Malcolm Mackerras

21 October 2024
Queensland’s Labor government will be defeated on October 26

While I may be wrong with my predictions in some individual seats, for Queensland, the LNP will win the election. It will be a majority government and David Crisafulli will be Premier of Queensland. Here are my details…and my pendulum.

27 September 2024
October 19 brings general elections you might not know about

With Federal Labor under political fire, in four Saturday’s time we will see if voters in Canberra and NSW are becoming anti-Labor.

30 August 2024
A cynical stitch up is ready to be debated

I now seek to discuss Victoria because in July this year there was issued a two-volume magnificent report from the Electoral Matters Committee of the state’s Parliament titled “The conduct of the 2022 Victorian state election”. I have a problem with this report and here’s why.

2 August 2024
Is Labor set to lose power in the Northern Territory?

With a run of elections ahead, will a potential loss in the Northern Territory be the first pin to fall for Labor? Here are my predications…

19 July 2024
June 27 and July 13 gave Trump the 2024 election.

Mark my words: the second Trump aberration will be just as bad for America as the first.

8 July 2024
Payman should go Green and Thorpe will go

After three senators have dumped their parties to go independent, we now have five independents, which is a lot of power. But Malcolm Mackerras thinks it’s unlikely these political players will stand the test of time.

27 June 2024
BRICS elections give good news

When I say that these election results gave good news, I should declare the parties of which I am a ‘putative’ member.

4 June 2024
The British House of Commons is too big

Having already made a few predictions last year about the British general election, now we have a date for it, I’d like to make some supplementary predictions. And there’s another aspect of this election that interests me: the size of the House of Commons, given the size of the country.

21 May 2024
The office of Australia’s Governor-General

The point of my article today is to discuss the office of Governor-General, not the merits of the people who have held it and to ask the question Is the Governor-General the Australian head of state?

6 May 2024
Lessons to learn from Dunstan & Cook

There are two lessons to learn from Dunstan and Cook. In my article I go through each of them.

10 April 2024
Did Tasmanian Liberal Party really win four general elections?

While I didn’t make any public prediction for this election, but in private conversation and private emails I did make a forecast…

28 March 2024
Queensland Libs do well – disaster elsewhere

The Albanese government will enjoy a second general election win in May next year. Dutton can afford to lose this election, but he can’t afford to lose again in May 2028. And here’s why I say this.

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