Electoral integrity is not always automatic

By Dr Ferran Martinez I Coma and Rodney Smith
Updated April 7 2016 - 10:41am, first published 10:38am
ELECTION ISSUES: A double dissolution election would increase the micro parties' slim chances and almost certainly boost the representation of the Nick Xenophon Group. A study has shown Australia needs to improve its electoral integrity processes.
ELECTION ISSUES: A double dissolution election would increase the micro parties' slim chances and almost certainly boost the representation of the Nick Xenophon Group. A study has shown Australia needs to improve its electoral integrity processes.

Australian politics is in an unsettled and unsettling period. Some of this instability has been obvious, typified by the Turnbull-Abbott and Rudd-Gillard-Rudd carousels of the past six years. Leading the electoral victory charge from opposition no longer means an automatic period as prime minister, as Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott discovered.

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