The Greens will need to bolster its primary vote to roughly 3% above Labor to triumph in Saturday's Melbourne byelection, as the party's bid for its first Victorian lower house MP hangs in the balance.
With less than a week to go until polling day, The Poll Bludger rounds up the latest news and polls, including a ReachTEL poll that puts the Greens in front with a slim lead.
With just three days to go in Melbourne's bellwether byelection pitting the ALP'sJennifer Kanis against the Greens' Cathy Oke (and Crikey founder Stephen Mayne), it's time to cast an eye over the situation on the ground as Julia Gillard hopes to dodge a grenade lobbed from what was once Labor's impregnable heartland.
The upcoming Melbourne state by-election campaign has been sucked into the vortex of national politics, with journalists comparing the ALP vs Green state battle with their federal counterparts, says William Bowe.
Residents often oppose housing developments because they fear what they might lose. Governments and developers should work at incentives designed to make people more receptive, writes Alan Davies.
In terms of own goals, the Labor Right war machine has reached new levels of productivity in attacks on its own supporters in the Melbourne byelection.
The state seat of Melbourne is absolutely irrelevant in terms of who forms government, yet it is centre stage in one of our most fascinating modern political dramas. Former Greens pollster Daniel Scoullar reports.
"Internal ALP polling" that seemed to say Jennifer Kanis was doomed in her bid to hold off the rising Greens tide of Cathy Oke in the looming Melbourne by-election was really about white-anting Julia Gillard.
In his first day as Herald Sun editor, Damon Johnston decided to take a whack at Victoria’s 665 elected local government councillors.
What's so hard about a bus lane? Lots of things, according to Melbourne's progressive City of Yarra council, which KBed a proposal for one on the regularly congested Hoddle Street. Their decision is unfortunate, writes Alan Davies.
