Every three years, same date: is there value in fixed term federal elections? It would cut out all the “will he, won’t he ” on whether PM Kevin Rudd will call an early election.
Fixed term elections
Territory set to sail uncharted constitutional waters
The upheaval in the Northern Territory government could result in the first constitutional test of Australia’s move to fixed-term Parliaments, says the ABC’s resident wonk Antony Green. Will the NT ALP sit it out until 2012, or play some tricky numbers games to wrangle an early election?
