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Largest Remainder No.1   June 2008

• Introduction to the Largest Remainder
• NSW Parliament Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters – Report by Susan Gregory and Stephen Lesslie
• Electoral Stasis – Stephen Lesslie

Largest Remainder No. 2   September 2008

• The Great Moot Poll – in the form of a play, is Chapter 6 from an unpublished manuscript by PRSA member Ralph Rowlatt.

Largest Remainder No. 3   September 2008

• Office bearers for 2008/09
• Letter to Minister for Local Government
• MMP, STV and the New Zealand election – Stephen Lesslie

Largest Remainder No. 4   May 2009

• Website report
• BC-STV (and the Tasmanian connection)  –  Malcolm Mackerras
• PRSA (NSW) adopts PR model for NSW
• MMP in New Zealand revisited

Largest Remainder No. 5   June 2009

• STV Referendum in British Columbia
• Redistributions: who gets the chop?
• Community of Interest – a load of rubbish?
• The power of 1.8 per cent [letter] – Marian Lesslie
• A challenge to devise a model for the proportional representation election of the House of Representatives that satisfies Australia’s geography and constitution.

Largest Remainder No. 6   September 2009

• Editorial
• Malcolm Mackerras’s talk
• Letter to Senator Bob Brown
• Calare – now you see it …

Largest Remainder No. 7   January 2010

• National PRSA executive
• Green Paper on Electoral Reform

Largest Remainder No. 8   May 2010

• Editorial
• Letters
• Transfer Values
• Visit to the Museum of Australian Democracy
• Talk given by Stephen Lesslie to NSW Branch AGM, 10 May 2010

Largest Remainder No. 9   August 2010

• Editorial
• How democratic is our democracy? – Stephen Lesslie
• 2010 federal election predicted result
• Above-the-line voting and Registered Group Voting Tickets, by Stephen Lesslie

Largest Remainder No. 10   January 2011

• Editorial
• So you think you live in a Democracy…
• Tasmanian 2010/2014 elections
• Close seats and the donkey vote
• Cheryl Kernot
• Useful election websites – Mark Rodowicz

Largest Remainder No. 11   April 2011

• Editorial
• National President to address AGM
• Asian Honey Bee (Apis Cerana) – Stephen Lesslie
• Grief Syndrome – Stephen Lesslie

Largest Remainder No. 12   July 2011

• The Perils of Pauline
• A Proportional Representation Analysis of the 2011 NSW State Election

Largest Remainder No. 13   December 2011

• Editorial – Botany Bay Council
• Countback (as we know it) is a failure,  – Stephen Lesslie
• Submission to Warringah Council

Largest Remainder No. 14   April 2012

• Editorial
• STV Electorates Returning an Even Number of Members – Is it all bad? – Stephen Lesslie
• Should Local Government Avoid Returning an Odd Number of Councillors? – Stephen Lesslie

Largest Remainder No. 15   August 2012

• Change of name
• Editorial
• Lessons from the Queensland 2012 State Election. – Mark Rodowicz

Largest Remainder No. 16   November 2012

• Editorial
• Is the American Presidential Election Democratic? – Stephen Lesslie
• STV Simulation for 2010 House of Representatives Election

Largest Remainder No. 17   February 2013

• Editorial
• Compulsory Marking of Preferences: the Australian Disease – Stephen Lesslie
• Adelaide City Council Discriminates Against Plutocrats!

Largest Remainder No. 18   June 2013

• Editorial
• Prematurely opened ballot boxes
• Who’s confused?
• Senate Elections – 14/9/2013 – Stephen Lesslie
• Above-the-Line Voting – A Worked Example

Largest Remainder No. 19   August 2013

• Senate Election 2013 – a potential train wreck  – Stephen Lesslie

Largest Remainder No. 20   September 2013

• Editorial
• Optional preferential voting – make it meaningful
• The case for fully optional preferential voting for the Senate – Stephen Lesslie

Largest Remainder No. 21   February 2014

• Senate Reform – It’s Now or Never!
• Western Australian Senate Election
• Compulsory Marking of Preferences: the Australian Disease (Part 3) – Stephen Lesslie

Largest Remainder No. 22   May 2014

• Editorial – A fundamentalist argument for fully optional preferential voting!
• Exhausted Votes, exhausted, but still working; – Stephen Lesslie

Largest Remainder No. 23   June 2014

• Editorial
• JSCEM interim report on Inquiry into 2013 election – response from Electoral Reform Australia

Largest Remainder No. 24   August 2014

• Occam’s Razor: some reactions to the submissions to the JSCEM interim report
• 2014 and why we need an independent White Paper

Largest Remainder No. 25   January 2015

• Editorial
• Reform of Local Government – submission by Electoral Reform Australia to the Hon. Paul Toole, Minister for Local Government (NSW).

Largest Remainder No. 26   July 2015

• President’s Report to the Annual General Meeting of Electoral Reform Australia
• Address by Guest speaker Casey Peters
• Is the Robson Rotation a Turn too Far?
• Queensland Simulation

Largest Remainder No. 27   January 2016

• Editorial
• Dialogue with Simplicio (with apologies to Galileo Galilei)
• Address to the AGM of the Victorian-Tasmanian Branch

Largest Remainder No. 28  June 2016

• President’s Report 2015-16
• Honorary Life Member
• An Examination of Informal and Donkey Voting
• Grief Syndrome

Largest Remainder No. 29  June 2016

• Senate Voting
• Hung Parliaments

Largest Remainder No. 30  April 2017

• Micro Parties: The curse of Australian politics
• Nostradamus predicts: the date of the next federal election