Labor leader Kevin Rudd will be elected next prime minister with a 6.8 per cent national swing against the Howard Government, a Ninemsn poll predicts.
Election 2007
Election ‘07: What overseas papers are saying
What The Independent, The Guardian, The Washington Post and more are saying.
Rundle: The Howard boosters are kidding themselves
With the polls static, people are resorting to the Latham-Albrechtsen thesis (a term hitherto reserved for questions of Prince Harry’s biological parenthood) – the idea that people are using them to register a soft protest pseudo-vote, and everything’s gone meta, writes Guy Rundle.
How John Howard forgot the fundamentals
There is no one great mass in politics. There are competing interest groups individuals identify themselves with – but individuals are the building blocks. This campaign, John Howard has forgotten that. If he loses, this will be why, writes Christian Kerr.
Tipping Comp: You’ve still got a chance to win $250 of wine
Entrants in the Crikey Federal Election Contest are predicting that Labor will end up with 84 seats in the House of Representatives after tomorrow’s vote. The Coalition is expected to be reduced to 64 members with two Independents holding their seat, writes Richard Farmer.
Will WA put Labor’s hopes through the grinder?
The results of the Miss Maud Coffee Bean Poll are in, hot off the percolator – and we could be in for a long Saturday night and Sunday morning waiting to see how Western Australia swings the election, writes Christian Kerr.
Errington: Are we ready for Kevin Rudd as the face of the Australian government?
It’s odd that in an era of personality-driven politics that we elect leaders with so little … personality. Charisma has given way to authority and competence in the leadership stakes, writes Wayne Errington.
Comitatus: Pass the Mogadon, the polls haven’t moved
If we look at a rolling four poll average of Newspoll, ACNielsen, Morgan and Galaxy – the story of the campaign is one of the absence of movement, as it has been for months, writes Possum Comitatus.
Position Vacant: Attorney-General of the Commonwealth of Australia
The position of Attorney-General of the Commonwealth of Australia is one of the most important in government…
Election 07: The newpapers’ choice this time round
On the eve of Election 07, the major papers have taken the opportunity to endorse their favoured party. And there’s a marked difference from 2004, especially in the News Limited papers.
Crikey predictions: commentariat put reputations on the line
They’ve been analysing the campaign since Day One, just what are Crikey’s commentariat predicting will happen tomorrow?
Reality check: A little bit of rorting
It’s not the stories about Liberals being caught rorting the system that have kept John Howard’s election campaign off the rails this week. The damage was done by preventing the story that Mr Howard wanted aired getting the run it otherwise would have.
Richardson: Which consensus to choose?
It wouldn’t be quite right to say there’s a consensus about what result to expect tomorrow. There are actually two of them, writes Charles Richardson.
Election Tracker: Frequent flyer point final count
As our leaders make their journeys home to practise both speech options and primp their lucky ties for Saturday night, we can reflect more accurately on the freshly sealed campaign track.
What did the AEC say about electoral law changes? Don’t ask
We can’t tell you what our advice to the government was because it might be controversial. Essentially, that’s the response from the Australian Electoral Commission to a Freedom of Information request I made earlier this year, writes Peter Browne, editor of Australian Policy Online.
Stephen Mayne: The Higgins Diary that wasn’t
We’ve all had some chuckles about Crikey’s little disclosures at the end of my recent political stories, such as this one on Wednesday: “Crikey: Against all our advice, Stephen Mayne is running as an independent candidate in the seat of Higgins.”
Brent: Who is the next Jackie Kelly?
Who is the next Jackie Kelly? And the next Danna Vale? Or put another way: which seats tomorrow will be the next Lindsay and Hughes? Peter Brent investigates.
Your final Campaign Lite
The beagle decides … dogged by controversy … Lest We Forget … Tactical voting? … Casey Bennetto on this “Saturday Night” … Election primer for Potter fans.
Razer: Election 2.0? Ctrl+alt+del
Weeks ago in a grandiose humour, some foolish bint predicted that Election 07 would be shaped by the evolved hand of the digital native. That was me. Sorry. I was wrong. Wrong like Wikipedia, writes Helen Razer.
Graham: Indigenous Australians will be rooting for Rudd
The head says that this election - for Indigenous Australia at least - is not about who wins government, rather it’s about who wins control of the Senate, writes the editor of the National Indigenous Times, Chris Graham.
The polls must have turned
Now they’re not having an evacuation - check out the memo for the scheduled (and now cancelled) securit y drill for Pailiament house…
Video of the Day: Crikey Election — The final week
Here it is the final week — has been a memorable campaign. Crikey hereby presents the best of the best. The cream of the crop. Enjoy!!
Now for the brochures Liberal Party HQ does authorise…
Ross Fox, the squeaky clean Coalition candidate for Isaacs, faces almost certain defeat on Saturday. But that hasn’t stopped him distributing authorised glossies spruiking his dubious “green” credentials and promising a CCTV crackdown outside Noble Park’s notorious shopping centre, writes Andrew Crook.
How will the various independents go?
Anti pulp mill candidate Dani Ecuyer has made a bigger media impact in Wentworth that most of the rest of us independents put together, moans Higgins independety Stephen Mayne.
