Tasmania’s system isn’t perfect, but it’s streets ahead of other states when it comes to fairness. The rest of the country should be watching and learning.
Electoral system
Kiwis voting system to go to referendum
Malcolm MacKerras has been trying to persuade New Zealand’s politicians to replace their Mixed Member Proportional electoral system with a better one.
A Tory experiment worth studying
Foreign observers shy away — with good cause — from the US’s creaky, dysfunctional electoral process. But the British example serves to remind us that primaries are also well-known in Europe.
What it takes to trigger an early election
Charles Richardson explains the nuts and bolts of triggering a double dissolution.
NZ election 2: Will Kiwis get change as well?
Whatever the system’s defects, New Zealanders at least will get the parliament that they vote for - which doesn’t, of course, mean that they’ll like it. But that’s politics for you, writes Charles Richardson.
What you may have missed along the campaign trail
And then there are all the other parties we miss out on hearing from. Crikey hasn’t yet received any media releases from Senate candidate None of the Above, but we’ve got some important campaign news we think we’d better share with you.
