Episodes
![114 - Queensland council elections preview](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/3048368/tallyroom_300x300.png)
Friday Mar 08, 2024
114 - Queensland council elections preview
Friday Mar 08, 2024
Friday Mar 08, 2024
Ben is joined by Alexis Pink from community radio station 4ZZZ and Andrew Messenger from the Guardian Australia to discuss the upcoming council elections across Queensland and the two state by-elections to be held on the same day.
We discuss the Brisbane City Council campaign and then touch on a number of other interesting council races and the by-elections.
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![113 - Let's go back to Tasmania](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/3048368/tallyroom_300x300.png)
Monday Feb 26, 2024
113 - Let's go back to Tasmania
Monday Feb 26, 2024
Monday Feb 26, 2024
Ben was joined by Stewart Jackson from the University of Sydney and Tasmanian political scientist Mike Lester to preview next month's Tasmanian state election.
We discuss the widening field of independent candidates, political events in the last term and the issues around the 25-member House that led to the expansion of the Parliament. We also briefly touch on this weekend's Dunkley by-election.
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![112 - Prabowo wins in Indonesia](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/3048368/tallyroom_300x300.png)
Monday Feb 19, 2024
112 - Prabowo wins in Indonesia
Monday Feb 19, 2024
Monday Feb 19, 2024
Ben was joined by this week by Marcus Mietzner from the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at the ANU, and the author of The Coalitions Presidents Make, to discuss Prabowo Subianto's clear victory in the first round of the Indonesian presidential election.
We discuss how Prabowo won, the shift in votes between 2019 and 2024, and the implications for how Prabowo will govern, as well as Prabowo's relationship with outgoing president Jokowi - past, present and future.
You can read the transcript for this podcast here.
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![111 - Indonesia goes to the polls](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/3048368/tallyroom_300x300.png)
Friday Feb 09, 2024
111 - Indonesia goes to the polls
Friday Feb 09, 2024
Friday Feb 09, 2024
Ben is joined by Erin Cook from Dari Mulut ke Mulut to discuss next week's national election in Indonesia. We discuss the three candidates, the role of the outgoing president Jokowi in the race, the electoral system and the role of parties in Indonesia's democracy.
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![110 - Generational gaps in Australian politics](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/3048368/tallyroom_300x300.png)
Friday Dec 08, 2023
110 - Generational gaps in Australian politics
Friday Dec 08, 2023
Friday Dec 08, 2023
Ben is joined by Shaun Ratcliff from Accent Research to discuss his recent report looking at differences in voting trends across the generations. We discuss how Millenials and Gen Z voters are much more left-wing than Baby Boomers, explore some theories as to why, and look at evidence as to which of those theories may be right. We then discuss what this implies for the next few decades of Australian politics.
Read Shaun's report at Accent Research.
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![109 - Finding the electoral sweet spot](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/3048368/tallyroom_300x300.png)
Friday Nov 24, 2023
109 - Finding the electoral sweet spot
Friday Nov 24, 2023
Friday Nov 24, 2023
Ben is joined by Dr Simon Hix from the European University Institute to discuss a paper he co-wrote with John Carey about finding the Electoral Sweet Spot: how low-magnitude proportional representation systems tend to combine the best of majoritarian and proportional systems.
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![108 - Inside a party’s redistribution submission](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/3048368/tallyroom_300x300.png)
Friday Nov 10, 2023
108 - Inside a party’s redistribution submission
Friday Nov 10, 2023
Friday Nov 10, 2023
Shane Easson has been drawing up redistribution submissions for the Australian Labor Party since 1984. This year he's not doing the Labor submission for New South Wales, although he is working on those in some other states, and he came on the podcast to talk about how it works, the things you've got to consider when writing such a submission, and whether they have any influence on the outcome.
We also discuss some of the likely outcomes of the current NSW federal redistribution and the need to change some names.
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![107 - Boundary delimitation, straight from Malaysia](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/3048368/tallyroom_300x300.png)
Monday Oct 30, 2023
107 - Boundary delimitation, straight from Malaysia
Monday Oct 30, 2023
Monday Oct 30, 2023
Today's podcast was recorded at the roundtable on Boundary Delimitation and Malapportionment in Asia and the Pacific held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on October 28-29, 2023. The event was hosted by Indonesian NGO Perludem and Malaysian organisations Bersih and Tindak Malaysia, in coordination with International IDEA.
I attended to present on Papua New Guinea's electoral boundaries and while there I recorded interviews with six of the other participants.
In this episode you'll hear from:
- Niranjan Sahoo, from India
- Heroik Pratama, from Indonesia
- Wong Chin Huat, from Malaysia
- Luie Guia, from the Philippines
- Enkhtsetseg Dagva, from Mongolia
- Adhy Aman, from International IDEA
Thanks to everyone for joining me.
Read the Kuala Lumpur Declaration on Apportionment and Boundary Delimitation.
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![106 - Voice referendum wrap-up](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/3048368/tallyroom_300x300.png)
Sunday Oct 15, 2023
106 - Voice referendum wrap-up
Sunday Oct 15, 2023
Sunday Oct 15, 2023
Ben is joined by William Bowe from the Poll Bludger to recap the results of the Voice referendum.
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![105 - Voice referendum final week](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/3048368/tallyroom_300x300.png)
Wednesday Oct 11, 2023
105 - Voice referendum final week
Wednesday Oct 11, 2023
Wednesday Oct 11, 2023
Ben is joined today by Peter Brent to wrap up the referendum campaign. We discuss the state of the polls, the relative position of the states, whether the low Yes vote can really be blamed on the state of the campaign or by the fundamental referendum trends, and what data points might line up with the results on Saturday.
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