Absentee votes


Funny man Franken set for the Senate at last

There’s no serious doubt that Al Franken will be the new junior senator from Minnesota, writes Charles Richardson.

Mayne: Toorak banter makes for a fun day on the hustings

Peter Costello worked hard on election day, personally touring all 37 booths in his Higgins electorate. We finally caught up at the Prahran RSL at about 5pm and had a couple of minutes of light-hearted banter, writes Stephen “2%” Mayne.

The collective wisdom of Crikey

Far from being a mob of raving lefties, Crikey readers showed they are quite a conservative lot with their entries in our 2007 Federal Election Competition and quite good judges to boot, writes Richard Farmer.