By Kim on August 31, 2010
The name of the game at the moment in Canberra is the competition between claims to “legitimacy” – a new concept in Australian politics, it would seem, as no one, I think, ever suggested John Howard should not form a [...]
Posted in federal election 2010 | Tagged AEC, Antony Green, Federal Election 2010, hung parliament, Peter Brent, Tony Abbott, two party preferred, William Bowe |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 26, 2010
Counting continues in the close seats of Brisbane, Hasluck and Corangamite. Hasluck is looking like falling to the Liberals, and Corangamite being retained by the ALP. So, Brisbane may be the last seat in contention, and also the knife edge [...]
Posted in Brisbane, federal election 2010 | Tagged AEC, Arch Bevis, australian electoral commission, Brisbane, Federal Election 2010, hung parliament, provisional votes, Teresa Gambaro |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 1, 2010
The AEC has released the Senate group preference tickets online. For those who might not be aware of how this works, if you vote “above the line” (that is, if you put a 1 in one of the parties’ or [...]
Posted in federal election 2010 | Tagged AEC, ALP, Democrats, Family First, Federal Election 2010, greens, group preference tickets, liberals, preferences, Senate, Steve Fielding, Victoria |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 12, 2009
The Australian Democrats lost their last sitting MP last week, when South Australian Upper House MP David Winderlich resigned from the party. Andrew Bartlett wrote about this milestone at Crikey’s The Stump, and on his own blog. Now it appears [...]
Posted in Politics, Sociology | Tagged AEC, andrew bartlett, Australian Democrats, David Winderlich, deregistration, electoral commission, One Nation, Pauline Hanson, political culture, political parties, political sociology, Queensland, Sociology, South Australia |
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