The federal redistribution of New South Wales has been completed, with a final determination that turns up fewer surprises than the recent effort in Queensland. Antony Green has as always given the new boundaries the once-over; all margins quoted herein are as calculated by him.
• The commissioners have responded to widespread criticism of the original [...]
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Redraw redrawn
Saturday, October 24, 2009 – 5:30 am
Morgan: 60-40
Saturday, October 17, 2009 – 6:23 am
Roy Morgan has simultaneously unloaded two sets of polling figures, as it does from time to time. The regular fortnightly face-to-face poll, conducted over the previous two weekends from a sample of 1684, has Labor’s lead nudging up to 60-40 compared with 59.5-40.5 at the previous such poll. Both major parties are down 1.5 per [...]
NSW redistribution thread
Friday, August 7, 2009 – 11:56 am
A thread for discussion of the proposed new federal boundaries for New South Wales, which can be viewed here. Laurie Ferguson’s seat of Reid is the one for the chop. Antony Green’s analysis is here. My own overview will appear later.
UPDATE (10/8/09): Here it is.
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The abolished electorate of Reid, located in the western suburbs from [...]
Queensland redistribution thread
Friday, July 24, 2009 – 3:10 am
Work commitments will prevent me from being early off the mark with analysis of the federal redistribution in Queensland, for which the Redistribution Committee’s initial proposal is scheduled to be published today. Antony Green has an analysis of Labor’s submission to the committee.
Please note that this thread is expressly for discussion of the redistribution. If [...]
Essential Research: 58-42
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 – 6:14 pm
Labor’s two-party vote from Essential Research has a five in front of it for the first time since January, dropping two points to 58-42. The report also finds Kevin Rudd’s position on asylum seekers is favoured over Malcolm Turnbull’s by 45 per cent to 33 per cent; the Labor Party is thought better to handle [...]
Tasmania redistributed
Friday, August 22, 2008 – 9:55 am
The Australian Electoral Commission has unveiled the proposed new boundaries for Tasmania. More to follow.
WA redistributed
Friday, August 1, 2008 – 11:03 am
Proposed new electoral boundaries for Western Australian are available for your perusal. Commentary to follow.
Big surprise: a radical redrawing of the remote areas divides them evenly between O’Connor and Kalgoorlie, the former taking the entire northern half of the state and Kalgoorlie most of the south. I don’t imagine Wilson Tuckey will be too happy [...]
Apple sliced
Friday, February 22, 2008 – 2:51 pm
This post began life as an addendum to my post on the Dennis Shanahan article, which read as follows:
In other news, the AEC has commenced a redistribution for Tasmania, it having gone the maximum seven years without one. The AEC’s figures respectively put enrolment in Bass, Denison and Lyons at 1.2 per cent, 1.6 per [...]
The luck of the draw
Tuesday, January 15, 2008 – 10:22 pm
Assuming this parliament runs its full term, there are likely to be redistributions in every state except South Australia before the next election, as well as the Northern Territory. A Western Australian redistribution is currently in its early stages, resulting from the rule requiring that states and territories be redistributed at least every seven years. [...]
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