With the Poll Bludger’s threadbare federal election guide nearing completion (to be fleshed out further in coming months as much as time permits), the time has come to reactivate the dormant Seat of the Week series. We return with the seat of Parramatta, where Labor member Julie Owens’ 0.8 per cent margin has turned into [...]

Today’s Roy Morgan phone poll of 572 voters has Labor leading 59-41 – a 1.5 per cent shift in Labor’s favour from the last phone poll two weeks ago, which complicates the picture presented by last week’s face-to-face poll showing a shift back to the Coalition. Respondents were asked how they would vote if alternative [...]

At the risk of turning this site into Amazon.com, a plug is in order for Crikey’s multi-media election blitz. Readers are invited to inspect my own contribution to the project at the Crikey website: 33 sets of marginal seat maps displaying booth-level two-party and swing results from 2004, as previewed earlier on this site’s long-lost [...]