• Antony Green

13 January 2010The election will probably be held between mid-July and mid-September this year, writes Antony Green

WITH A FEDERAL election due in 2010, an analysis of available dates points to the election being held between mid-July and mid-September.

While the defeat of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme legislation last November allows the Rudd government to call an earlier double dissolution election, constitutional issues point to the government delaying an election until after 1 July 2010.

Constitutional timing issues make the seven Saturdays between 7 August and 18 September the most likely dates. On these seven dates, the government is free to choose between calling a normal House and Half-Senate election, or to use the deadlock provisions in Section 57 of the Commonwealth Constitution to hold a double dissolution for the House and the whole of the Senate...

Reads the full article on Antony Green's Election Blog

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