News reports are unanimous in reporting that Prime Minister Julia Gillard is on the way to Canberra to meet with the Governor-General and ask for an election. There doesn’t appear to be consensus on whether Gillard will call it for the 21st or 28th.
The 21st will allow her to call a quick five-week election, but would mean that the writs would have to be issued by Monday, not giving voters much time to get enrolled. The 28th could give up to an extra week for voters to get on the roll.
Update: it’s the 21st.
Bring it on!
Yeah, bring it on – should be exciting. Was hoping for the 28th, but sounds like it’ll be the 21st.
Yeah Nick, I was also hoping it would be 28th so teachers like me could convince the 18 y.o’s to enroll. Monday is a staff development day at my school so no chance of that. /sigh
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