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Jill Sheppard, Senior Lecturer, School of Politics and International Relations, Australian National University

Every 3 years, we play the election date waiting game. Are fixed terms the solution?

With another election campaign unofficially underway, voters may feel it hasn’t been long since they were last at the voting booth.

Australia’s Constitution dictates:

every House of Representatives shall continue for three years from the first meeting of the House, and no longer, but may be sooner dissolved by the Governor-General.

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