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Australian Election

August 29th, 2004 at 9:06 pm by David Farrar

The Australian Federal Election will be on Saturday 9 October. The latest polls suggest the Coalition and Labour are neck and neck.

Cuurently the Coalition has 83 out of 150 seats. If more than eight seats swap to Labour or other parties, then Labour will be in Government federally and in every state and territory – something that has nenver happened before.

Marginal seats by State are:

NSW – 9 marginal coalition and 3 marginal Labour
Victoria – 5 marginal coalition and 9 marginal Labour
Queensland – 6 marginal coalition and 4 marginal Labour
WA – 2 marginal coalition and 4 marginal Labour
SA – 3 marginal coalition and 1 marginal Labour
Tasmania – 2 marginal Labour
ACT – no marginals
NT – 1 marginal Labour

It will be an interesting campaign.

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8 Responses to “Australian Election”

  1. Rachel C Says:
    August 29th, 2004 at 9:50 pm

    Speaking of interesting campaigns, here’s an interesting post where Howard spams voters after passing an anti-spam bill 4 months ago…

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  2. Rachel C Says:
    August 29th, 2004 at 9:51 pm

    Oops, my link was stripped…

    http://www.livingroom.org.au/blog/archives/is_the_australian_prime_minister_is_a_spammer.php

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  3. stef Says:
    August 30th, 2004 at 1:20 am

    You\’re right it\’s going to be damn interesting. Howard is an excellent campaigner, I wouldn\’t write him off until the last vote is counted. But Latham has enormous amounts of talent too.

    In a political fight who would you put money on to win?

    In the left ring we have
    Clark versus Latham
    duking it out

    And in the right one we have
    Brash versus Howard

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  4. Craig Ranapia Says:
    August 30th, 2004 at 2:17 pm

    Stef –

    The Kiwis are smarter, but the Aussies have sharper teeth. :)

    Call me a cynic, but I suspect Latham’s mouth is the only thing keeping him out of The Lodge. If he melts down in public, it’s all over.

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  5. Gaz Says:
    August 31st, 2004 at 9:46 am

    Interesting also that the ALP wants to drop taxes. Sounds like something that would be called radical by the sisterhood over here.

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  6. David Farrar Says:
    August 31st, 2004 at 10:52 am

    Dropping taxes is of course far from radical. We are I think the *only* country in the OECD not reducing taxes. We are also the only country not to be selling state assets that are no longer needed to be in public hands.

    This Government is actually the most ideological we have had.

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  7. timtam Says:
    September 1st, 2004 at 11:35 am

    there will be a terriorist attack in melbourne
    or sydney that will bring latham to power like it did in spain so sad.

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  8. 105 Reasons Says:
    September 18th, 2004 at 8:08 pm

    Tell us why little john howard should not be elected in the upcoming Australian election. Your reason will be tested against public opinion and if popular will rank in the top 105 reasons.

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