Nominations closed on Tuesday for the two Queensland state by-elections and the Queensland council elections, all to be held on March 16. I have now updated my candidate lists for my Brisbane City, Inala and Ipswich West guides.
For this post I’m most interested in the nominations for the City of Brisbane. I have some other thoughts about nominations in other councils which I might return to in coming days.
It has been looking more and more likely that Tasmania would be going to an election in recent weeks, with the premier, Jeremy Rockliff, demanding new assurances from two ex-Liberal independents and threatening to go to an election if those demands weren’t met.
Ben is joined by Erin Cook from Dari Mulut ke Mulut to discuss next week’s national election in Indonesia. We discuss the three candidates, the role of the outgoing president Jokowi in the race, the electoral system and the role of parties in Indonesia’s democracy.
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To complete my set of election guides for 2024 and 2025, I’ve just finished my guide to the 2025 Western Australian state election.
The guide features profiles of all 59 lower house races and the new first ever statewide upper house election.