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Willagee by-election: November 28

Friday, September 25, 2009 – 9:37 pm

Saturday, November 14
The Fremantle Herald reports Gerry Georgatos is forming a new party he proposes to call the “Real Greens”. Such a name would certainly not be permissible under the Commonwealth Electoral Act, but the state’s Electoral Act does not contain a provision equivalent to that prohibiting a name which “a reasonable person would think [...]

By William Bowe | Posted in WA By-Elections | Also tagged Dave Kelly, Gerry Georgatos, Hsien Harper, Peter Tinley, Steve Walker | Comments (578)

ACNielsen: 55-45

Sunday, September 13, 2009 – 11:55 pm

The latest monthly ACNielsen survey of 1400 respondents (conducted from Thursday to Saturday) shows Labor’s two-party lead down slightly from 56-44 to 55-45. This seems a fairly conservative return on the changes in the primary vote: Labor down two points to 44 per cent, the Coalition up two to 40 per cent. Malcolm Turnbull also [...]

By William Bowe | Posted in Federal Politics, NSW Politics, South Australian Politics, Western Australian Politics | Also tagged ACNielsen, Alan Carpenter, Blue Mountains, Daniel Tehan, Dave Kelly, David Hawker, Denison, Dickson, Duncan Kerr, Electoral reform, Fiona McNamara, George Williams, Jonathan Jackson, McPherson, Peter Dutton, Phil Koperberg, Rebecca White, Stephen Mitchell, Wannon | Comments (2,703)

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 [...]

By William Bowe | Posted in Federal Politics, South Australian Politics, Victorian politics, Western Australian Politics | Also tagged Alan Carpenter, Alannah MacTiernan, Berowra, Canning, Dave Kelly, Dennis Jensen, Don Pegler, Don Randall, Fremantle, Jim McGinty, Julie Bishop, Kooyong, Matt Brown, Morgan poll, Mount Gambier, Noel McCoy, Peter Tagliaferri, Phillip Ruddock, Rory McEwen, SA politics, Steve Perryman, Tangney, WA politics | Comments (632)

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 [...]