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Casey Briggs answers your election questions

4/23/202632 min

In a very special Question Time edition of The Party Room, Chief Elections and Data Analyst Casey Briggs joins PK to get stuck into all of your wonderfully nerdy questions.

Including, what does the preparation for election night look like behind the scenes? Why is Queensland the only state without an Upper House/Senate? Are Gen Z men still leaning left? And is expanding the size of parliament a good idea?

Got a burning question?

Send a short voice recording to PK and Fran for Question Time at thepartyroom@abc.net.au

Clips

Do We Need Upper Houses?
Who’s Driving One Nation?
No One’s Banging On
Why Expanding Parliament Stalled
Preparation Makes Perfect
Queensland’s ‘Suicide Squad’ Moment

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Annabel Crabb0:00

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  2. Speaker 1· Soundbite0:35

    [upbeat music] Today, the Australian people have voted for Australian values. [cheering] The choice is simple for the Liberal Party, change or die. We need to have more Australian everything. We need to manifest a hyper Australian.

  3. Patricia Karvelas· Host0:54

    We've always been about the planet, but we've gotta make sure that people have their daily needs met.

  4. Annabel Crabb0:58

    People are starting to see that there is actually a different way of doing politics.

  5. Patricia Karvelas· Host1:02

    Hello, and welcome to The Party Room. I'm Patricia Karvelas, and I'm joining you from Wurundjeri country in Melbourne.

  6. Casey Briggs· Guest1:08

    And I'm Casey Briggs, ABC chief elections and data analyst here on the Gadigal land of the Eora Nation here in Sydney.

  7. Patricia Karvelas· Host1:15

    And it's great to have you back on deck, Casey, and we don't have Fran today, so we are still a party, though, I can promise you. We've had so many excellent questions about voting systems, preferences, voter demographics. Um, we thought

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