This post is being progressively updated to follow the campaign for the May 16 by-election in the Western Australian state seat of Fremantle. Episode one followed events from Jim McGinty’s resignation on April 3 through to May 6.
Saturday, May 16
4pm. Just completed a circuit of the Fremantle booths. Carmelo Zagami was represented everywhere with volunteers [...]
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Fremantle by-election: May 16 (episode two)
Saturday, May 9, 2009 – 4:12 am
Fremantle by-election: May 16
Friday, April 3, 2009 – 5:33 am
This post is being progressively updated to follow events in the campaign for the May 16 by-election in the Western Australian state seat of Fremantle.
Wednesday, May 6
Last night’s by-election forum at Notre Dame University saw a crowd of several hundred assemble to observe and interrogate 10 of the 11 candidates, independent Rosemary Anne Lorrimar having [...]
ACNielsen: 58-42
Monday, March 30, 2009 – 12:27 am
The Fairfax broadsheets have published an ACNielsen survey of 1400 voters showing federal Labor’s two-party lead at 58-42, up from 55-45 at the previous poll in November. Labor leads on the primary vote 47 per cent to 37 per cent. Also in the poll:
• Kevin Rudd’s approval rating is up four points to a stratospheric [...]
Morgan: 59.5-40.5
Sunday, February 22, 2009 – 2:37 am
Not exactly hot off the presses with this one, but Friday’s poll from Roy Morgan (who seem to have returned to their weekly polling habits of old) has Labor’s two-party lead at 59.5-40.5 compared with 60-40 the previous week. The primary vote movements are bigger than you would expect from this: Labor is down 2.5 [...]
Action-packed mid-week stop-gap thread
Thursday, February 19, 2009 – 12:39 am
So much going on at the moment that it can’t wait for the next opinion poll post:
• Brendan Nelson’s announcement he will vacate his blue-ribbon northern Sydney seat of Bradfield at the next election could initiate another of the classic preselection clashes for the NSW branch of the Liberal Party has become justly famous in [...]
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