Kevin Rudd’s Radio National interview with Phillip Adams
Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has given his first interview since losing the premiership. Rudd spoke tonight to Phillip Adams, and you can read the transcript here. The deposed Labor leader appealed to voters who might have misgivings about the [...]
Morgan 50-50 and a poll wrap half way through the campaign
Morgan comes in with very similar figures to Newspoll tonight, 50-50 on the 2PP and a 38-45 split on the primaries. William Bowe has more detail. It’s a small sample with a correspondingly high margin of error, but it’s saying [...]
State of the EV
There have been some interesting developments in the world of electric vehicles recently. So, as a break from all things electoral, let’s have a look…
Bob Katter
As attention turns to the possibility of a very finely balanced election result, and thus to the possibility of neither major party getting over the magic 75 seats in the House of Representatives, the views of Independent MPs come into [...]
The Smirk’s unauthorised biography of Julia Gillard – or, Abbott and Costello Meet Pol Pot
Peter Costello devotes his column in today’s Sydney Morning Herald to, amongst other things, Julia Gillard’s supposed political origins in the “pro-communist left” in the student movement. No two leaders started further apart. Both began in student politics when it [...]
LP on TV
I’ll be appearing tonight on the tv version of The Drum at 6.30pm on ABC News 24. Update: I’ll also be interviewed on ABC News Radio drive time at around 5.45pm.
Economic management: A choice between austerity and complacency?
Laura Tingle’s story that the Coalition are planning a mini-budget if elected featured on the front page of today’s Financial Review. Tony Abbott downplayed the prospect on radio this morning, probably because to do otherwise would be to be seen [...]
Refuting Bernard Keane: It’s not all our fault
Bernard Keane stirred things up a bit over the last few days in Crikey, with a provocative claim made in a two part series that the malaise of contemporary politics was fundamentally the fault of us citizens. We’ve outsourced politics, [...]
The Coalition’s primary vote recovery and its potential significance
Folks might recall that during Labor’s polling slump in the lead up to the removal of Kevin Rudd, Labor’s primary fell to a level in the 30s (where it sits again now), while the Coalition’s primary vote stubbornly refused to [...]
Newspoll state by state and demographic breakdown
Newspoll has released a state by state breakdown and one by demographics of its latest 50-50 poll. As William Bowe observes, these samples have a lower MoE than usual, given that the overall sample size has increased to 1700. Here [...]
Wednesday Whimsy
Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
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