State of the Senate: crossbench boom
Ben Raue -
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There is a lot still up in the air in the Senate, but it is the more interesting element of the election at this point and is producing the most incredible results, with the likelihood of an increase in Greens numbers despite a national...
Website loading problems
As I'm sure readers have seen, my blog is not coping with current demand for hits. Until I can solve his problem I have set up a temporary Wordpress.com website at tallyroominexile.wordpress.com.
I used this website for last night's results and plan on blogging today.
All...
Election night liveblog
11:39pm - This is my final update for the night - hopefully tomorrow I'll be back home at the Tally Room.
The Senate has become extremely interesting.
At the moment the LDP has gained a seat, Family First has gained a seat, Clive Palmer has at least...
Election day open thread
Election day has arrived. Today I'll be spending the day at the polling booth at Sydney Town Hall, one of the biggest booths in the country.
I probably won't be doing much on the blog today, but please use this thread to discuss the election...
Election eve predictions thread
I've had much less time than I would have liked to blog during the campaign, and have used my little spare time to update the lists of candidates for each House of Representatives seat.
It seems appropriate now to open a new thread for commenters...
Day 26: campaign open thread
While the campaign has been fiercely fought, there hasn't seemed to be much for myself to add in terms of blog posts on the front page.
The conversation has been continuing fiercely on the previous election thread and on each seat's discussions. Almost 2500 comments...
Day fourteen: candidates and preferences
The final list of candidates was released on Friday. A record number of candidates are running in both houses of Parliament - in line with the record number of parties registering at the election.
A total of 1188 candidates are running for the House of...
Day eight: latest candidate update
There have been a ridiculous number of changes to the candidate list, so much that I lost track of it last week.
I have stopped updated the Google Drive spreadsheet, and instead I have uploaded an Excel spreadsheet with all the candidates listed in a...
Day four: Beattie back in the ring
This morning brought the news that former Queensland Premier Peter Beattie will be running for the ALP in the marginal LNP seat of Forde, on the southern outskirts of Brisbane.
Discussion has already begun on the Forde page about his prospects in the seat, and...
Day two: final list of parties, and timeline
With the writs being issued yesterday, we have the final list of political parties registered for the election.
Fifty-four autonomous parties have been registered - which is a significant record, compared to a previous record of 40 in 1998, and only 25 parties running in...