As votes get closer to being completely counted from last Saturday’s poll, two old leaders have kept their records by the narrowest of margins. Bob Hawke will no doubt be happier about it than Malcolm Fraser, writes Richard Farmer.
Incidentally
Ala Akba, as they say in the NSW Liberal party
There are few certainties in politics but it is odds-on that the NSW Liberal Party director Graham Jaeschke won’t be keeping his job after the federal election. On his watch, the NSW Liberal Party has failed to tame the far right fundamentalist Christian faction which has been encouraged during Prime Minister John Howard’s 11-year term […]
Census shows the pattern of Labor’s swing
Yesterday the Parliamentary Library released a research paper matching census data with the new federal electorate boundaries, and it carries an important message about trends in political behavior, writes Charles Richardson.
