In this detailed study, Barry Hindess from the Democratic Audit Team argues that corruption 'is a more substantial problem than Australia's impressive performance on conventional international measures would seem to indicate'.

Following an ACT Electoral Commission recommendation to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Government, the territory's Electoral Act was amended in December 2000 to permit electronic voting and counting for ACT Legislative Assembly elections. Phillip Green, the Australian Capital Territory Electoral Commissioner, reflects on the ACT's experience with electronic voting.

In this article, Sally Young, from the Media and Communications Program at the University of Melbourne, argues that money has become central to the process of political communication in Australia.

Dr James Jupp writes that an audit of the democratic rights of immigrants has found Australia does a good job of protecting citizens, but places the human rights of refugees and other non-citizens at risk. According to the report, 'Australian democracy can claim successes but must also admit failures in its implementation of a liberal...

In a paper for the Democratic Audit of Australia, Olof Petersson (Research Director for the Democratic Audit of Sweden), writes that the fear of undue influence on voters is the reason why many democracies have discussed and quite a few have decided to regulate the publication of election polls. Yet such action raises several difficult...