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By Kim on August 31, 2010
The name of the game at the moment in Canberra is the competition between claims to “legitimacy” – a new concept in Australian politics, it would seem, as no one, I think, ever suggested John Howard should not form a [...]
Posted in federal election 2010 | Tagged AEC, Antony Green, Federal Election 2010, hung parliament, Peter Brent, Tony Abbott, two party preferred, William Bowe |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 22, 2010
William Bowe has all the news on the shifting dynamic in the Senate. We know The Greens have won a Senator in each state, bringing them up to 9 Senators when the Senators elected yesterday take their seats on 1 [...]
Posted in federal election 2010 | Tagged DLP, Family First, Federal Election 2010, Poll Bludger, Senate, Stephen Fielding, The Greens, Victoria, William Bowe |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 11, 2010
Newspoll has released the state by state breakdown of its latest poll. Sample sizes, when disaggregated this way, are fairly small, ranging from 445 in SA to 765 in NSW. That translates to a margin of error between 4.6 and [...]
Posted in Brisbane, federal election 2010, Polls, Queensland | Tagged Bonner, Brisbane, campaign, Federal Election 2010, Kevin Rudd, marginal seats, marginals, Moreton, Newspoll, Peter Brent, Petrie, Polls, sandbagging, state swings, William Bowe |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 25, 2010
Some interesting articles around the web this morning to highlight: Jeff Sparrow at The Drum asks some searching questions about the personalisation of politics and its relationship with our democratic deficit, while The Poll Bludger and Mumble present contrasting takes [...]
Posted in Blogging, Media, Politics, The Web | Tagged ALP, Charles Richardson, Crikey, first female PM, helen razer, Jeff Sparrow, Julia Gillard, Labor, Labor leadership, links post, Media, Michael Carden, Mumble, Peter Brent, Poll Bludger, Rachel Hills, Shakira Hussein, spill, the drum, William Bowe |
By Gummo Trotsky on June 23, 2010
William Bowe of The Poll Bludger wrote this piece for Crikey today, which we’re republishing with permission. This article is part of a weekly feature in the lead up to the 2010 federal election, and if you’d like to read [...]
Posted in Brisbane, Elections, Federal Elections, Politics, Polls | Tagged ALP, Arch Bevis, Bert van Manen, Blair, Bonner, Bowman, Brett Raguse, Brisbane, Clive Palmer, Coalition, Crikey, Dickson, Federal Election 2010, Forde, Griffith, Jon Sullivan, Kerry Rea, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Lilley, LNP, Longman, Mal Brough, marginal seats, Michael Johnson, Michael Palmer, Moreton, Newspoll, Oxley Rankin, Peter Dutton, Petrie, Poll Bludger, polling, Polls, preferences, redistribution, Rudd government, Ryan, Shayne Neumann, swing, Tereas Gambaro, William Bowe, Wyatt Roy, Yvette D'ath |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 22, 2010
Paul Norton observed here at LP yesterday that we’re in uncharted psephological waters, with both major parties on low primaries and both leaders relatively unpopular. A host of questions have therefore arisen: about the likely flow of preferences from The [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Politics, Polls | Tagged ALP, China, Dawson, Dennis Shanahan, Federal Election 2010, Flynn, Julia Gillard, Labor, Laura Tingle, Lindsay, Longman, marginal seats, media narrative, NBN, Newspoll, Page, parental leave, paul norton, Penrith by-election 2010, Peter Van Onselen, Poll Bludger, Polls, possum, rspt, Rudd governmment, Telstra, The Australian, The Greens, Tony Abbott, William Bowe |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 3, 2009
From today’s Crikey email: Anna Bligh certainly wasn’t exaggerating when she observed that Queensland Labor had a bad week. Nor has this week started off well for her, with a Galaxy Poll showing her approval rating plunging to 33%, just [...]
Posted in Crime, Economics, Federal Elections, Politics, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Australian Greens, CMC, corruption, Crikey, Cronyism, ETU, fitzgerald enquiry, Galaxy poll, government business relations, John Hewson, Liberal National Party, LNP, lobbyists, Paul Keating, police culture, Poll Bludger, Polls, privatisation, psephology, public assets, Queensland election 2009, queensland government, Queensland Labor, Queensland politics, The Greens, Tony Fitzgerald, William Bowe |
By Kim on February 26, 2009
It wouldn’t be a Queensland election without drama. Pauline Hanson redux, a slather of independents contesting LNP heartland seats, beatups about gaffes, the awful musical stylings of the Borg, billionnaire magnates suing pollies for defamation and cancelling press conferences, and [...]
Posted in Blogging, Polls, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Blogging, campaign, Crikey, Day Four, Galaxy poll, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, Mark Bahnisch, Pineapple Party Time, Poll Bludger, Polls, possum, Queensland election 2009, William Bowe |
By Guest Poster on September 6, 2008
MB: William’s been having problems with his database crashing, so he’s going to conclude his liveblogging of the WA election poll count here if the problems continue. 10.48pm. I’ll wrap it up here and carry on over at my place, [...]
Posted in Blogging, Notices, State/Territory Elections | Tagged Alan Carpenter, ALP, Australian Greens, Colin Barnett, Labor, Liberal Party, Nationals, The Poll Bludger, WA election 2008, WA election live blogging, WA election results, William Bowe |
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