In the 2022 federal election, two demographics were key to the final outcome: women and young people. With another election fast approaching, will they swing the result again? To answer this question, I turned to the Australian Election Study (AES) data spanning the period from 1987 to 2022, to investigate how different demographics have […]
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The Australian Labor Party would secure only 29% of the primary vote if a federal election were held today, new data shows. This marks the lowest percentage of Australians choosing Labor as their first preference in any federal election since the country’s inception in 1901, according to political polling results […]
Australia recently held a historic referendum, the first in nearly 25 years, for a Voice to Parliament, a mechanism aimed at amplifying the voices of First Peoples in shaping the nation’s political landscape. Voting “yes” would have meant officially acknowledging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the nation’s original […]
As Australians gear up for the 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum on Saturday, a cloud of controversy looms over the “Yes” campaign’s use of pushy text messages to influence voters. The messages, which urge voters to vote “Yes”, have drawn criticism for their perceived attempt to sway opinions. The text […]
