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Ticks and crosses

Don't use ticks or crosses to vote in the Voice referendum, if only because you'll upset the "no" campaigners.

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Charles Richardson Australia, Electoral law, Referenda 2 Comments 28 August 2023

Fifty years on, 25% off

Remembering some lessons from the Whitlam government's across-the-board tariff cut of 1973.

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Charles Richardson Australia, Party matters, Political issues Leave a comment 2 August 2023

UK Labour fights over pluralism

The ALP's reluctance to co-operate with the Greens finds a stronger echo in the UK, where the electoral system makes cut-throat competition even more deadly.

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Charles Richardson Australia, British Isles, Electoral law, Europe, Party matters 2 Comments 4 July 2023

Death in Germany

Simon Crean was not a successful Labor leader, but he deserves more respect from the party than many whose record looks better on paper.

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Charles Richardson Australia, Party matters, Personalities Leave a comment 26 June 202326 June 2023

Righting the record in East Timor

East Timor is set for a new government. Meanwhile, a history of Australia's involvement sets the record straight on its route to independence.

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Charles Richardson Australia, Elections, Political issues, Referenda, South-East Asia, War and peace 2 Comments 20 June 202320 June 2023

Now for Warrandyte!

With another by-election on the horizon, Victoria's Liberal Party is confronted by the ghosts of its past.

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Charles Richardson Australia, Elections, Party matters 3 Comments 2 June 2023

The slow death of the Victorian Liberal Party

Victoria's Liberal Party is digging itself deeper into a pit of irrelevance as trust between its leader and his colleagues deteriorates further.

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Charles Richardson Australia, Media, Party matters 3 Comments 5 May 2023

How close can a referendum get?

Australia seems to be having more close elections, or at least more uncertainty on election night. Could that extend to the Indigenous "Voice" referendum?

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Charles Richardson Australia, Referenda 4 Comments 1 May 2023

New South Wales wraps up

Final results from the New South Wales state election show that the new Labor government lacks a majority in both houses.

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Charles Richardson Australia, Elections, Electoral law, Party matters 13 Comments 20 April 2023

A lesson from Canada?

Justin Trudeau celebrates ten years in the Liberal leadership, as his party's Australian namesake grapples with its continuing crisis of identity.

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Charles Richardson Australia, North America (ex-US), Party matters 4 Comments 17 April 202317 April 2023

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