Steve Fielding’s path to Senate salvation could be much closer than the pundits are predicting. He could again could get lucky in Victoria — this time through a combination of below-the-line votes and yet-to-be-counted absentee ballots.
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Where’s your Senate vote flowing? Go below the line …
Given there are up to 84 boxes to number voting below the line on the Senate ballot is time consuming and annoying. Benno Rice’s new website makes it easier — and reveals where your vote is going if you stay above the line.
Fielding’s $4b stimulus hurdle
Steve Fielding is looming as the biggest threat to passage of the Government’s stimulus package through the Senate. And that’s exactly how the Government wants it, writes Bernard Keane.
Xenophon sets the cats amongst the pigeons
The emergence of anti-pokies campaigner Nick Xenophon as a South Australian Senate candidate is the most exciting development in the struggle for upper house control that we’ve seen all year, writes Stephen Mayne.
