Australia's democratic system is unlike any other on Earth. As a nation, we sort of vaguely understand this, and take a generalised pride in the triennial democracy sausage, and the beige, competent ...

A world-first study involving 4,000 Australian adults shows political parties shouldn’t assume Indigenous candidates will ...

(Australian Ballot) Article 3. Shall the voters authorize the Town of Northfield to establish a reserve fund called Grant Matching Reserve for the purpose of providing local matching funds for grants ...

About 2,000 missing ballot papers that went missing on election night have been found in the home of a temporary Australian Electoral Commission worker. The AEC revealed that a worker collected 1,866 ...

NORTHFIELD — Residents have voted to move all annual town business to Australian ballot, effectively ending Northfield's in-person town meeting after over 200 years. Much of the town's business, ...

Piles of ballot papers were left unsealed as people came and went during a regional council’s local government election last ...

The great American writer and wit Mark Twain is credited with the well-known aphorism: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” The rejection of the Socialist Equality Party ...

Millions of Australians are still deciding how they'll vote in the federal election on May 3 and at least a handful will cast a 'donkey vote'. Some will do this intentionally, while others will cast ...

Anxious Townsville residents still awaiting their postal ballot for the Townsville mayoral by-election have been told to ...