Double Disillusion : The 2016 Australian Federal Election.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (720 pages)
Intro -- Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1. 'Double Disillusion': Analysing the 2016 Australian Federal Election -- Part One. Campaign Themes and Context -- 2. 'I'm Not Expecting to Lose …': The Election Overview and Campaign Narrative -- 3. The Ideological Contest: Election 2016 -- 4. Turnbull versus Shorten: The Major Party Leadership Contest -- 5. National Polls, Marginal Seats and Campaign Effects -- 6. The Campaign that Wasn't: Tracking Public Opinion over the 44th Parliament and the 2016 Election Campaign -- Part Two. Reporting and Analysing the Results -- 7. The House of Representatives Results -- 8. The Senate Results -- 9. The States and Territories -- 10. Changing Leaders, 'Mediscare' and Business as Usual: Electoral Behaviour -- Part Three. Actors and Arenas -- 11. The Australian Labor Party's Campaign -- 12. The Liberal Party of Australia's Campaign -- 13. The Australian Greens' Campaign -- 14. The National Party of Australia's Campaign: Further 'Back from the Brink' -- 15. The Minor Parties' Campaigns -- 16. Independents Return and the 'Almost' Hung Parliament -- 17. Interest Groups and the Election -- 18. GetUp! in Election 2016 -- 19. Still the Main Source: The Established Media -- 20. Non-Mainstream Media Coverage -- 21. The Election Online: Debate, Support, Community -- Part Four. Policy Debates -- 22. Economic Policy Debates -- 23. The Industrial Relations Policy and Penalty -- 24. 'Mediscare!': Social Issues -- 25. 'Continuity and Change': Environmental Policy and the Coming Energy Transition -- 26. Refugee Policy: A Cruel Bipartisanship -- 27. 'Ignore Us at Your Peril, Because We Vote Too': Indigenous Policy -- 28. Rainbow Labor and a Purple Policy Launch: Gender and Sexuality Issues -- 29. Migrant and Ethnic Politics in the 2016 Election. 30. Conclusion: The Implications of the 2016 Federal Election.
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the 2016 Australian federal election. Won by the Liberal-National Coalition by the slimmest of margins, the result created a climate of political uncertainty that threatened the government's lower house majority.
9781760461867
Australia.-Parliament-Elections-2016. Elections-Australia-2016. Political campaigns-Australia-21st century. Australia-Politics and government-21st century.