Tally rooms have long been a part of the tale of Australian elections. I remember them from my youth in the days when television cameras still shot the tally board, and for much of my adult life I've ...

The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) says it will be running the National Tally Room on election night, even if some television networks choose not to use it. There are reports commercial ...

The shift to online systems will finally kill off the National Tally Room in time for this year's election, with the pop-up facility seen as too costly and draining on the Australian Electoral ...

The ABC is likely to join the commercial networks by scaling back its presence in the national tally room in Canberra on election night, raising fresh concerns about the future viability of the ...

University of Tasmania provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Election campaigns can bring on nostalgia in journalism academics and other exiles from the old country; this one more so as ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Bob Hawke, the Silver Bodgie, emerged waving as if he were visiting royalty, which in that place at ...

The decision to abandon the long-running institution, foreshadowed by The Australian in May, comes after commercial broadcasters first declared they would not use the tally room for election night ...

From small high school halls to a 33,310 sq m space housing a massive tally board, Australia’s national tally room became an election-night television institution. These images from the National ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The recent announcement that the ABC's election night coverage this year will not be broadcast from the national tally room in Canberra ...