Monash University politics and international relations experts are available to discuss key issues relating to the federal election campaign.
They have compiled their expertise in a report, The Australian federal election: Themes, challenges and Issues', released this week. The articles are available for republication, subject to approval by the relevant authors.
Academics are available to speak to the following topics:
Marginal seats and minor parties
The battle for marginal seats and the role of minor parties in affecting the outcome of the electoral contest.
The Liberal leader: Scott Morrison
Assessing Scott Morrison's leadership in comparison with other pandemic leaders in English-speaking democracies and asking whether the Australian Prime Minister has displayed the necessary crisis management skills, emotional intelligence and trustworthiness to be re-elected in 2022?
The 2022 Australian federal election: A civil campaign?
Dr Matteo Bonotti and Dr Steven Zech
The 2022 electoral campaign through the lens of civility. While party leaders and candidates have so far generally been civil, has the restraint displayed by them towards their opponents always been observed by the public?
Climate action and the environment
The parties' policy responses to the climate crisis, how Australia's response to it has changed in recent years, and what future action the parties are offering.
Gender, parties and the vote
Associate Professor Katrina Lee-Koo
How will gender equality, women's leadership and the treatment of women shape the policy discourse as well as the vote at this election?
Indigenous issues and the 2022 federal election
How Indigenous leaders are seeking to mitigate major party inertia on critical Indigenous reforms through their proposal for a referendum on recognition and representation.
National security
The key national security threats confronting Australia and how national security issues at this election are not as favourable for the Liberal-National Coalition, as conventional wisdom would assume.
Parties without economic plans: What should we expect following the 2022 election?
Emeritus Professor James Walter
The likely implications of the 2022 election for Australia's economy, and how neither the Coalition nor Labor have a systematic approach to economic planning that is capable of addressing the structural weaknesses of the Australian economy that the COVID-19 pandemic especially laid bare.
