Geoff Anderson and Haydon Manning review the election and analyse the Rann government’s commitment to abolishing the upper house and inclusion of non-Labor members in Cabinet. They also examine South Australia’s unique electoral redistribution formula.

The Australian Electoral Commissioner has abruptly changed a long-standing policy, potentially preventing tens of thousands of Australians exercising their right to vote at federal elections, according to Brian Costar and Peter Browne.

With the South Australian poll just days away, Geoff Anderson and Haydon Manning make their predictions.

Andrew Leigh finds that, on average, 63 per cent of trade union members vote for the Australian Labor Party. Despite the fact that union membership declined from around one-half of the workforce in the early-1980s to one-quarter of the workforce in the early-2000s, unionists have not become more pro-Labor. He finds that male unionists were...

In this article, Geoff Anderson and Haydon Manning find that although Labor is well in the lead, the SA Premier is avoiding anything resembling a risk.