Third-party ads are a relatively recent, unregulated and potentially influential feature of political debate in Australia, writes Graeme Orr.

Primaries might work in the United States, but that doesn’t mean they’ll translate easily to Australia, argues Graeme Orr.

GetUp! has scored an unexpected victory in the High Court, giving an extra 100,000 people a chance to vote on 21 August and opening up the debate about the right to vote, writes Graeme Orr.

The virtues of governmental diversity got lost in the debate about Kevin Rudd’s hospital policy, writes Graeme Orr.

In the wake of the High Court’s decision on prisoner enfranchisement, Graeme Orr describes the issue of prisoner disenfranchisement as a continuing ‘political football’ in this new paper.