Stephen Barber and Andrew Kopras take recently published postcode taxation statistics and aggregate them to an electorate basis. Summary information on such items as taxpayers, taxable income, tax paid and net tax ratio are shown for each electorate in Australia. Six tables ranking the electorates by various taxation categories are provided as well as two...

In this audit Graeme Orr assesses key aspects of Australia's electoral systems against the ideal of political equality. Political equality means formal equality (treating people equally as electors), and it requires systems that are representative and inclusive, accessible to all and competitive (so that elections are open to outsiders and newcomers, not just to incumbents).

This Research Note explains how the US Presidency is decided.

Discrimination based on disability has, for some time, been illegal and intolerable. Why then, asks Bryan Mercurio, do we allow such discrimination to continue at the ballot box, where disabled and illiterate Australians must abandon their right to vote in secrecy, an absolute right held in the highest regard in a democratic system, even though...

In this paper Antony Green summarises results for the election of 21 members to the New South Wales Legislative Council. The 2003 election was the first conducted under changes to the electoral system that made it virtually impossible for parties to engage in preference deals. While the new voting system retained the 'above the line'...