The man responsible for ending the possibility of Bob Katter abbreviating his Katter’s Australian Party name to “Australian Party” is David Doe, a man who has been highly active in the video games censorship debate, writes Angela Priestley.
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The search for Hanson’s Rattner rolls on
Crikey’s conversation with Pauline Hanson’s lawyer Peter Lowe was cut prematurely short when he asked: “Who are you? You could be Michael Rattner. The question is: who are you?”
Crikey Says: The Hanson prank is funny to a point
The Pauline Hanson plot thickens.
Miners big on donations, but not on disclosure
Several companies and individuals have been identified in Liberal and Labor documents as making donations, but were not recorded on the AEC website as having made any returns, as they’re required to do.
Mayne on donations: Vic Libs still richest political division in the country
The Victorian Liberals clearly remain the richest political division in the country. No one else can claim to own $50 million worth of shares.
Future of the National Tally Room again in doubt
While its seven metre-high board of polling figures and swarm of electoral officials may have come to symbolise Australian suffrage, the future of the National Tally Room as the centre of election night may again be in doubt after ABC election numbers guru Antony Green ran into technology issues on Saturday night which meant he could not receive data or offer predictions.
Wankley Awards: The Latham/Henderson double act
This week’s Wankley goes to a dual bout of disingenuousness between the upstanding director of the Sydney Institute, Gerard Henderson and fellow Fairfax columnist and former Liverpool Mayor Mark Latham.
Crikey Says: Help Crikey dig through the political donations data
Every January, Crikey pres over the AEC’s annual political donations data to see what we can dig up. This year, we want your help.
What’s Australia’s real voter turnout?
The paradox of automatic voter enrollment is that once we have a more comprehensive electoral roll, the official turnout rate will drop. So while we currently rank as the country with the highest voter turnout, our numbers are likely to go down. Peter Brent does the maths.
Antony Green: Automatic enrollment is good electoral management
Antony Green defends the NSW Electoral Commission’s move to automatically enroll 18-year-olds to vote: it’s an efficient policy, and one the AEC should adopt.
Have NSW political donors failed to disclose donations?
A number of NSW political donors may have failed to disclose the full extent of their political donations, a comparison of NSW and Commonwealth electoral disclosure data shows.
Former high flying businesses among biggest political donors
Amid a veritable plethora of corporate donations, a couple stand out from the list of media, property, coal and resource and Asian groups on the list, writes Glenn Dyer.
Too close to call? The count continues
They think it’s all over? Well it isn’t … yet. The Australian Electoral Commission still has nine electorates on its Close Seats list., writes Christian Kerr.
What did the AEC say about electoral law changes? Don’t ask
We can’t tell you what our advice to the government was because it might be controversial. Essentially, that’s the response from the Australian Electoral Commission to a Freedom of Information request I made earlier this year, writes Peter Browne, editor of Australian Policy Online.
Your vote returned to sender?
Many Australians will be denied their vote this year – and that’s not just under-eighteens, foreigners, prisoners and pets – and a number of those will only find out when they front up to a booth on election day to flex their democratic muscle, writes GetUp!’s Ed Coper.
AEC fumbles Exclusive Brethren probe
This week, a story in the Adelaide local press sheds light on the role of the Exclusive Brethren in the lead-up to the last federal election, and includes information that the AEC had apparently not found, or not considered relevant.
