Rodney Tiffen outlines Inside Story’s guide to seventy years of parties, polling and politics.

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

The Victorian Parliamentary Budget Office prepared 1044 independent election policy costing responses for the 2018 general election costing period.

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.

While it seems unlikely that unaware members of the public will face big fines from the AEC for their political Facebook posts, voters, donors and campaigners should familiarise themselves with the new rules, writes Damon Muller.