Should Australia adopt longer parliamentary terms? These are the main arguments for and against, and how likely the change is to occur.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has reiterated his support for changing the length of parliamentary terms, as speculation grows about the date of the next federal election. "We should have four-year fixed terms," he told the Seven Network's Sunrise program on Tuesday. Unlike many other parts of the world, Australia's national poll doesn't have a set date.
"We've seen a number of governments in recent years on both sides, actually — think of the Labor government in 2012-13, think of the Coalition government really in its last year or so, more recently, whose time had run out, and I think there was a real taste on the part of voters to remove them," Bongiorno said. "Now, in the event of four-year terms, of course, those governments will potentially have dragged on for a great deal longer.
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