• The University of Melbourne’s new Soapbox site is a depository for election campaign material going all the way back to the federation election of 1901, assembled by media and communications lecturer Dr Sally Young and her research assistants Stephanie Younane and Mary Helen McIlroy. Though still at an early stage, it offers the mouth-watering [...]

By which I mean the electorate of Adelaide, which Kate Ellis won from the Liberals against the trend of the 2004 election. The Advertiser’s latest poll of 724 respondents suggests Ellis has a mighty sophomore surge coming her way: her margin is tipped to increase from 1.3 per cent to 14 per cent, and she [...]

As reported by the Sydney Morning Herald (link broken at the time of writing), GetUp! has commissioned its third national poll of Senate voting intention from Galaxy. This is a highly dubious exercise which is producing very strange results. Make whatever you like from the news that Labor’s vote has slumped in the last month [...]

With today’s consumer price index figures said by analysts to make a Melbourne Cup interest rates hike extremely likely, Crikey offers another round of Roy Morgan data mining, this time ranking electorates in order of respondents’ various economic concerns. Morgan has also aggregated its September polling to provide state and country/city breakdowns. Also in the [...]

The Adelaide Advertiser’s latest marginal seat poll suggests Labor’s Steve Georganas, who won his coastal inner suburbs seat of Hindmarsh by 108 votes in 2004, is likely to have a less nervous election night this time around. He leads Liberal candidate Rita Bouras 46 per cent to 32 per cent on the primary vote and [...]