Senate tickets revealed

Group voting tickets for the Senate have now been unveiled by the Australian Electoral Commission. I’ll get stuck into these after I’ve finished a few errands.

Author: William Bowe

William Bowe is a Perth-based election analyst and occasional teacher of political science. His blog, The Poll Bludger, has existed in one form or another since 2004, and is one of the most heavily trafficked websites on Australian politics.

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  2. Diogenes: Republican and Liberal voters probably have a higher incidence of the use of sleeping pills in order to dull their memories!

  3. CL de Footscrayon wrote:

    I see the Libs have announced $10 billion in road funding between 2009-2014. None of the money will be spent before 2009. It’s non-inflationary, apparently

    CL, last election JWH promised $93 million in road funding for SA. To date we’ve seen less than $4 mill and its anyone’s guess where the rest went. The $10 bill for roads will probably also vanish into Howie’s non core void with little inflationary effect.

  5. The MSM needs to make a list of all Howard’s promises made at successive elections that were never implemented or honoured in full. It would take several editions, occupying all pages, to list them.

  6. I must admit Im excited by the potential inquiry into the Haneef business. Any chance Andrews might spend a few months in Port Philip for obstruction of justice? any law-talkin people who know?

  7. Speaking of dimwits with no principles, the Climate Change Coalition preferenced the Greens behind everyone but the ALP, the Libs and CEC in WA. The list of preferred candidates includes luminaries such as Graeme Campbell (climate change denialist and right wing nutbag), FF (with a policy to reduce fuel tax thereby encouraging fuel consumption) and a host of other right wing fruitcakes.

    Thanks Patrice, you keep spending Phil’s money on your desparate desire to be somebody. Are your Macleans showing today?

    I think not.

  8. For information. I have:

    Galaxy Labor ahead in NSW marginals 29 October

    ACNielsen 55:45 1 November

    Herald Sun Deakin poll 3 November
    Morgan: 57.5 – 42.5 2 November
    Outer Limits 2 November
    Galaxy Mckew Leads Howard 2 November (partial)
    Newspoll marginals survey 3 November (partial)

    William, I will have to leave sending until tomorrow, as I am going out in 10 minutes.

    Regards

  10. I think the coalition re announced the Toowoomba range bypass today, that was re announced last week, that was promised in the 2001 election. It was supposed to be built by now.

  13. Yes Dembo, this split ticket thing is no good really. My vote will now go green after ALP. You will be iliminated very early unfortunately. You will merge with greens after the election anyway.

  14. It’s been known for generations that you can promise people in rural Qld are the same thing at election after election and they won’t notice. There are towns in Qld where they’re still waiting for the steam trains promised by George Reid in 1906 to arrive.

  15. I should have a complete set of Senate calculators up on the ABC site tomorrow. I’ve got my personal version working now, but the web version has to wait for an IT person to come in tomorrow and load my files into the public calculator.

  16. ruawake – this must be the clue to their ‘low inflationary policies’ – announce then never spend! What genius!

  17. Yes Adam as long as it is labeled pork, looks like pork, and smells like pork they will buy it every time. Has anyone promised Redcliffe a railwayline this election, I’ll be surprised if they haven’t.

  22. Great, they have given Gridlock Campbell $100 Million more than he asked for to buid a tunnel from Toowong to Milton. Hope nobody else was looking for $100 Million because it has now been spent on a man who in three weeks time will become the most senior Liberal representative in Australia.

  25. “I have no idea who is left standing after Gridlock Campbell but I think that is about the end of the line.”

    Wagga Wagga primary school grade 5 class president?

  26. Hey is senator on-line like a virtual party? Are the candidates virtual characters from farytopia or barbie and the 12 princess? Fancy labor preferencing a computer so high up. I hope it’s an Acer.

  32. Yes Charlie, I heard they won by pretending that they weren’t Liberals. Maybe Howard should have taken a leaf out of their book. I did hear that Liberal candidates in the Federal election are dissociating themselves from Howard etc. so I suppose it amounts to the same thing.

  34. It’s a long time since I’ve had the pleasure of voting against the DLP and One Nation at the same time. One of my fondest memories is the back cover cartoon of Nation Review after Frank McManus lost his Senate seat in 1974. It was a rearview of his head, captioned “Mac’s Back”. “Vote Mac back” had been his perennial slogan. Let’s pray that the DLP don’t do a Victoria and come back.

  35. Steve, the Young Libs at Melbourne Uni, where I study, routinely deny that they are Liberals. It was easier when they were in coalition with the Labor Right (yes, that really happened for several years). Now they have to pretend that they aren’t even interested in politics – they’re ‘just a bunch of students who want practical services on campus’.

  37. Kevin,

    It’s a long time since I’ve had the pleasure of voting for the DLP – 1977 in fact, but then I’ve always liked voting for myself.

  40. It looks like pork, it smells like pork and lo and behold, it is pork, but this is smart pork nonetheless, particularly for Nth Sydney (and dare I say it, Bennelong residents).

    http://www.smh.com.au/news/federal-election-2007-news/10-billion-to-fix-our-roads/2007/11/03/1193619199581.html

    The $10 mill needs to be matched by the State Govt to even come within a whisker of the cheapest possible filtration system on offer, but this is a small and yet significant vote changer in Hockey’s electorate. There is a flow-on effect for McKew as well. And the people in these electorates either own their own homes or are renters (and can afford Sydney rent) so Rudd’s new first-home buyers scheme probably won’t hit home as hard.

    Max ‘n Mike might have to come up with an answer quick smart.

  44. Jasmine,

    Not only was I not elected unopposed, but also I was not elected at all. That’s why I preferred internal DLP elections and internal union elections, because I always won, and even internal school elections until 2004 because I always won them until then as well. University elections weren’t too bad – I won a few there. But parliamentary elections – six defeats out of six elections – were nothing to write home about.

  45. The thing you may have missed in that particular slice of the pork pie, Marktwain, is that the promise doesn’t come on line until 2009, and is expected to be complete by 2015. By which time most of the low lying parts of Berowra will share the fate of Tuvalu.

  46. marktwain,

    I think pork for roads works better in state elections. In federal elections, a rate rise will overtake all (especially for those people who own their own homes).

    Especially when the roads won’t get built until, at the earliest, 2009!!

  47. Berowra may drown, CL, but not before the residents of Lane Cove are smothered by the evil fumes of the 4WDs they drive. And truly, to Nth Sydney voters, what is more important?

  48. Marktwain the problem with selling this sort of Pork for the Coalition is that what they have promised fills volumes. What they have actually built in the way of infrastructure could be written on a postage stamp with room to spare.

    Has this stuff been promised in the past? I have a sneaky suspicion that some of this stuff may well be found lurking in budget figures. What year does the building of all this stuff start for some reason 2010 seems like a likely date to me. But hang on, that would be in three years time when another election is due wouldn’t it?

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