Day 15: Candidates announced
The declaration of nominations took place at midday yesterday at local electoral offices all over Australia. It took most of the day before lists...
Day 14: Nominations declared
Apologies for the absence over the last week. I'm busily working on the election campaign for the Greens NSW and, as you'd expect, things...
Day 8: Nielsen, marginal seats polls
From the Nielsen poll in today's Fairfax papers, Labor's two-party preferred vote is up two to 54%. On primary votes, Labor is up three...
Day 6: Election leaflet website launched
The Australian version of the 'Straight Choice' franchise was launched yesterday, at electionleaflets.org.au. Somehow they have already got a flow of leaflets appearing on...
Day 5: Filter Conroy?
The debate over the internet filter has demonstrated that an expertise in technology and social media doesn't necessarily translate into political smarts.
Stilgherrian ripped apart...
Day 4: Essential, Labor-Greens preferences
Yesterday, Essential followed Newspoll and Galaxy, with a poll showing the ALP with 55% of the two-party preferred vote. The ALP is steady on...
Day 3: Galaxy and Newspoll diverge
We've had two polls come out in the last few hours showing remarkably divergent results.
Galaxy has brought out their second poll of the weekend....
Election called for August 21
News reports are unanimous in reporting that Prime Minister Julia Gillard is on the way to Canberra to meet with the Governor-General and ask...
Deeply off the record…
Many commentators have reacted with great surprise to how long it took the Liberal Party to preselect candidates for the Western Sydney marginal seats...
Maps of federal MPs by gender
A year ago I made a map where I colour-coded seats in the NSW parliament according to gender. With the rise of our first...