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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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 -...
Day one: Labor starts behind
After yesterday's election call we saw two new national polls emerge from Newspoll and Reachtel.
Both had the Coalition on 52% two-party-preferred and Labor on...
Election called: September 7
Kevin Rudd is on his way to the Governor-General's residence in Canberra where he is expected to call the election.
The election is expected to...
Introducing the new comments policy
The volume of comments has exploded on this blog in recent times. In July over 1000 comments were posted - this is only the...
Federal election open thread
There has been a fair amount of comments on individual seat profiles that deal more generally with the federal election generally rather than that...