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National Affairs Hot country, frozen document Graeme Orr 16 October 2023 Would voluntary voting on referendum proposals help thaw the Constitution? National Affairs The unforgiving logic of Labor referendums Peter Brent 16 October 2023 Despite the Yes campaign’s best efforts, Saturday’s vote followed the referendum playbook National Affairs Timing, and other referendum obstacles Peter Brent 29 September 2023 History shows that the merits of the question are secondary considerations in any referendum vote National Affairs No diversion unticked Peter Brent 31 August 2023 A more responsible party leader wouldn’t have joined in a ridiculous debate about ticks and crosses

International Small force, great weight Benjamin Reilly 27 November 2020 Could preferential voting be an “Archimedean lever of change” for American politics? Correspondents America’s electoral counter-revolution Nicole Hemmer 19 October 2020 What the Republican Party is attacking is democracy itself National Affairs A complex compulsion to vote Peter Brent 13 October 2020 Australians are more likely to vote than their international counterparts — but does that mean the system should stay as it is? International Trump’s generation gap Lesley Russell 8 September 2020 Young voters look like playing a bigger role than usual in this year’s election

National Affairs Can you feel it? Peter Brent 18 May 2019 Election 2019 | Will the skittish commentariat be vindicated tonight? National Affairs A matter of preferences John Quiggin 17 May 2019 Election 2019 | The two-party-preferred count is a relic of an era in which the major parties were overwhelmingly dominant National Affairs Labor’s nightmare (and other preference puzzles) Peter Brent 7 May 2019 Election 2019 | Voters’ rankings could count in ways that aren’t clear in the polls National Affairs On a roll with the AEC Peter Brent 3 May 2019 Election 2019 | The Australian Electoral Commission’s success in boosting voter enrolments has created its own problem