Day two: final list of parties, and timeline
With the writs being issued yesterday, we have the final list of political parties registered for the election.
Fifty-four autonomous parties have been registered -...
Day one: Labor starts behind
After yesterday's election call we saw two new national polls emerge from Newspoll and Reachtel.
Both had the Coalition on 52% two-party-preferred and Labor on...
Election called: September 7
Kevin Rudd is on his way to the Governor-General's residence in Canberra where he is expected to call the election.
The election is expected to...
Introducing the new comments policy
The volume of comments has exploded on this blog in recent times. In July over 1000 comments were posted - this is only the...
Federal election open thread
There has been a fair amount of comments on individual seat profiles that deal more generally with the federal election generally rather than that...
Update on seat guide
There hasn't been much in the way of updates to the blog since finishing the guide at the beginning of June.
I've been regularly updating...
Candidate update: 729 and counting
Yesterday I went through and added a lot more candidates to the electorate profiles, and the same candidates were added to the online candidates...
Polls and speculation heat up
Speculation is intensifying about the possibility of an August election being called in the next week or two.
Next Monday is the deadline to call...
Queensland LNP takes aim at electoral law
While the rest of the country has been focusing on federal politics, two weeks ago the Queensland Attorney-General, Jarrod Bleijie, announced plans for a...
Victorian redistribution draft boundaries map finished
Following on from the completion of the NSW draft boundaries map a fortnight ago, I have now finished the Google Earth maps of the...