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2013 Federal Election: Minor Parties Take 2

Well we’re a week out and for those considering voting below the line I’ve already covered most of the minor parties (and Antony Green has an excellent guide to below the line voting here) However there’s a whole bunch of single issue parties to add to the menagerie of minor parties running on the NSW

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2013 Federal Election: Minor Parties Vote Compass

The minor parties on offer on the NSW Senate Ticket (45 columns and 110 candidates) vary considerably. We have the wingnut right represented by the Rise Up Australia Party: The wingnut left represented by the Socialist Equality Party: And the just plain wingnut represented by the Palmer United Party (sadly the tinfoil hat wearing Citizen’s

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ILHC and Electoral Systems

Well it’s been nearly 6 months since my last post here and I thought I should get it back going again. I was going to post something about teaching swing dance in Nepal, a recipe for vegetable curry or something similarly relevant but then the ILHC scores came out. Now for those of you who

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The Canadian Election: Why they need preferential voting

I like Canada and I like elections (it’s my largest tag word at the moment, which I should really do something about). Canada had an election a couple of days ago hence I shall discuss. For a country considered fairly liberal the political system is somewhat backward. The Senate is not elected (and there have

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NSW State Election Contests: The Wash

It’s taken some time but all the results are finally in. Time to review the contests I previewed. The Legislative Council After what ended up coming down to what Green’s candidate Jeremy Buckingham described as a ‘neck and redneck battle‘ the final results are in. Thankfully Pauline Hanson, despite getting a surprising portion of the

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NSW State Election Contests: The Swing

This is the final in my series of NSW State Election Contests posts, previewing the interesting contests for election watchers beyond the obvious conclusion of the poll. I’ll be back after March 26 to make more commentary. In this post I’ll examine the swing. What is the swing?For those Lindy Hoppers out there I’m not

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NSW State Election Contests: The Side Contests

Just because the election is all but a foregone conclusion doesn’t mean there still aren’t some exciting contests happening. I’ve put together a list of electorates to watch on the evening of the 26th. They won’t change the result of this election but could set up an interesting contest in 2015 with the rise of

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NSW State Election Contests: The Legislative Council

The outcome of the upcoming NSW State Election seems to be done and dusted. You might think that for a politics-watcher and self-confessed election geek there might be nothing in it for me. But you’d be wrong. There’s a number of contests that will shape the course of politics in the state, some for the

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Working Families?

With a state election in NSW in the next few weeks and a federal election one by-election away we’re again being bombarded with political commercials. Here’s a few for sampling: NSW Labor’s “Fairness for Families”     NSW Liberal’s spoof of the above (which gets points for comedy) And (because it features Zombies) my favourite

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