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  Labor likely to win

  I wasn’t intending to write another piece before the election but the final two polls, the largest of the campaign (the 1500...

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  Labor’s serious chance

  THERE have been many howls of outrage following the publication of the Sunday Examiner EMRS poll suggesting the Labor vote is strengthening...

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  Comparing polls and papers

  THE Mercury yesterday issued a TasPoll and headed its report “Libs on the move”, forecasting an 11-9-5 result for the state election....

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  Labor majority hangs by a thread

  DON’T expect this article to tell you who will win — not just yet. What I do want to do here is...

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  Poll: the crucial Green vote

  THIS time, the extrapolations published in the papers are correct — if state election results followed the polling figures shown in the...

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  Council: the post-mortem

  THE Greens’ Philip Cocker has won the seventh seat on the Hobart City Council after the distribution of preferences concluded on Thursday...

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  Council: three-way fight

  DOUBTLESS you will read in some shallow mainstream effort that Alderman Darlene Haigh is in danger of losing her seat on account...

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  Council … a verdict

  THIS is just a shortish piece to update my doubtless feeble attempts to anticipate what might happen in this year’s Hobart Council...

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  Elections: A mildly biased primer

  HOBART City Council is probably not the most dramatic of the many Tasmanian local government races going to the polls this spring,...

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  Poll … a premature hanging?

  Reports in The Mercury: Poll tips dead heat and The Examiner, based on the most recent EMRS poll suggest the Lennon Government...