It's Australia Day in Australia – or was that two days ago? It's become an intractable problem.
Category: Australia
2018 in review
Looking back on the key elections of 2018 reveals an intriguing mix, with democracy recording some notable wins as well as losses.
Victoria’s very strange upper house
Victoria's Legislative Council again falls badly short of the proportional representation that it was supposed to achieve. Unscrupulous preference deals are only part of the story.
Victoria wraps up
Final lower house results from the Victorian election show the size of Labor's win and the distortions of the electoral system.
It’s 2002 all over again – or is it?
The Labor Party in Victoria has won only its second landslide in 60 years. There are interesting comparisons to be made with the first one.
Another Trumpist goes down
Victoria's Labor government comfortably wins re-election, in a striking repudiation of its opposition's turn to the right.
Election preview: Victoria
Victorian voters seem poised to give their Labor government a second term, although the opposition is not entirely without hope.
Another look at Victorian odds
As the Victorian state election approaches, there's been quite a bit of movement in the betting odds – some of it surprising.
Brexit, or how not to do democracy
Theresa May's government is teetering, with little prospect of getting its Brexit plan through parliament. Is there a better way this could have all been handled?
“Election” preview: Fiji
Fiji goes to the polls tomorrow, still ruled by the man who uprooted its democracy 12 years ago. Australia should hang its head in shame.
The World is Not Enough 