Saturday, 9 August 2008
Peter Brent is publisher of www.mumble.com.au, a website devoted to Australian politics. He is also a PhD student at the Research School of Social Sciences, ANU.
13/11/2007 12:00:00 AM 2
Gerard Henderson is a former Howard staffer and executive director of the Sydney Institute. He is also a columnist with the Sydney Morning Herald. It is here that at the end of every year he has lots of fun with what he perceives as silly utterances by public figures – mainly journalists – over the year.
1/11/2007 12:00:00 AM 0
Labor’s improvement in the polls hasn't all come from the Coalition -- much of Rudd's jump has come from the Greens. Their support has almost halved since the days of Beazley, writes Peter Brent.
29/10/2007 12:00:00 AM 0
The AEC has published the total numbers on the electoral roll for the upcoming election. The good news is that the national electoral roll, as a proportion of the number of Australians eligible to vote, is about the same as it was as of the close-of-rolls in 2004, write Simon Jackman and Peter Brent.
25/10/2007 12:00:00 AM 0
Even casual followers of the election betting market know that the punters’ behaviour in 2007 contains a paradox. While they comfortably favour the ALP to win the election, individual seat betting is line-ball. In fact, Labor is generally a little short of a House of Representatives on the seat-by-seat measure.
23/10/2007 12:00:00 AM 0
The economy is the government’s strong suit, and Labor’s weak one. But Labor’s task is not to be perceived as better economic managers -- it just needs to be seen as only a little bit iffy, writes Peter Brent.
15/10/2007 12:00:00 AM 0
The government will be hoping opinion poll history repeats. But which piece of history? Which previous Newspoll graph can the government take heart from? Peter Brent investigates.
1/10/2007 12:00:00 AM 0
The Australian's "56 to 44" typeset must be close to clapped out from over-use. The most recent poll-mix, of four polls in the fortnight up to yesterday and taking in the weekend's Newspoll, comes to 57 to 43 in Labor's favour.
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