Despite the best efforts of a tax forum and media tail-chasing about the Labor leadership, this has been an unusually sedate week in federal politics.
State elections
When big polling leads mean big election results
If we look back over the last 10 years or so of Federal and State politics, there’s been a number of examples where political parties have enjoyed large and consistent polling leads, Kevin 07 being the only exception. Possum Comitatus crunches the numbers.
Frozen out, Newnham prepares to meet his maker
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.
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.
