Australia: faith and federal elections
Peter Riddell
Date posted: 1 Sep 2016
Around 15 million Australians voted in the
Federal election held on 2 July.
Australian
Prime Minister Malcolm
Turnbull had called for a double dissolution
election, so seats in both the lower house, the
House of Representatives, and
the upper
house, the Senate, were up for grabs. After
winning a landslide in the 2013 Federal election,
Turnbull’s
conservative
Liberal-National Party Coalition government was
expected to win comfortably.