A bleary-eyed and hungover Poll Bludger awoke mid-afternoon to face the big news, that October 9 will indeed be the big day. The Senate however will sit as scheduled on Monday and Tuesday, the Prime Minister saying he "didn’t want anybody to suggest that I was trying to prevent the Senate doing any pointless political business that it might want to do". Time now to take a Tylenol and a step back – individual seat predictions and a survey of the battlefield will be added later this evening, or maybe tomorrow (more likely tomorrow).
