Australia’s electoral system has a level of complexity and results reporting unknown overseas. Election night is like leaping into the void with little safety equipment apart from a thin stream of data from the Electoral Commission. Tonight, we hear reflections from ABC Chief Election Analyst Antony Green on his 36-year career covering Australian election night counts for ABC Television. Antony promises a catalogue of the highs and lows, the laughs and the embarrassments, the thrills and spills of live election night broadcasting.

Antony Green AO is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Chief Elections Analyst and is responsible for the content of the ABC's election website including editorial responsibility for the site's data analysis and the ABC's election night results service. He also contributes a popular blog on electoral matters for the site.

Antony has worked for the ABC since 1989. In that time, he has worked on more than 60 federal, state and territory elections and is the face of election night coverage in Australia. He has also worked on local government elections, numerous by-elections and covered elections in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Canada for the ABC.

This event is co-organised by the ANU School of Politics & International Relations and the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA).