A major constitutional crisis was narrowly avoided in Victoria, but its cause hasn't gone away, write Alistair Harkness and Brian Costar.

ONCE a year, on the first day of February, the Australian Electoral Commission publishes, verbatim, the political finance disclosures of the political parties and of some donors and third party or lobby groups. The timeliness of this annual data dump – the figures relate to the previous financial year, making the information up to a...

Out of the clash of interests in federal parliament in 1911 came an enduring electoral reform, writes Brian Costar in Inside Story. An update is long overdue.

The figures are in: almost 3,252,000 eligible Australians didn’t cast a valid vote in last month’s election, write Brian Costar and Peter Browne in Inside Story NOW THAT the final tally for last month’s election is almost complete it’s possible get a better sense of what was different about this poll and what the implications...

IN 2004 the American journalist John Fund published a book called Stealing Elections, which contained an eye-catching claim. “At least eight of the nineteen hijackers who attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were actually able to register to vote in either Virginia or Florida while they made their deadly preparations for 9/11.” Fund’s...