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One Nation and its Elected MPs
1+ hour, 18+ min ago (880+ words) Antony Green's Election Blog Since One Nation’s breakthrough at the 1998 Queensland election, the party has had a mixed record of maintaining parliamentary beachheads. By half way through its first term in the Queensland Parliament, the party had lost all its…...
novelty candidates – Antony Green's Election Blog
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (210+ words) Antony Green's Election Blog As I wait to hear the result of the UK’s Clacton by-election, I thought I should ponder the question of why Australia doesn’t have novelty candidates. The Clacton by-election was triggered by the resignation of Reform…...
Why Australia Doesn’t Have Novelty Candidates like Count Binface – Antony Green's Election Blog
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (564+ words) Antony Green's Election Blog As I wait to hear the result of the UK’s Clacton by-election, I thought I should ponder the question of why Australia doesn’t have novelty candidates. The Clacton by-election was triggered by the resignation of Reform…...
How GVTs Have Distorted Victorian Legislative Council Elections
1+ week, 16+ hour ago (1687+ words) Antony Green's Election Blog The Victorian Labor government’s bill to abolish group voting tickets (GVTs) for Legislative Council elections was introduced on Tuesday 28 July, passed the lower house the next day with no opposition, and will be debated in the…...
The Record of Late-Term Succession Premiers – Antony Green's Election Blog
3+ week, 1+ day ago (1118+ words) Antony Green's Election Blog Multi-term periods of party government in Australia have usually come to be associated with the leader that brought the party to office. We often call these periods of government eras. The less common type of era…...
Correcting Confusion about One Nation’s past Legal Problems
3+ week, 6+ day ago (963+ words) Antony Green's Election Blog This post is written to stop me shouting at an interview about One Nation on Radio National’s Late Night Live tonight. The discussion got into a muddle about One Nation’s registration problems after the 1998 Queensland election....
FED2026 Redistributions – South Australian Boundaries Finalised
4+ week, 2+ day ago (488+ words) Antony Green's Election Blog The South Australian redistribution of electoral boundaries has been finalised this morning. The Commission has abandoned a swap of suburbs between Kingston and Mayo, as well as the transfer of an area from Spence to O’Donoghue…...
FED2026 Redistributions – Tasmanian Boundaries Finalised
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (305+ words) Antony Green's Election Blog The new electoral boundaries for Tasmania have been released today. Reading through the proposed changes, the major changes to Clark, Franklin and Lyons in southern Tasmania have been agreed to. But there are changes in the…...
2026 – Farrer By-election – Final Count Data Released
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (776+ words) Antony Green's Election Blog This morning the AEC finalised counting for the Farrer by-election with the release of detailed preference data. It answers what I thought was a key question in the result – whether there was a difference between Liberal…...
June 2026 – Antony Green's Election Blog
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (221+ words) Antony Green's Election Blog This morning the AEC finalised counting for the Farrer by-election with the release of detailed preference data. It answers what I thought was a key question in the result – whether there was a difference between Liberal…...