Victorian Premier John Brumby has increased pressure on ALP State Secretary Stephen Newnham to resign immediately by banning him from preparations for the 2010 State Election campaign.
State elections
Labor ‘cr-pping itself” over WA polling
Expectations that Alan Carpenter’s government will be comfortably returned in Western Australia are dying hard, writes Poll Bludger.
Informal voting drops, but we don’t know why
A good news story from the 2007 federal election is informal voting. It dropped compared with 2004 – substantially, and in every state. Just why is currently a mystery, writes Peter Brent.
Farmer: The parlous state of the Coalition
It tells us something about the state of the modern Liberal Party when you realise that Saturday’s election gave the Party its best share of the vote in its last nine election appearances, writes Richard Farmer.
