Category Archives: Electorates
Another way to look at electorates
Have you ever watched Parliament on TV and heard the speaker say “the Member for Chifley has the call” and wondered, who is the member for Chifley (Ed Husic) and where is Chifley (NSW)? What about which seat is the most marginal (Corangamite, held by the Labor party by 0.28%), covers the most land-area (Durack, […]
Independent Citizen Journalism and September – Is It Possible?
We are now 4 months away from an election many of us dread – not necessarily because of the possibility of an Abbott Government, but more because this may well be the dumbest, most intelligence insulting election in living memory. Even more so than 2004, where the entire campaign seemed to be about Mark Latham’s […]
Safety Trampolines, One World Government and Giving People a Reason To Join A Party – The Whitlam Institute gives time for Thought
On this May Day that has passed, the University of Western Sydney’s Whitlam Institute organised a political forum called It’s My Party, as a part of the Behind the Lines exhibition that is being hosted at Parramatta’s Riverside Theatres. Labor’s John Faulkner, the Liberals’ Joe Hockey and the Greens’ Bob Brown were invited to outlay […]
State of Play – Western Australia
Perusing the social and economic landscape of Western Australia uncovers a few unexpected similarities between Australia’s largest state and its smallest. In 1933 Sir Walter Lee, Tasmanian Minister for Lands and Works, declared Tasmania had much in common with Western Australia, especially when it came to their mutual dissatisfaction with Federation. It’s become quite a […]
The state of the State – Tasmania
In our continuing State-by-State examination of the political landscape Damien Walker looks at his home State of Tasmania and finds the Liberal party will have to overcome entrenched Labor support if it is to be successful this September. When Paul Keating described the Senate as “unrepresentative swill” he quite probably had Tasmania’s level of representation […]
The State (Territory) of Play – ACT
Canberra celebrates its centenary this month; the hot air balloons are sailing above Lake Burley Griffin, there’s been festivals and light shows and while the rest of the country has been trudging on through the darkening days of autumn, the Nation’s Capital has been in party mode. Canberra isn’t exactly known for it’s frivolity and […]
The State of Play – NSW
“This election will be decided in Western Sydney.” Labor’s NSW Secretary Sam Dastyari, 26 February 2013 Well, sort of. The definition of “Western Sydney” varies widely depending on exactly what point you’re trying to make and what your vested interest is. But there can be no argument that Labor has some marginal seats there – […]
The State of Play – NT
Electoral analysis is a whole different ball-game in the Northern Territory. Until the year 2000, the Northern Territory was only one electorate. For complicated constitutional and electoral reasons, that representative did not even have full voting rights until 1968. The territory has two representatives in the House of Representatives, and two Senators, with the Senators […]
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