Archive for the ‘Australian Politics’ Category

Queenslanders voting in the federal election on July 2 will face a choice between an unprecedented forty columns on the ballot paper, as well as an astonishing nineteen ungrouped independent candidates.  With so many options, as well as a new system for voting in the Senate, it can be hard to make sense of it […]


Most people who follow politics to any serious degree know that polls are extremely difficult to construct properly, and that most of them are not worth the acres of newspaper coverage that they spawn.  Mid-term polls are particularly useless, with the next federal election two years away, the opinions of the electorate right now aren’t […]