the inner city seats of Brunswick, Melbourne, Northcote and...

Kevin Bonham and I have just put together a bonus episode to discuss the Tasmanian council elections, focusing on the results of the Hobart City Council race and the features of the Tasmanian council voting system. Read Kevin's live blog from the Tasmanian council elections...

In this episode, I talk to El Gibbs and Paddy Manning about the Victorian election, with a particular focus on inner-city Greens contests. This was the first episode recorded at the studios of 2SER radio in Sydney. Thanks to them for the help with the...

Now that we're past Wentworth, I wanted to revisit the election guides I have posted for the federal and Victorian state elections. There are a whole bunch of extra candidates on both guides (particularly Victoria), and I have also listed all the candidates in spreadsheets...

A story in the Sydney Morning Herald this morning discussed how Kerryn Phelps would keep up doing both her jobs as a City of Sydney councillor and federal MP if (as expected) she comes out the winner in last weekend's by-election. The article explores some...

Ben talked to Peter Brent in a mini-episode about yesterday's Wentworth by-election. Some links if you want to read more about the by-election: Ben's post about Sharma's recovery on pre-poll and postal votes Ben's article in the Guardian about how Sharma came back from defeat...