Recent events have amply illustrated that politics is a brutal game, in which practitioners are subjected to relentless acts of bastardry from ambitious rivals, muck-raking journalists and sundry other scumbags and bottom-feeders. Worst of the bunch are the psephologists, who spend their time between elections anticipating the next health crisis or personal breakdown that will [...]

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TWO-PARTY

PRIMARY

ELECTORATE
COUNT

LABOR
GRN/LIB
SWING

LABOR
GRN/LIB

MARRICKVILLE
82.0

55.0
45.0
5.7

49.1
39.9

MAROUBRA
79.8

67.5
32.5
10.4

57.5
19.5

MACQUARIE FIELDS
84.4

59.2
40.8
10.7

51.4
34.4

9.50. Here they are – Labor’s two-party vote in Maroubra with all booths in is 68.2 per cent compared with my own estimate of 67.5 per cent, and the swing to the Greens 9.7 per cent rather than my estimate of 10.4 per cent.
9.41. Just waiting on notional preference results from Maroubra now. About [...]

The pace has quickened noticeably as the New South Wales triple-M by-election campaign has entered its final week – at least in Marrickville, the only one of the three seats where anything is at stake. For those who have a particular interest in the outcome, you could do worse than to log on to this [...]

As you are all no doubt aware, a fair bit has changed in New South Wales since the last by-election campaign update. John Brogden’s travails have so dominated media coverage of state politics that this site has been left with very little to report, except to note that the turmoil has obviously been to Labor’s [...]