Faced with the temptations of negative campaigning, can the parties respond to a steep fall in voter trust?

Election 2019 will likely be the first time in Australia's electoral history that more voters are following the campaign online than via conventional media – television, newspapers and radio.

A smaller crossbench and a few surprise wins are the likely result of the new voting system’s first half-Senate outing, writes Tim Colebatch.

Political science tells us that constituencies emerge around policy settings. The mushrooming of age-based constituencies is making tax reform difficult, with implications for intergenerational equity.

The analysis shows all five Tasmanian electorates are among the biggest losers of the government’s income tax cut plan, inner-city electorates in Sydney and Melbourne are the biggest winners, and South Australia and central and north Queensland get at least 30% per capita less than electorates in Sydney and Melbourne.