This book assesses Australian electoral reforms of the past 30 years using personal interview data and parliamentary debates. Australia has a proud history of being an international leader in electoral administration, and Australian electoral commissions continue to have a professional, non-partisan approach to the management of elections. Yet their independence is constrained by the electoral...

Apart from an unexpectedly strong performance by the Bill and Ben Party, the NZ election result more or less matched expectations, writes NORM KELLY on our partner website, Inside Story.

New Zealand’s voting system means that predicting a winner is never simple. On our partner website, Inside Story, Norm Kelly looks at the field.

The Nationals and the Greens were the star performers last Saturday in Western Australia, writes Norm Kelly.

The election of a new government means an opportunity to fix some of the things that have been going wrong with Australia’s electoral system. Australia has been making it harder to enrol and vote, and easier for private money to influence electoral outcomes. Read the Audit's priorities for electoral reform.