The 124-year-old feature of Australian elections that Albanese supports changing
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Should Australia adopt longer parliamentary terms? These are the main arguments for and against, and how likely the change is to occur.

Albo supports shifting from a PM called election within a 3 year term to a 4 year term of fixed length.

“If you’ve got a three-year cycle, in practice, that often means that you really only have a shorter window of perhaps a couple of years to bring about substantial reform, by which time you’re looking at the next election,” he said.

Having a fixed term of parliament would remove the ability for prime ministers to call early elections, as well, which typically favour the incumbent government.

  • jmcs
    3·
    1 day ago

    My perception, based on the election cycles I followed, is that, in Europe, the campaign period tends to be bigger when it becomes clear there will be early elections.

    For normal elections the campaign period is usually about 1 month. And for early elections there’s the entire dance around bringing the government down for a few weeks, and then everyone will be on full campaign mode until the election.

    • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2·
      23 hours ago

      We already have parties getting into campaign mode way earlier than 1 month. The election probably won’t be until May, but there’s already a strong sense that they’re in campaign mode.