William Bowe
Editor of The Poll Bludger @PollBludger
William Bowe is a Perth-based election analyst and occasional teacher of political science. His blog, The Poll Bludger, is one of the most heavily trafficked forums for online discussion of Australian politics, and joined the Crikey stable in 2008.
Newspoll offers a very interesting result in its latest poll of state voting intention in Western Australia, with the Liberals’ two-party lead shrinking dramatically since the previous quarter from 59-41 to 53-47, writes William Bowe.
Now then, to what happened on Saturday and why. The following list is by no means exhaustive.
Suddenly Kristina Keneally’s performance doesn’t look so bad. What happened to Labor in Queensland on Saturday is without any precedent in Australian history.
With just two days until the Queensland election, William Bowe covers the latest from the hustings -- including a ReachTEL poll that indicates a 54.2-45.8 victory to the LNP in Campbell Newman's seat of Ashgrove.
Australian electoral affairs made a rare entree into the international news on Saturday when Julian Assange announced he would run for a seat in the Senate at the next federal election.
The campaign for next fortnight's Queensland state election has well and truly lived up to its promise as one of the most fascinating in recent Australian history.
The Queensland election is now less than three weeks away, which marks the point where I usually start to take state election campaigns seriously. In that spirit, let’s crunch some numbers … The latest of ReachTel’s seven automated phone polls for Ashgrove, conducted last night from a sample of 742, has Kate Jones leading Campbell […]
It's been a long time since an Australian election offered so many diverting novelties as the one now officially under way in Queensland.
Under normal circumstances, the only point at issue in the upcoming Queensland election would be the precise scale of the impending conservative landslide.
Opinion of the carbon tax has been little affected either by the government's political success in negotiating it through the House of Representatives nor by the perceived unseemliness of the triumphalism that followed.
