Comments on: Bennelong follies

By: Dimitri

Dimitri — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:54:30 +0000

The 1961 Election was a statistical tie, both Parties held 62 seats each. Labor, however, was in the misfortune of holding the two non-voting seats allotted to the territories. Needless to say, if the territory MHRs had voting rights in 1961, the Menzies Government would have been a minority Government.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:39:59 +0000

term for what?

By: blacklight

blacklight — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:12:17 +0000

the newspoll is taken from march 2-4 ie over the whole weekend.

BACKFIRE..

Thats he term isn’t it ?

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:04:03 +0000

This poll was taken when? Friday? Saturday? I think it’s too early for the impact of Rudd’s less-than-stellar performance on this to have sunk in yet. Wait for the next one. If he rides that out, he may be said to have escaped with his testicles intact.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 12:24:22 +0000

Newspoll released tonight: ALP UP 3 points! 57-43.

Rudd’s losses on preferred PM could have been much worse. Down 2 points to 45%. Howard is up 1 point to 38%.

I haven’t seen Rudd’s approval rating – you’d think that’d be the worst-hit figure of the three by the Burke smear campaign, but nevertheless that 2PP result is a dream.

By: bill weller

bill weller — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:17:12 +0000

William I think the forums coupled with all the info/ reports stories etc are a great idea. Im up reading everything all night. Thats not so good considering i get up at 330 am.
bill

By: Phil Robins

Phil Robins — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 05:55:06 +0000

Six hundred jobs to go at the General Motors-Holden plant at Elizabeth, smack in the middle of the very marginal Liberal seat of Wakefield. What are the implications of that?

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 04:09:54 +0000

The Burke-Rudd affair is obviously a crucial event.

EITHER it will turn out to be the 2007 equivalent of Latham’s March 2004 “troops out by Xmas” interview and his subsequent barefaced lies – the point at which the bubble bursts and the polls start to go south – OR it will turn out to be the proof that the government is in real trouble and that Rudd is headed for victory.

The proof will be in the next couple of Newspolls. No doubt there will be a bit of a dip for Labor in the next one. But if Rudd recovers and is still well in front at the end of March, the government will know it is in serious trouble. If on the other hand the polls turn bad for Rudd and stay bad, that may be the end of the fairytale.

By: William Bowe

William Bowe — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 03:38:07 +0000

Sorry Hugo, but if the NSW campaign is boring you, you're coming to the wrong place. Covering election campaigns is this site's raison d'etre - running forums on federal politics is a sideline I acquired recently, and I'm not entirely convinced it was a good idea. There are plenty of other suppliers in that particular market, including this new one.

By: Hugo

Hugo — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:52:54 +0000

How about starting up another thread on Federal politics? You currently have FOUR (count ‘em) strands relating to the NSW State election (an event which is hardly setting the State on fire, as important as it is). Meanwhile we have what might be the end of the Honeymoon for Rudd, the dying throes of the Howard government, death threats to Maxine – it’s clearly going off in Canberra, yet we are on this normally excellent site reduced to discussions of Peter Debnam’s budgie smugglers.