The written version of my Miegunyah Lecture has been published and posted on SSRN. Here’s the abstract:

This is the text of US constitutional and election law scholar Professor Edward B. Foley’s Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellow Lecture delivered at the University of Melbourne on 30 July 2025. In the lecture, Professor Foley advocates for ‘centripetal’ forms of voting to be used to help depolarise the intense partisan competition that is experienced in the United States. Professor Foley’s lecture draws on University of Melbourne’s Professor E.J. Nanson’s pioneering methods of preferential voting, outlined in pamphlets such as Methods of Election (1882) and The Real Value of the Vote (1900), that were proposed at the turn of the twentieth century, and which proposed greater centripetal power than the current preferential voting methods used in Australia. You can also find a recording of the lecture at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ucbAxL7W0w.