The Tally Room

Apologies for the absence over the last week. I'm busily working on the election campaign for the Greens NSW and, as you'd expect, things are very busy right now. I'm going to be at the declaration of nominations for the Senate in NSW at midday...

From the Nielsen poll in today's Fairfax papers, Labor's two-party preferred vote is up two to 54%. On primary votes, Labor is up three to 42, the Coalition down one to 41 and the Greens down one to 12. There have also been a number...

The Australian version of the 'Straight Choice' franchise was launched yesterday, at electionleaflets.org.au. Somehow they have already got a flow of leaflets appearing on the site, one of which particularly caught my eye. Australia First has distributed a leaflet in the seat of Riverina that...

The debate over the internet filter has demonstrated that an expertise in technology and social media doesn't necessarily translate into political smarts. Stilgherrian ripped apart those who seriously believed that Julia Gillard would replace Communications Minister Stephen Conroy with Senator Kate Lundy, a senator with...

Yesterday, Essential followed Newspoll and Galaxy, with a poll showing the ALP with 55% of the two-party preferred vote. The ALP is steady on 41%, the Coalition up one to 39%, and the Greens steady on 13%. This puts them in a similar position...

We've had two polls come out in the last few hours showing remarkably divergent results. Galaxy has brought out their second poll of the weekend. After a poll conducted on Thursday and Friday gave the ALP a lead of 52-48 on a two-party preferred basis,...

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...

Many commentators have reacted with great surprise to how long it took the Liberal Party to preselect candidates for the Western Sydney marginal seats of Lindsay, Greenway and Parramatta. Parramatta was held by the Liberals until 2004, Lindsay until 2007, and Greenway is still...

A year ago I made a map where I colour-coded seats in the NSW parliament according to gender. With the rise of our first female Prime Minister, and the impending federal election, I figured it would be worth making a similar map for federal...

I don't usually post about the regular polls that we will see more of over the next few weeks as we plunge into the election, but I'll make an exception for the two polls coming out overnight. We have had two polls in the last...