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By Mark Bahnisch on December 9, 2009
On Saturday night, I summed up the Higgins and Bradfield by-elections: The final verdict – the whole thing is probably a bit of a side show. The by-election results did, of course, lead to a particularly risible bit of Newspoll [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on December 4, 2009
Tomorrow sees voters in Peter Costello’s old seat of Higgins (and Brendan Nelson’s seat of Bradfield) go to the polls. Labor is not running in either by-election. That seemed like an arguably justifiable decision at the time nominations closed, but [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on October 8, 2009
ABC election analyst Antony Green has a very interesting and comprehensive post up on the Higgins (and Bradfield) by-elections. Among his observations: Safe Liberal seats in Melbourne have never been as safe as the safest Liberal seats in Sydney. In [...]
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