• The Costello-Swan debate, thought by most non-worm judges to have produced the usual no-big-errors-and-no-killer-blow result, can be viewed at The Australian.
• The Australian’s economics correspondent David Uren reports that “election promises for new roads through politically sensitive electorates have reached $15 billion, but government modelling suggests there is a high likelhood much of it [...]

Lateline has announced a Newspoll result that gives some element of hope for the Coalition, with Labor’s lead narrowing to 54-46 from an implausible 58-42 last week. More to follow.
UPDATE: First report at The Australian: Labor primary vote down three points to 48 per cent, Coalition up four to 42 per cent – “its best [...]

The Daily Telegraph today runs a poll from the prolific Galaxy, who have repeated their exercise of aggregating four Coalition-held marginals into one survey. This time it’s the New South Wales seats of Lindsay (2.9 per cent), Dobell (4.8 per cent), Paterson (6.3 per cent) and Robertson (6.9 per cent), where Labor is given a [...]

• There is a strong possibility this site will suffer a service interruption today. Rest assured that it shouldn’t last too long.
• Samantha Maiden of The Australian tells us that Crosby Textor polling for the Liberals has “detected a lift in the Coalition’s primary vote”. On the other hand, Lenore Taylor of the Financial Review [...]

ACNielsen has published the second in its presumably monthly series of online polls, taken from a representative sample of volunteers who provide the company with market research data in exchange for prizes and gifts. The poll shows Labor’s two-party leading narrowing to 56-44 from 58-42 a month ago. Labor’s primary vote is down from 50 [...]