Australia at the Polls By Howard Rae Penniman 9780844735061

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Elections & referenda

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Australia at the Polls : AEI Press : 9780844735061 : 084473506X : 01 Jan 1983 : Howard R. Penniman's election studies command the respect of political commentators and election watchers as the authoritative coverage of democratic elections throughout the world. This is the third analysis of Australian national elections; the first of those elections changed in the press from a "dull campaign" into a "cliffhanger" during the last two weeks of the campaign, the second resulted in a landslide victory due in no small part to a man who gained the leadership of his party only weeks before the election. David Butler, one of the world's most experienced election-watchers, concludes in his introduction that the election campaign of 1980 was generally a fair one, and the campaigns of the individual parties are put under the microscope in later chapters by Martin Rawlinson on the Liberal Party, Patrick Weller on the ALP and Keith Richmond on the National Country Party. John Warhurst examines the

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