Liberal wins going to High Court?

Another barrier has been put in front of Tony Abbott forming a minority government. A constitutional provision prohibits anyone holding "an office of profit under...

Newly updated maps

I have gone through all of my Google Earth maps available for download from the blog for 2010 federal election boundaries, and updated the...

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I've had a lot of visitors in the last few days, despite the major outage suffered on the weekend. While visiting the site, you should...

New counts in Denison and Grayndler

I spent today in the AEC's counting centre in Sydney where the AEC was conducting a new two-candidate preferred count between the ALP and...

Hung parliament scenarios

While we are clearly heading for a hung paarliament now, the exact nature of this hung parliament depend a great deal on the exact...

The State of the Senate

Remarkably, the result in the Senate is much more clear-cut than the result in the House of Representatives. The Greens are on track to win...

The State of the House

At the moment, it appears that the Coalition parties have won or are ahead in 73 seats, Labor in 72, Independents in four, and...

Moving forward

So after over 24 hours of my blog being out of action, we have returned. It appears that there was a major problem with...

One day to go: election predictions

Ever since I started this blog, I've had a tradition of making last-minute predictions of election results, recklessly making predictions about how individual seats...

3 days to go: a close election?

Over the last few days, speculation over this Saturday's election has turned to the prospect of a hung parliament. While Julia Gillard has generally...