casey briggs

[rent if it was set in 1988 instead] five hundred twenty seven thousand and forty minutes

An AI company now lets cops take a photo and nearly instantly figure out what specific home it was taken in, using only clues in the photo itself, and is clearly pulling data from sites like Zillow and Airbnb. www.404media.co/ai-company-l...

The stage is set for perhaps the most complicated and unpredictable election in modern Australian history. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

David Shoebridge won the Greens leadership vote on first preferences, but the party announced the two-candidate-preferred result anyway. Gotta love the commitment to ranked choice voting

Labor has overwhelmingly won the remote voting booths and has gained the seat of Mulka. Yiwarr McGrath will be the new Labor MP for the remote seat in eastern Arnhem Land. Labor now holds 6 seats in the 25-member legislative assembly, while the CLP holds 17.

Independent Andrew Blamey wins the Nhulunbuy election day booth with 58%. Blamey lives in Nhulunbuy and so it's entirely possible he doesn't perform as well in the rest of the seat www.abc.net.au/news/electio...

Polls are closed in the very remote eastern Arnhem Land seat of Mulka in the Northern Territory and we'll soon find out who voters have chosen to represent them in NT's legislative assembly Latest results here: www.abc.net.au/news/electio...

One Nation has won the Secret Harbour state by-election in Perth's south. Gym owner Luke Herdegen will represent the party in Western Australia's lower house, winning the seat which was previously held by Labor on an 11.5 per cent margin.

First votes reported in Secret Harbour, and it is a batch of 1,277 postal votes. The first batch breaks One Nation 35.9%, Labor 25%, Liberal 18.8%, Greens 7.8% www.abc.net.au/news/electio...

Only two candidates have nominated in the Mulka by-election in the NT: Labor's Yiwarr McGrath is up against Andrew Blamey, an independent. The CLP has chosen to sit this one out. www.abc.net.au/news/electio...

Just published: our guide to the Mulka by-election in the NT, with more to come. In a two party race between Labor and the CLP you'd expect Labor to easily gain this seat, but we don't yet know if any independent candidates will seek to replace Yiŋiya Guyula www.abc.net.au/news/electio...

Independent Yiŋiya Guyula has quit NT parliament in protest of the CLP government, meaning a by-election is imminent in his seat of Mulka. It takes in Nhulunbuy and the north east and was held by Labor from 1980-2016, when it became independent held www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

Jacinta Allan may have won a rank and file ballot if she’d contested, but would she have won with a big enough margin to offset her defeat in the caucus vote? Seems like a tall order

Vic Labor rules mean a leadership contest won’t be resolved in one meeting. Nominations will be open for three days, unless 80% of the caucus agree to shorten it to a 24 hour period. It means Jacinta Allan could be removed Tuesday, but Ben Carroll not elected until Wednesday

Jacinta Allan may intend to contest a leadership contest, but would she be able to get the required nominations from 20% of caucus members? If a spill motion has passed it seems unlikely you’d find that many MPs who think a weeks long contest is a good idea

The ABC understands factional convenors from both the right and left of Victorian Labor’s party room have agreed that Premier Jacinta Allan no longer has the support of a majority of caucus.

We’ve launched our guide to the Secret Harbour by-election, which will be held on August 29. Candidate nominations close next Tuesday www.abc.net.au/news/electio...

The Allan govt may be about to follow in the footsteps of every other state, abolish group voting tickets, and put voters in full control of preferences. If it doesn’t, expect November’s ballot to be stacked with tricks. Here’s a look at some of them. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

Nigel Farage is quitting British parliament, sparking a by-election in his seat, in which the first declared candidate is Nigel Farage

WA Labor minister Paul Papalia is retiring after 19yrs as member for Secret Harbour. He retained the seat with an 11.5% margin in the 2025 state election. One Nation contested ~40 seats last election and had one of its better results (8.4%) in this seat www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

Not fully logging off, but definitely logging in less as I take some leave in the gap between elections, before I turn my focus to elections in the two most populous states in November and March

I leave the country for eight hours and a new political party gets announced! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

This is an interesting alignment of votes in SA's lower house for Family First MLC Sarah Game's abortion bill There were 9 votes in favour: all 4 One Nation MPs + the Premier, Treasurer, Police Minister, Opposition Leader, and the Shadow Infrastructure Minister

South Australian MLC Sarah Game is winding up the Sarah Game Fair Go for Australians party that she started after leaving One Nation and is now joining Family First www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-a...

The SA government will introduce a bill to delay local government elections to April (instead of November) www.premier.sa.gov.au/media-releas...

Roy Morgan have defined a set of customer personas/market segments using "deep psychographic insights" tag yourself I'm "Young and Platinum", whatever that means

More party registration news in Victoria: The “End Mass Immigration - Reform AU” party, a party that was last year called the “Companions and Pets Party”, is now changing its ballot paper name to the “Christian Alliance Party”

One Nation's David Farley will be formally declared the winner of the Farrer by-election on Thursday, and we have our first look at the full distribution of preferences in the seat. caseybriggs.com/the-count-is...

I understand there are at most ~2,000 postal votes to be added in Stafford (not all of these will actually be returned to the electoral commission). Not enough runway for the LNP to turn the margin around.