Australia’s short election cycles are holding us back. 4 Year Terms can fix this.

Australia has one of the world’s shortest parliamentary terms

Australia has an election campaign on average every 2 years and 8 months.

Only 8 out of 184 countries have parliamentary terms of three years or less. Many countries also have fixed election dates, rather than their country leader regularly calling early elections.

4 year terms with a fixed election date can deliver better governments

A longer parliamentary term means governments can focus on governing, not just campaigning. It would also align with our state, territory and local governments - which all have four year terms.

Making the switch can deliver over $60 billion in benefits for Australia.

Help to make a referendum on 4 year terms happen

Extending Australia’s Parliamentary terms requires a referendum. The goal of 4 Year Terms Australia is to build support to make that referendum a reality.