Tasmanian Times
Psephology
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4742Hanging loose
Earth to journalists: a hung parliament is not the most likely outcome RECENTLY I wrote an item for this website with the...
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Lies, damn lies, and polls
HOW meaningful are opinion polls? Dramatic headlines last week after the November 2005 EMRS poll showed, apparently, that Tasmanian Labor is in...
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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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Michelle’s back
IF WE know anything about Tasmanian politics it is that the federal seat of Bass was held tenuously but tenaciously by Labor’s...
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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...
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The loss of democracy in Tasmania
