The Australian federal election season has begun and, before you head to the polls, here's a quick breakdown of how the Australian political system works so you can know exactly what you're voting ...

Australia has a preferential voting system, ... The ANU's Australian Election Study, which has run after every election since 1987, shows 56 per cent of people followed a how-to-vote card.

The Australian voting system is replete with hypocrisy. Voting before polling day is allowed with a valid excuse, but there is no check on the excuse. It is common knowledge that most people lie.

In 1918 Australian conservative politicians were confronted with a problem. Under the first past the post system used at the time, a 21-year-old Labor candidate won a by-election in Swan with 34.4 ...

This is not my only issue with the electoral system, but I should say that Australian elections are well administered. The Australian Electoral Commission does an excellent job, is generally well ...

Australia uses a ranked choice voting system, or preferential voting, as it is called in Australia. For the House of Representatives, voters need to number each candidate on the ballot in terms of ...

By this measure, Australia’s system is a disaster, particularly if we consider this latest federal result. The ALP received roughly 2.86 times the primary vote (aka, first preferences) of the ...

Preferential voting system ousts half a Liberal ministry of talent. Opposition Leader Sussan Ley could be forgiven for staring forlornly at the long list of frontbench-quality Liberals who have ...

Eminence Advisory’s Dimitri Burshtein discusses compulsory preferential voting in Australia, reflecting on the problems associated with the system. “Democracy is meant to represent something ...

In a small-scale study, they asked 298 Australian voters if they would use a mobile-based e-voting system if it was made available. Of those, 75 per cent said yes and only 15 per cent said they ...

Sky News host Rowan Dean analyses the results of the federal election, arguing that Australia's "idiotic" compulsory preferential voting system has given Labor a "dangerous" amount of power.