The Tally Room

Ben was joined by Macquarie University's Ben Spies-Butcher and the Guardian's Gabrielle Chan to discuss the rural contest in the NSW state election and the impact of the recent High Court decision on election funding laws.

We discussed Gabi's new book Rusted Off.

Thanks to 2SER radio in Sydney for the use of their studio.

Ben is joined by ABC election analyst Antony Green and the ANU's Jill Sheppard in the first episode of 2019 to discuss the New South Wales state election - in particular the rule of optional preferential voting and the increasing popularity of pre-poll voting - as well as the growing number of independents running in federal Liberal seats.

In the final episode of the Tally Room for 2018, I'm joined by Kevin Bonham to discuss the close races in the Victorian state election, and to run through all eight Legislative Council contests just days out from the pushing of the button in each region.

You can follow Kevin's live blog of the Legislative Council count.

Ben spoke to Paddy Manning from the Monthly and Stewart Jackson from the University of Sydney about the results of Saturday's Victorian state election, including a focus on the Greens' performance and preferences in the upper house.

In this week's podcast Ben is joined by Tom Clement from Geeklections and Tim Colebatch.

We discussed the Victorian upper house race in depth, followed by a summary of the Victorian state election campaign.

• Tom's analysis of the group voting tickets

Today is one year since the announcement of the result in the marriage law postal survey, and I have a special podcast episode focusing on that process.

I interviewed Simon Copland and Dr Liz Allen on Tuesday at a conference about the anniversary at the ANU.

• Simon's Queers podcast

Ben is joined by Kevin Bonham for a bonus episode to discuss the Tasmanian council elections, focusing on the results of the Hobart City Council race and the features of the Tasmanian council voting system.

Read Kevin's live blog from the Tasmanian council elections count

In this episode, I talk to El Gibbs and Paddy Manning about the Victorian election, with a particular focus on inner-city Greens contests.

This was the first episode recorded at the studios of 2SER radio in Sydney. Thanks to them for the help with the show.

Ben talked to Peter Brent in a mini-episode about yesterday's Wentworth by-election.

Some links if you want to read more about the by-election:

• Ben's post about Sharma's recovery on pre-poll and postal votes

Ben is joined by William Bowe and Georgia Tkachuk to discuss the Wentworth by-election and to begin discussing the Victorian state election.

• Ben's analysis of how preferences could decide Wentworth