This report provides a comprehensive assessment of the funding of New South Wales local government election campaigns and makes a series of recommendations for change. The report examines the distinctive structure of NSW local government and its electoral system, the regulation and patterns of election funding at this level of government, the risks posed by...

The periodic redrawing of electoral boundaries is required by law to maintain electoral divisions of roughly equal enrolment size within a state or territory. Redrawing of boundaries is known as a redistribution. During the expected life of the 43rd Parliament there will be redistributions in Victoria and South Australia because of the seven year provision...

The Electoral Commissioner, Ed Killesteyn today released a report into the irregular handling of pre-poll votes by electoral officials in the Division of Boothby and the Division of Flynn leading to the exclusion of these votes in final election counting in the 2010 election. The incidents involved the premature opening of ballot-boxes by electoral officials...

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...

Labor is still deciding who will review its election performance. In Inside Story, Rodney Tiffen starts the ball rolling…