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Come along to next week’s event in Sydney

April 2, 2025 - 12:00 -- Admin

I’ll be speaking at an event next week in Sydney as a preview for the federal election.

The event is hosted by my employer GovConnex along with FTI Consulting.

We’ll be previewing the election and discussing prospects for a possible hung parliament. There will be an opportunity to ask questions followed by drinks.

Tickets are free but there is limited capacity and I expect the venue to fill up.

2025 federal candidate update

April 1, 2025 - 12:00 -- Admin

We’re less than two weeks away from nominations closing for the federal election – nominations will close on Thursday 10 April, and will be announced the next day.

Yesterday I made a bunch of updates to my list of House of Representatives candidates, and have now finished updating each of my election guides with the new lists.

Port Macquarie by-election live

March 15, 2025 - 18:00 -- Admin

6:00 – Polls have just closed for the by-election for the New South Wales state seat of Port Macquarie, covering one of the larger regional cities on the mid north coast.

I’m out tonight so probably won’t be live-blogging much, but you can discuss the results here and I might drop in a little bit.

WA needs a JSCEM

March 14, 2025 - 14:39 -- Admin

Over the last few years I have had the privilege of making submissions and then appearing before parliamentary inquiries reviewing the conduct of the most recent federal election and the most recent state elections in New South Wales and Victoria.

WA’s upper house counting in the dark

March 13, 2025 - 12:00 -- Admin

We have a lot of information about how the count is going for the Legislative Assembly in Western Australia – there’s a few close races, and places where we’re waiting for full distributions of preferences, but the information is reasonably clear.

Unfortunately there’s a lot less useful data for the Legislative Council, and there’s bunch of ways in which the data reporting is falling short of what we’ve got in other states using similar electoral systems.

Assessing the WA landslide

March 9, 2025 - 15:45 -- Admin

For this post I wanted to put together a bunch of my thoughts the day after the WA election. I will be recording a podcast this afternoon and I hope to get it out before the end of the day.

Firstly, let’s zoom out and look at the scale of the result.

Labor won 41 seats out of 59 at the 2017 election, alongside 18 Liberals and Nationals. The 2021 result saw Labor win 53 seats, to just six for the conservative parties.

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