Editors

Working Paper Series

  • Eden is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Adelaide. His teaching and research interests include political theory, democratic theory, electoral studies, referendums, and the conceptual history of the liberal-democratic tradition. His publications in electoral studies include contributions co-authored with Lisa Hill to the International IDEA project Digital Campaigning Resources and Democracy: Perspectives from Asia and the Pacific edited by Joo-Cheong Tham, and the forthcoming collection The Failure of the Voice Referendum and the Future of Australian Democracy edited by Gabrielle Appleby and Megan Davis. He also co-teaches the course Australian Electoral Democracy.

  • Patrick is Research Fellow at the School of Politics and International Relations, ANU. His research interests combine political science and public policy, with particular interests in legislative politics and legislation, law and courts, and gambling policy. He is currently working across several research projects: Politicians’ temporal focus (principal investigator; lead on term lengths and future focus); Pathways to Power: Australian Political Careers (post-doc; lead on ministerial selection, legislative complexity); Australian Parliamentary Speech: How Deliberative? How Representative? (post-doc; lead on representational linkage, legislative-executive speech); and an Empirical Study of Agenda Setting in the High Court of Australia (post-doc; lead on judicial ideology, quantitative analysis).

  • Legal Editor

    Yee-Fui is a Senior Lecturer at Monash University. She is the author of The Rise of Political Advisors in the Westminster System (Routledge, 2018) and Ministerial Advisers in Australia: The Modern Legal Context (Federation Press, 2016), which was a finalist of the Holt Prize. Dr Ng has previously worked as a Policy Adviser at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, a Senior Legal Adviser at the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet, as well as a Manager at the Victorian Department of Justice. Yee-Fui has also practised as a solicitor at top tier law firms in Melbourne, London and Canberra.

  • Peta is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) where she teaches and researches in Australian constitutional law. Her research explores the scope and limits of the powers that can be exercised by the Commonwealth Executive Government in Australia, and the circumstances in which it can act without the authorisation of the Parliament. Peta is the author of Nationhood, Executive Power and the Australian Constitution (Hart, 2022) and is a co-author of Blackshield and Williams Australian Constitutional Law and Theory: Commentary and Materials (Federation Press, 8th edition, 2024). Peta has also practised as a solicitor in a commercial law firm in Brisbane and worked as a policy officer at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.

Newsletter

  • Dr Paul Kildea is a Senior Lecturer at UNSW Law School and the Director of the Referendums Project at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law. His primary areas of research are referendums, election law and federalism. He is a co-editor of Tomorrow’s Federation: Reforming Australian Government (Federation Press, 2012) and has published in law and political science journals, both within Australia and internationally, including the Public Law Review, the Australian Journal of Political Science and the Election Law Journal. Paul is currently undertaking research into the use and regulation of referendums in Australia, the UK, Ireland and New Zealand.

Electoral Law Library

  • Editor

    Dr Peter Brent's PhD dealt with the history of electoral administration in Australia and he has researched and written extensively on electoral matters, particularly registration (enrolment). He also writes on electoral behaviour. From 2011 to 2013 he was a member of the Australian Electoral Commissioner’s Advisory Board for Electoral Research (CABER).