Visiting Fellow
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Mr Mackerras was born in Sydney in August 1939, completing a BEc at the University of Sydney in 1962. He joined the Department of Government at RMC Duntroon in February 1974 and, until his retirement in February 2004, he taught both Australian and US politics at Duntroon and later at the Australian Defence Force Academy. He is well known for his interest in Australian elections, and has written and contributed extensively to various media on most federal and state elections. He was promoted to Associate Professor at the School of Politics, with effect from January 1999, until he retired in February 2004. Therefore, his service as an academic employed by the University of New South Wales spanned thirty years, from February 1974 to February 2004.
Research Interests
American, Australian, Irish and New Zealand elections; American politics and electoral systems.
The Mackerras Pendulum (pdf 218kb)
Malcolm Mackerras is well known for “The Mackerras Pendulum” which applies to all Australian lower houses with single member electorates. These pendulums are usually published again in The Australian newspaper shortly before polling day. If you write to Mr Mackerras (as many people have done) he can send you (by “snail mail”) his newest pendulums for New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory. These are always kept up-to-date by him, his most recent being his preview pendulum for the 2009 Queensland state election which was published in The Weekend Australian in January 2009.