Victoria’s unexpected minority

In Victoria, Steve Bracks’s minority government transformed a knife-edge win into electoral longevity and parliamentary reform, write Brian Costar and David Hayward

03 Sep 10 | Comments (0)

South Australia’s cabinet experiment

Minority government in South Australia produced a novel solution that challenged the way the Westminster system has worked in Australia, writes Norman Abjorensen

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Talking about our population

The election campaign showed how we don’t seem able to have a rational debate about population, writes Peter Mares

01 Sep 10 | Comments (0)

Doing it differently

The sudden rise to influence of the independent MPs is a challenge to the two-party system and how it’s reported, writes Peter Browne

27 Aug 10 | Comments (4)

Doing it differently

The sudden rise to influence of the independent MPs is a challenge to the two-party system and how it’s reported, writes Peter Browne

26 Aug 10 | Comments (2)

Rob Oakeshott: Why I became an independent

In this interview with Terry Lane, first broadcast on ABC Radio National’s The National Interest in 2002, Rob Oakeshott discusses why he joined the Nationals, and why he left

25 Aug 10 | Comments (0)

Rebels with a cause

The prospect of a minority federal government throws a spotlight on the quiet rise of a generation of independent MPs in state and federal parliaments. Brian Costar and Jennifer Curtin look at their motivations, role and significance

23 Aug 10 | Comments (1)

We’re all tech heads now

Broadband might have divided the major parties before the election, but there’s not going to be so much difference now, writes Jock Given

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Setting new records

Old political records keep being broken by the participants in this extraordinary election, writes Rodney Tiffen

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How Labor’s millstone became a bastion

It’s the party that changed, rather than Victoria, writes Paul Strangio

19 Aug 10 | Comments (1)