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Ah interesting to hear, it'll be interesting to see who y'all nominate. I've heard similar about y'alls candidates from others, so it's good to get confirmation, thank you!

I also assume Labor and the Liberals will fill in their remaining candidates as well quite soon. All of that tells me there'll be alot to keep my eye out on over the next month and a half.

As a quick update, I believe that we'll soon have a deluge of candidates for the South Australian election. The Greens and AJP have their campaign launches next week, One Nation and Legalise Cannabis have begun looking for candidates, and the SA Socialists have their conference soon.

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Thank you for reading! Happy to hear my work has been helpful aha, I'll be continuing the tracker until the election and will have additional resources (such as a guide to every party contesting the election) out once we get close to election day!

South Australian 2026 Election - Political Updates Tracker 2.0 Hello, and welcome to the second volume of my South Australian politics tracker! The original tracker was getting abit unwieldy (turns out ...

Sarah Game's anti-abortion bill has been defeated in the Legislative Council 8-11. I've done a quick summary of it, as well as who voted for/against, on the SA politics tracker below.

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That'd be good fun lmao, there's enough these days that it could be quite an interesting thread.

Its a shame no parties currently use the hilarious Party Name - Ideology naming convention these days. Its still better than the new convention from the right, which is just FirstName LastName Platitude.

Howe has been banned from parts of SA Parliament previously for threatening politicians, and has recently created an AI video guilt-tripping a mother talking about her abortion using AI-generated 'fetuses' to do it. This heartless stuff is her brand and at this point its insane anyone respects her.

SA anti-abortion bill writer makes 'fun game' fundraiser over vote - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia The writer of Sarah Game's abortion bill is running a "fun game" on social media to attract donations – calling for $1 to $70 payments.

As a reminder, there is an ongoing debate in SA's legislative council around a private member's bill to ban late-term abortions. In a horrific grift, Dr Joanna Howe of UofA has made a 'game' of the words that might be said by pro-choice politicians.

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Party registration news: Victorian Socialists' attempt to change name to Socialist Party has been provisionally rejected as AEC delegate has ruled too similar to Socialist Alliance. Party will try Australian Socialist Party instead.

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I forgot to mention this last week, I was so busy it slipped my mind, but my podcast has (finally) hit 100 episodes (101 as of today)! It's been a journey, and I am nowhere near done, but I am just very grateful for everyone who listens to the episodes every.

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Happy Birthday Leo! Welcome to the world of (political) adulthood!

Hilarious stat which I assume is only beaten by the WA Liberals between 2021-2023

For anyone interested, this is what Photakis' changes to Mayo/Barker would look like (roughly). Current Mayo compared to Photakis' Mayo

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Federal redistributions A redistribution is a redrawing of electoral boundaries to ensure each state and territory gains representation in the House of Representatives in proportion to their population, and that there are a ...

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- Transfer the Salisbury Suburbs and Braham Lodge to Makin from Spence.

- Change the Adelaide Electorate name to Tarntanya

- Add Victor Harbor, Strathalbyn, Goolwa & Port Elliot to Barker from Mayo

- Transfer Coromandel Valley and Craigburn Farm to Kingston & Boothby from Mayo, as divided by the Sturt River

- Add Vista and part of St Agnes to Sturt from Makin

John Photakis (Perennial Greens candidate)

- Add Buchfelde, Gawler Belt & Hewett to Grey from Spence

- Remove the Light Regional Council (Kapunda/Freeling) & the Barossa Council (Barossa Valley/Eden Valley/Lyndoch) from Barker and transfer it to Mayo.

Rebekha Sharkie (Centre Alliance & Mayo MP)

- Transfer Aldinga, Aldinga Beach and Sellicks Beach back to Kingston from Mayo

- Shift Kapunda and Freeling from Barker into Grey

Labor:

- Same as the Liberals for Spence/Makin, move the Salisbury suburbs and Braham Lodge to Makin

- Move Murray Bridge, Crafters, Hahndorf, Littlehampton & Callington into Mayo from Barker. Transfer Birdwood, Lobethal, Mt Torrens, Gumeracha, Woodside & Nairne to Barker

Liberals:

- Transfer Salisbury South, Salisbury Downs, Salisbury, Brahma Lodge, Salisbury Plain and Salisbury Park from Spence to Makin

- Unite the Mitcham LGA into Bootby from Mayo, transfer Callington and Kanmantoo to Barker from Mayo

Figured I'd do similar for the SA federal redistribution that's ongoing and summarise the party/political individual submissions. It'll be a longer thread, so check it out below

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Redistribution initial submissions for Tas are up:

Party positions:

ALP - Clark takes Kingston and Kingston Beach
Lib - Clark takes Bridgewater, Gagebrook etc
Greens- primary option as per Labor, also suggests committee consider Clark = Hobart City and south, Franklin takes Glenorchy.

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I’m honoured to be featured alongside some of Australia’s biggest names in wonkdom in the summer issue of Inflection Points.

My paper is the culmination of 4 years work on declining civic participation — and why other researchers into the phenomenon have a blind spot for political parties.

Writing about Australian history and aiming for an international journal, so having to include a lot more contextual detail about everything than what one might need if discussing North American or UK/European stuff. Making my word count higher!

An excel spreadsheet with all the current candidates for the 2026 SA state election, broken down by party.

As always, I've also updated the candidate tracker below.

South Australian 2026 Election - Political Updates Tracker 2.0 Hello, and welcome to the second volume of my South Australian politics tracker! The original tracker was getting abit unwieldy (turns out ...

The Greens have dropped 12 new candidates, so you know what that means... New SA politics tracker update! There's a bunch of really interesting candidates in here (including an actual clown), so be sure to check it out.

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Huh, this might be good advice for thesis writing as well lmao