The Poll Bludger does not make it his business to commentate on the political state of play outside of election season, so here at least the "whither Labor?" stuff will remain on ice until 2007. As far as this corner of cyberspace is concerned, the big story to emerge from today’s retirement announcement by Mark [...]
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Monthly Archives: January 2005
Gallop poll
Thursday, January 13, 2005 – 1:04 pm
Yet another shocking opinion poll for Geoff Gallop’s Labor government, this time from Roy Morgan, which can always be relied upon to paint a rosier picture for Labor than its rivals. Today’s results show a 3.5 per cent shift to the Coalition since the poll taken two months ago, reducing Labor to 49.5 per cent [...]
Not so fast
Tuesday, January 11, 2005 – 1:03 pm
Geoff Gallop says, "there won’t be an announcement this week on the election. I don’t think I’ll be going to see the Governor this week, but watch this space and we’ll see when the election comes". Leaving aside the perplexing shift from "won’t be" in sentence one to "don’t think" in sentence two, this appears [...]
Western front communiqué #5
Monday, January 10, 2005 – 1:02 pm
With seasonal festivities out of the way, the Poll Bludger will now endeavour to lift his work rate as the Western Australian election looms ever nearer.
• The silly season has taken on an altogether different complexion in the wake of the tsunami catastrophe, but the effect has been to make the new year period an [...]
Newfangled thingumajig
Sunday, January 9, 2005 – 1:01 pm
Stung by accusations of Luddism from Palmer’s Oz Politics, the Poll Bludger set his IT department to work on setting up an RSS feed. This facility is now available for the enjoyment of those who know what to do with such things.
One day in February
Wednesday, January 5, 2005 – 12:00 pm
Monica Videnieks of The West Australian has had a fair bit to say recently on the likely timing of the state election, offering this on Monday:
If (Premier Geoff Gallop) chooses a campaign longer than the typical four weeks, Dr Gallop can call the State election as early as tomorrow (didn’t happen – PB). But it [...]
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