171 - Victorian election catch-up

Ben is joined by Phoebe Hayman and Zareh Ghazarian to discuss the Victorian election, with a particular focus on the campaign messages and campaign tactics as a new poll puts Labor under 20% and opening up the possibility of a Coalition landslide on a third of the vote. You can now watch a video version of this podcast on Youtube. This podcast is supported by the Tally Room’s supporters on Patreon. If you find this podcast worthwhile please consider giving your support. Buy a ticket for the second live show in Melbourne. You can listen to an ad-free version of this podcast if you sign up via Patreon for $10 or more per month. And $10 donors can now join the Tally Room Discord server.

Ben is joined by James Mulrennan from The Overhang to discuss this weekend's New Zealand election - the parties, the polls and the ways in which New Zealand's electoral system might play out in circumstances very different to past elections. You can now watch a video version of this podcast on Youtube. This podcast is supported by the Tally Room’s supporters on Patreon. If you find this podcast worthwhile please consider giving your support. Buy a ticket for the second live show in Melbourne. You can listen to an ad-free version of this podcast if you sign up via Patreon for $10 or more per month. And $10 donors can now join the Tally Room Discord server.

A month out from the Victorian state election, Ben and Benita Kolovos from the Guardian discuss the last four years of Victorian politics, the issues dominating the lead-up to the election, the impact of One Nation and the race for the upper house. You can now watch a video version of this podcast on Youtube. This podcast is supported by the Tally Room’s supporters on Patreon. If you find this podcast worthwhile please consider giving your support. Buy your Tally Room merch now., or buy a ticket for the live shows in Melbourne. You can listen to an ad-free version of this podcast if you sign up via Patreon for $10 or more per month. And $10 donors can now join the Tally Room Discord server.

In the final part of 'Just Vote 1', Ben runs through how parties encouraged voters to not number preferences to get a political advantage as first One Nation and then the Greens became major sources of preferences. Ben also considers who might benefit from OPV today, and possible solutions that blend the best parts of optional and compulsory preferential voting systems. You can now watch a video version of this podcast on Youtube. This podcast is supported by the Tally Room’s supporters on Patreon. If you find this podcast worthwhile please consider giving your support. Buy your Tally Room merch now. You can listen to an ad-free version of this podcast if you sign up via Patreon for $10 or more per month. And $10 donors can now join the Tally Room Discord server.

In the second part of 'Just Vote 1', Ben looks at the history of optional preferential voting from the 1950s to the 1990s: the role of DLP preferences in keeping Labor out of power, and the Whitlam government's failed attempt to legislate for OPV in response. Then in the 1980s and 1990s, things began to change - as preferences became more favourable to Labor, the party positions changed. In the final episode, Ben will look at the rise of One Nation and tactics to encourage voters exhausting their ballots, and look at who optional preferential voting might benefit or hurt today. You can now watch a video version of this podcast on Youtube. This podcast is supported by the Tally Room’s supporters on Patreon. If you find this podcast worthwhile please consider giving your support. Buy your ticket now for the Tally Room live podcast in Melbourne on December 1. You can listen to an ad-free version of this podcast if you sign up via Patreon for $10 or more per month. And $10 donors can now join the Tally Room Discord server.

In the first in a three-party election history series about Optional Preferential Voting called 'Just Vote 1', Ben explores the rise of preferential voting - how it happened, who supported and how political self-interest explains the change. In the next two episodes, Ben will explore Labor's push for first-past-the-post and optional preferential voting in the middle of the 20th century, and how the self-interest of the parties flipped in the 1990s to the point where it's the Coalition that is now more likely to support OPV. You can now watch a video version of this podcast on Youtube. This podcast is supported by the Tally Room’s supporters on Patreon. If you find this podcast worthwhile please consider giving your support. Buy your ticket now for the Tally Room live podcast in Melbourne on December 1. You can listen to an ad-free version of this podcast if you sign up via Patreon for $8 (plus GST) or more per month. And $8 donors can now join the Tally Room Discord server.

Ben was joined by Mark Riboldi from UTS to preview this weekend's Farrer by-election, and what it might imply about the Coalition's bigger issues losing support to One Nation and independents. You can now watch a video version of this podcast on Youtube. This podcast is supported by the Tally Room’s supporters on Patreon. If you find this podcast worthwhile please consider giving your support. You can listen to an ad-free version of this podcast if you sign up via Patreon for $8 (plus GST) or more per month. And $8 donors can now join the Tally Room Discord server.

Ben was joined by Rob Manwaring to look over the results of last Saturday's South Australian state election, in particular the emergence of One Nation as a party polling higher than the Liberal Party. You can now watch a video version of this podcast on Youtube. This podcast is supported by the Tally Room’s supporters on Patreon. If you find this podcast worthwhile please consider giving your support. You can listen to an ad-free version of this podcast if you sign up via Patreon for $8 (plus GST) or more per month. And $8 donors can now join the Tally Room Discord server.

Ben was joined by Josh Sunman from Flinders University to run through the seats that could be in play on South Australia's election night and how preference distributions could become much more complex amidst a One Nation surge. You can now watch a video version of this podcast on Youtube. This podcast is supported by the Tally Room’s supporters on Patreon. If you find this podcast worthwhile please consider giving your support. You can listen to an ad-free version of this podcast if you sign up via Patreon for $8 (plus GST) or more per month. And $8 donors can now join the Tally Room Discord server.

Ben was joined by Intifar Chowdhury and Anthony Zougras to bring the podcast up to speed on South Australian politics before the state election on March 21. They discussed the decline in support for the Liberal Party, the emergence of One Nation, and Peter Malinauskas' dominance in the state. You can now watch a video version of this podcast on Youtube. This podcast is supported by the Tally Room’s supporters on Patreon. If you find this podcast worthwhile please consider giving your support. You can listen to an ad-free version of this podcast if you sign up via Patreon for $8 (plus GST) or more per month. And $8 donors can now join the Tally Room Discord server.