This paper provides an overview of the main features of the lead-up to the 2010 federal election, the issues that animated the election campaign itself, and the emergence of a hung parliament. Key findings: The 2010 Federal election occurred in the wake of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party’s decision to remove Prime Minister Kevin Rudd...

To deter intimidation, this paper argues that election monitors should begin deployment to Aceh long before the 9 April election. Despite rhetorical commitments on the part of all contenders to a peaceful election, the potential for isolated acts of violence between now and then is high; the potential for trouble after the results are announced...

This book provides a comprehensive coverage of one of Australia’s most historic elections, which produced a hung parliament and a carefully crafted minority government that remains a heartbeat away from collapse, as well as Australia’s first elected woman Prime Minister and the Australian Greens’ first lower house Member of Parliament. The volume considers the key...

This publication provides detailed analysis of two-party and two-candidate preferred results by polling place for the 2011 New South Wales election. The publication is the latest in a series first published by the Parliamentary Library after the 1991 election, and is a companion to last year's publication "2011 New South Wales Election: Analysis of Results"...

William McMahon’s famously ill-starred prime ministership has been back in the news, not necessarily to the advantage of the federal Labor government. In Inside Story, Paul Rodan recalls the election of nearly forty years ago.