The Australian Financial Review’s Politics Explorer allows readers to see the party and margin of each federal House of Representatives seat and work out how the polls might impact this distribution. There are two key parts to the interactive database: 1) The Swing Calculator simulates the change in seats based…
Federal political polling in 2014
I regularly cover the political polls with a view to providing readers with an objective overview of what the different pollsters have found. We have a database of all the national polls going back several years that I use to provide context to the stories. This allows me to focus…
Federal Election 2013: The Social Media View
Social media will be a key battleground in this year’s Federal Election with the major parties using Twitter, Facebook and YoutTube to get their message out and fire up their supporter base. The Financial Review has developed an interactive database of the key stats for all the federal politicians on…
Federal politics: Nielsen polling
The Coalition would easily win an election held now with a swing of up to seven per cent, according to the latest Nielsen Poll. The Coalition leads on a two party preferred basis with 57 per cent (up one point) versus Labor on 43 per cent (down one point). Labor’s…
Infographic | Australians who don’t pay tax: what would Romney say?
The debate over the “47 per cent” of American adults who Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says don’t pay income tax caused a firestorm across the US this week. An analysis by The Weekend Financial Review has found that the proportion of Australian adults who don’t pay tax is almost as high,…