Australian Federal Elections

Politics & Society
Analysis
Will the 2025 election result spark a realignment of climate politics in Australia?
The second-term Albanese government will be under strong international and domestic pressures to step up its efforts to decarbonise the economy. It has the numbers, so will it happen?

Politics & Society
Analysis
Will the 2025 election result spark a realignment of climate politics in Australia?
The second-term Albanese government will be under strong international and domestic pressures to step up its efforts to decarbonise the economy. It has the numbers, so will it happen?

Politics & Society
Opinion
The Australian Opposition’s electoral woes will get worse before they get better
Focusing on the ‘Trump-lite’ policies of the Liberal Party obscures the deep structural issues it faces

Politics & Society
Opinion
Like Canada, Australia has rejected Trump’s disruption
Many Australians saw this Federal election as a referendum on the country’s future in a world re-shaped by Donald Trump. Labor’s confident win is a data point in a global realignment

Politics & Society
Analysis
Disinformation damages democracy, but perhaps not in the way you think
Many Australians are aware of the influence of misinformation and disinformation on elections, but there are more insidious ways it harms our democratic society

Sciences & Technology
The Australian research helping to verify US election results
In an era of increasing digitisation of electoral processes, Australian researchers have developed an algorithm to make democracy more accountable

Environment
Australia’s new government must tackle food insecurity
Australia needs to boost its capacity to weather shocks to our food security. And that’s why we need a Minister for Food

Politics & Society
Broken parachutes
The 2022 election is yet another sign that the days of ‘parachuted in’ star power are over – voters want candidates with grassroots

Politics & Society
Fifty shades of teal
The independent “teal” candidates have shaken up the 2022 Australian election campaign, but there are plenty of idiosyncrasies among them

Politics & Society
Using design to put voters at the heart of elections
Digital technologies give us the opportunity to transform voting to better engage people in the electoral system