Some voters in Australia’s compulsory voting system purposefully spoil their ballots, but a new assessment suggests that most just don’t understand the complex system and make mistakes. A significant ...

There has been an insufferable degree of smugness of late in the chatting classes about Australia’s electoral system. A special for Australian Broadcasting Corporation produced by veteran journalist ...

Australia is perceived as a country weathering the current global degradation of democracy well. Its systems of compulsory and ranked choice voting, combined with a national disposition that is ...

As we tick closer and closer to Victoria's state election in November, a flurry of new parties has been racing to join the contest, planning to take advantage of an archaic aspect of the electoral ...