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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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Where now, Liberal Party?

It's not hard to identify the direction in which the Liberal Party needs to move. It's much harder to see any mechanism by which it is likely to.

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Charles Richardson Australia, Party matters 6 Comments 11 April 2023

PR for America?

Two American think-tanks advocate for the adoption of proportional representation as a way to cure some of the ills of the country's electoral system.

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Charles Richardson Australia, Electoral law, United States 7 Comments 6 April 2023

Aston recurs

Labor's historic victory in the Aston by-election has exposed some deep-seated problems in the opposition.

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Narrow winner, big loser

Labor has won the New South Wales election, but its chance of a majority in its own right seems to be slipping away.

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A lament for John Pesutto

Victoria's Liberal Party kneecaps its leader after he takes a stand against far-right influence in the party.

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Charles Richardson Australia, Party matters, Personalities, Political issues 14 Comments 27 March 2023

Election preview: New South Wales

Liberal premier Dominic Perrottet is facing an uphill task to retain office in tomorrow's state election, but he's still in with a chance.

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Charles Richardson Australia, Elections 1 Comment 24 March 2023

Twenty years on: an Iraq retrospective

A look back across twenty years of commentary on the Iraq war and its consequences.

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Charles Richardson Australia, Middle East, Political issues, United States, War and peace 17 Comments 20 March 202320 March 2023

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