Showing posts with label Senate reform. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Senate reform. Show all posts
Monday, October 27, 2025

False Declaration: Minor Right Nonsense About Senate Reform

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Huge if true, but ... Recently my attention was drawn to an article on the Canberra Declaration website by one Dave Pellowe.  Pellowe is bet...
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Saturday, May 31, 2025

2025 Senate Notes Part One

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This is the latest in a string of articles that I write after each Senate election tracking certain themes in the Senate races.  Previous vo...
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Monday, June 17, 2024

Ralph Babet Was Elected Fair And Square. I Know It's Hard But Try To Deal With It

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For the avoidance of any doubt at all, I'll start with my view of the subject of this article.  Most of what I see of United Australia P...
Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Senate Reform Performance Review And Senate Notes 2022

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The results of this year's half-Senate election are all in so it's time to observe how our still relatively new Senate system perfor...
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Friday, April 1, 2022

"Reignite Democracy" Cooks Up Some Senate Preference Myths

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Yesterday my attention was drawn to a flier that had been circulated by Reignite Democracy Australia , a fringe right anti-mandates group, a...
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Thursday, June 20, 2019

Senate Reform Performance Review 2019

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The results of this year's half-Senate election are all in so it is time to observe how our new Senate system performed at its first hal...
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Friday, May 3, 2019

Senate Voting: Another Poor Article By Richard Denniss

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It's a shame to have to be distracted from more important things (like counting all the candidate malfunctions this election) in order t...
Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Group Ticket Voting Wrecks 2018 Victorian Upper House Election

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The buttons have been pressed on the Victorian upper house election.  In the end, none of the results were all that close, and all regions ...
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Thursday, June 29, 2017

Will The Future See An Even Bigger Senate Crossbench?

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It's a long way from the next Senate election to be talking about the future of the Senate, and also a strange time to be doing it with ...
Saturday, March 4, 2017

Groundhog Day: Group Ticket Nonsense Returns To WA

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Glenn Druery will not say exactly what he's been paid to help micro-parties use preference-harvesting to win Upper House seats they don...
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Saturday, January 28, 2017

Unicameral By Stealth: Tony Abbott's Senate Referendum Call

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The Australian ( Tony Abbott calls for Senate referendum, warns 'we are turning into Italy ') reports that relevance-deprived ex-PM ...
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Thursday, January 5, 2017

2016 Ehrlich Awards For Wrong Predictions

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It's time for the fifth annual giving of the Ehrlich Awards , which round the start of each year go to the most amusingly or staggeringl...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2016

SA's Voter Choice Bill Could Be Better

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Earlier this year, the Australian federal parliament successfully passed Senate voting reform, which abolished the Group Voting Tickets that...
Monday, August 8, 2016

Senate Reform Performance Review Part 2

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In this piece I continue the roundup of the performance of the new Senate voting system that I started in part 1 .  Part 1 covered proportio...
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Saturday, August 6, 2016

Senate Reform Performance Review Part 1

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The results of the Senate election are all in and so it is timely to review how the new Senate system performed in full detail.  No system s...
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Monday, August 1, 2016

Gaynor's Clueless Call For Senate Recount

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A reader today drew my attention to this piece by Bernard Gaynor claiming apparent irregularities in the Tasmanian Senate count, and callin...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Tasmania Senate 2016 Button Press And Analysis

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Result Order 1 Abetz (Lib) 2 Urquhart (ALP) 3 Whish-Wilson (Green) 4 Lambie (JLN) 5 Parry (Lib) 6 Polley (ALP) 7 Duniam (Lib) 8 Brown (ALP)...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2016

2016 Tasmania Senate: A Model Of What Might Occur

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Button press imminent - results and discussion will be posted on a new thread.   Thanks all for the comments - this has been the most comme...
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Wednesday, July 6, 2016

2016 Senate Postcount: A Very Long Way Still To Go

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This thread contains some general comments about the overall state of the Senate race and the campaign.  There is one thing I want to make c...
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Friday, June 17, 2016

List of Senate How-To-Vote Card Preferences

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Introduction This is a resource piece that will be updated as information comes to hand.  It is simply a list of the Senate preference re...
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