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Poll Vault: Ha, awesome.

Wow, Tony isn't having a good couple of days, what with Bantongate yesterday and now not pitching for the debate. (Apparently he's still en route from Melbourne.)

Did anyone see the piece on the 7.30 Report about Bennelong? Those people they opened and closed it with were truly bizarre, and it's sort of depressing that they form part of the core liberal constituency.

Economist Intelligence Unit:

Peter Hartcher's thoughts on the debate:

Wrong. Maybe at the beginning of the year, but not within weeks of the election.

While on the topic of Costello, Labor leaked some polling about him to the Courier-Mail:

I doubt anyone will pay attention to it - certainly no one's going to watch it - unless one of them makes a big stumble. Swan has a master's in economics, so I don't think he'll be a complete pushover on an intellectual level, and punters don't really like the whole attack-dog thing. (Keating...

Apparently Shanahan's definitions of 'in tatters', 'humiliation' and 'crisis' are different to everyone else's. If there was actually a crisis, I suspect that at least one other news outlet would be reporting it as such by now.

Oh my lord, Andrew O-fucking-Keefe has a (self-described) 'quirky' election blog. Thankfully there's only one post and it was more than a month ago, so looks like we won't be subjected to it all campaign. He fills us in on the key election issue that voters see Howard as a labrador, but O'Keefe...

Not necessarily. His record as treasurer can go towards arguing that his record over the past eleven years is based on luck and his inheritance from Keating, rather than on his own economic skills, which based on his performance as treasurer are non-existent. (Not that I'm saying that this is...

I find it hard to draw a distinction between the incredibly annoying Costello and the incredibly annoying Abbott/Downer/Bishop/Hockey crowd. If I had to pick one, I'd probably go with Brendan Nelson. The polls were much closer in 2001 and 2004, though. Howard came from behind each time, but he...

http://thebulletinelection.ninemsn.com.au/senior_libs_raise_the_white_flag.htm Ministers are dispirited, sceptical of party-machine spin about how well the government is going in the marginals, and think that Costello will have to fight hard for the leadership in the event of a loss. I doubt...

More polls! Daily Telegraph/Galaxy polling in NSW marginal seats shows the government likely to lose Lindsay (like that was a surprise) and Dobell, and is 'in danger', whatever that means, in Robertson and Paterson. The cumulative 2PP in those seats is 54-46. Also, voters apparently aren't...

Re: OFFICIAL Semester 2, 2007 Thread Usyd marketing video. Eight whole people have watched it!

A: Undemocratic. The ALP was reelected with a resounding majority not 8 months ago, and there's no evidence of a groundswell of public support for Fatty O'Barrell. (Yes, I know he's lost weight, but it's still an awesome nickname and I'm sticking with it.) B: Governor-General can't sack a state...

:( Damn. Could've sworn you were allowed to do stuff in the syllabus that you didn't study. Then again, my ext hist teachers weren't really on top of all that, so they probably never communicated it properly. I've been doing the bush legend at uni this semester and I think it's really...

The constitution was designed and put into place before the emergence of disciplined political parties in Australia, and intended for the federal government to have far less of a role than it has now. The growth of parties and of commonwealth power has caused problems in federal relations...

If anyone isn't reading the ABC's election blog Poll Vault (the one that isn't the pretentious and boring one), you should be. It's sort of magnificently awesome gonzo journalism about how shit it is being a junior reporter following the campaigns.

First section is 12 questions primarily from the readings (I think), including the one on Mackinder, and also questions re sport and envrionment. Second section is two essays from a choice of four, based on but not identical to the tute questions from weeks 5-13.