Casey Briggs

1 week ago | caseybriggs.substack.com | Casey Briggs

The period after an election is always a funny little time. The winners are getting on with it, the losers are licking their wounds and lashing out at each other, and the world is moving on, even as the final figures and seats continue to dribble in. Folks, the election ain't over yet! On the personal front, I have at least had some days off and returned to relatively normal sleeping hours, so that's something.

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Casey Briggs

The Liberal Party has retained the seat of Monash, the ABC projects. Mary Aldred will be the next member for the Victorian seat, defeating Russell Broadbent, who became an independent after losing Liberal preselection. The seat has been in doubt because there are no candidates with more than a third of the first preference vote, and it had not been clear which two candidates would be the final two in the count.

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Casey Briggs

Greens MP Elizabeth Watson-Brown has held onto her inner-Brisbane seat of Ryan, the ABC projects. On the current count, the LNP's Maggie Forrest leads on first preferences with around 35 per cent of the vote. The LNP will not win from this position. But it has not been clear whether Ms Watson-Brown or Labor's Rebecca Hack will finish second after the exclusion of the other five candidates.

4 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Casey Briggs |Simon Elvery |Julian Fell |Ben Spraggon

Labor took the glory in last weekend's election, but beneath the surface an ongoing trend in how Australia votes has quietly carried on. The major parties' primary vote has, once again, fallen. In fact, there is a strong chance that the combined independent and minor party vote will beat one of the major parties for the first time in seven decades. On a simple two-sided political axis, most seats swung left towards Labor last Saturday.

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Casey Briggs

Anthony Albanese has entered the Labor pantheon. While the count is still preliminary, Labor looks to have beaten the two-party-preferred result of Kevin Rudd in 2007 (52.7 per cent), of Bob Hawke in 1983 (53.2 per cent), Gough Whitlam in 1972 (52.7 per cent) and Ben Chifley in 1946 (54.1 per cent). Rudd, Hawke, Whitlam, Chifley. A list of Labor greats that Albanese would be happy to rub shoulders with.