The 2025 election has produced some extremely close seat results. Here’s what happens when there’s just a handful of votes in play.
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Want to see how many women vs men there are in the new House of Reps? How many MPs under 40 or 60+? And how your state or territory voted? Get the full picture here.
As vote counting continues, one Teal independent has lost their seat, with other races still too close to call.
Some contests are so close it may be some time before a result is confirmed.
From corflutes and how-to-vote cards to 250,000 pencils, 240,000 volunteer vests and 80,000 ballot boxes, here’s what happens to election materials after polling day.
Popular Chinese apps WeChat and RedNote are a tool for political campaigning – but such content is banned. Here’s how parties work around it, including by avoiding proper disclosures.
Here’s how to navigate federal ballot papers. In this practice election, it’s farm animals battling for your vote.
Politicians are on the campaign trail in real life and online. Can they win their way to parliament, one piece of Gen Z slang at a time?
Australia must go to the polls to vote in a referendum on an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. Some of us have never voted in a referendum, here’s what you need to know.
While the ‘yes’ case relies on the authority of experts, the ‘no’ case hopes that sheer weight of arguments will win votes.
The official pamphlets for the ‘yes’ and ‘no’ cases for the Voice referendum will be released on Tuesday
In this podcast, Michelle and Minister of State Don Farrell discuss the governments sweeping changes to electoral laws, countering misinformation and what now for the Housing Australia Future Fund
The Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters, in its interim report tabled on Monday, recommends donation and spending caps apply to third parties and associated entities.
Having most Australian adults gather at polling booths seems like a COVID disaster waiting to happen. What measures are in place and how can you limit your risk?
Australia’s compulsory voting laws undermine the arguments for requiring voters to produce identification.
It is likely in future we will see more, not less, unsolicited text messaging — and not just in politics.
A good political donation disclosure system would close the loopholes that allow major donors to hide, while protecting the privacy of small donors.
As for his racism and anti-Semitism, Bean’s attitudes on race changed in later years. He conceded he’d been wrong about Monash. In the 1940s he supported the idea of a Jewish refuge in Australia.
The annual February festival of lampooning the largest visible donor lulls Australians into a false sense of security that there is a functioning political donations disclosure regime in place.
Check out our interactives showing the total donations to Australia’s major parties in 2015-16, who the biggest donors to the parties were, and how donations to parties have changed in recent years.
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