Nationality Australian Occupation ABC election analyst | Name Antony Green | |
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Full Name Antony John Green Born 2 March 1960 (age 64) ( 1960-03-02 ) England, United Kingdom Profiles | ||
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Antony John Green AO (born 2 March 1960) is an Australian psephologist and commentator. He is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's election analyst.
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- Antony green rips into strange people on senate ballot papers
- Antony green predicts coalition victory
- Early years and background
- Career
- References
Antony green predicts coalition victory
Early years and background
Born in Warrington, Lancashire in northern England, Green emigrated to Australia with his family in 1964. He attended James Ruse Agricultural High School in Sydney, graduating in 1977. Green graduated with a Bachelor of Science in mathematics and computing, and a Bachelor of Economics with honours in politics from the University of Sydney. He worked initially as a data analyst in the computing industry and for a polling company before joining the ABC in 1989.
Career
Green first appeared on the ABC's election-night television coverage in the 1991 NSW general election, following with the federal election in 1993.
As of 2016 he had analysed over 60 Australian territory, state and federal elections for the ABC, starting with the 1989 Queensland state election to the 2016 federal election. He designed the computer system that he uses to predict election results based on partial counts.
As the ABC's Election Analyst, Green is responsible for the content of its election website. He also has editorial responsibility for its data analysis and for their election night results service. He is considered "the face of election night coverage".
In time for the 2013 federal election campaign, Green helped introduce the voter engagement tool Vote Compass to the ABC website. It enables voters to gauge how their views align with candidates based on party's statements on issues and also provides Green and other analysts a dataset larger than traditional opinion polls. Green also writes a comprehensive blog on electoral matters.
Green has said that he tends not to do campaign commentary and that he "prefers to go into an election night with no preconceived view on the outcome and to just concentrate on understanding the data as it comes in."
In a 2015 interview he explained that some of the work in preparation for his election night coverage can start years earlier including building up the database with candidates, polling places and past results and calculating the impact of redistributions. He also recounted the move from doing the coverage from tally rooms to the studio after his "nightmare" of the power outage during the on air coverage in 2010.
In addition to analysing and commenting on elections for the ABC, Green writes election analysis for third-party media outlets such as The Sydney Morning Herald and Crikey and has appeared before the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters of the Australian Parliament urging reform of the ticket voting system used in Australian Senate elections.
In 2014 the University of Sydney recognised Green with an Honorary Doctor of Letters. This was followed in 2015 by appointment as an Adjunct Professor in Sydney University's Department of Government and International Relations recognising Green's work in the study of elections.
Green's contribution to political analysis was celebrated in the song "Antony Green" in the musical Keating!, where he was represented as an animated character.
In the Australian 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours List, Green was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO).