The Diplomat

Australia’s Preferential Voting System and Diversification of Politics

Australians are clearly seeking something more complex from their political system. Something reflective of a society with array of interests and ideas. With the Australian federal election a week ...
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Splits, fusions and evolutions: how Australia’s political parties took hold

Political parties are integral to the Australian political system, yet also largely absent from the Commonwealth Constitution itself. They are not entirely absent: a constitutional amendment in 1977 – ...
The Conversation

Sweeping reform of the electoral laws puts democracy at risk. They shouldn’t be changed on a whim

Joshua Black is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Australia Institute, and formerly a Palace Letters Fellow at the Whitlam Institute within Western Sydney University. The Albanese government is ...
The Conversation

Australian democracy is not dead, but needs help to ensure its survival

Mark Evans has received funding and in-kind support to complete democratic audits in the United Kingdom (Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust) and Australia (Museum of Australian Democracy at Old ...

Australian students just recorded the lowest civics scores since testing began. But young people do care about politics

Australian school students’ civics knowledge is the lowest it has been since testing began 20 years ago, according to new ...