Appendix 5: Sources on by-elections in Australia

General studies

Australian Electoral Office, Commonwealth by-elections 1901-82, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1983.

Bennett S, Winning and losing: Australian national elections, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1996.

Economou N, A new constituency or a glitch in the system? A note on recent AAFI federal by-election results, People and Place, 2(2), 1994, pp. 30–35.

Economou N, The trouble-maker’s ballot box? A note on the evolving role of the Australian federal by-election, Australian Journal of Political Science, 34(2), July 1999, pp. 239–247.

Electoral Commission of South Australia, South Australian by-elections, 1851-2013 (Legislative Council and House of Assembly), Research series, Adelaide, 2014.

Feigert F and Norris P, Do by-elections constitute referenda? A four-country comparison, Legislative Studies Quarterly, 15(2), May 1990, pp. 183-200.

Feigert F and Norris P, Government and third-party performance in mid-term by-elections: the Canadian, British and Australian experience, Electoral Studies, 8(2), August 1989, pp. 117–130.

Goot M, Swings and roundabouts: New South Wales by-elections 1941 to 1986, Background paper, 1, 1987, New South Wales Parliamentary Library, Sydney, 1987.

Green A, NSW by-elections, 1965-2005, Background paper, 3, 2005, NSW Parliamentary Library, Sydney, September 2005.

Hull C, By-elections: maybe it’s time to get by without, The Canberra Times, 17 January 2002.

Isaacs, V, The case of the missing premier–A strange parliamentary practice, Australian Parliamentary Review, 20(1), Autumn 2005, pp. 34–53.

Mackerras M, Shifting sands of by-elections, The Canberra Times, 25 April 2001.

Steketee M, Viable remedies for voter fatigue, The Australian, 22 March 2001.

Case studies

Commonwealth

Bennett S, The Cunningham by-election 2002, Research note, 18, 2002–03, Department of the Parliamentary Library, Canberra, 2002.

Burns C, Parties and people: a survey based on the La Trobe electorate, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1961.

Cahill D, The rise and fall of the Australian Greens: the 2002 Cunningham by-election and its implications, Australian Journal of Political Science, 43(2), June 2008, pp. 259–275.

Costar B, How to misinterpret by-election results’, Australian Policy Online, 2 July 2008.

Grattan M, The Kooyong by-election, 1966, Supplement to Politics, 1(2), November 1966, pp. 3-18.

Hoffman R and Costar B, ‘Not going Green: the Higgins by-election of 2009, Australian Journal of Political Science, 45(4), December 2010, pp. 693–703.

Hughes CA, ‘The Capricornia by-election, 1967,’ Australian Quarterly, December 1967, pp. 7–20.

Hughes CA, ‘The Dawson by-election, 1966,’ Australian Journal of Politics and History, April 1966, pp. 12–23.

Kelly P, ‘The battle for Bass’, in The unmaking of Gough, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1994, pp. 193–202.

Mayer H and Rydon J, The Gwydir by-election 1953: a study in political conflict, Australian National University Social Science Monographs, Canberra, 1954.

Newman G, By-elections 37th Parliament, Research note, 35, 1994–95, Department of the Parliamentary Library, Canberra, 1995.

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