Comments on: Transportee-ocracy!

Question: Transportee-ocracy!

orthogonality — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:58:31 -0800

Can you give me a guide to the upcoming Australian federal elections? Please highlight with a broad arrow the close races, the bell weather ~~districts~~ constituencies, the handicapping, the pundits' best prognostications, and which web sites and times to watch real time results in the Dominions beyond the Seas?

By: holgate

holgate — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:10:45 -0800

The ABC's site? It's pretty comprehensive, and this Pom can make sense of it. Here are your key marginals, fr'instance.

(Americans may want a brief primer on the voting system.)

PollBludger has lots of detail, which may make it harder for non-Aussies to follow. Crikey is mainly behind a paywall, but there's decent free stuff.

And I will be listening to Roy & HG doing their inimitable take on the democratic process in about four hours' time.

By: sien

sien — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:01:09 -0800

holgate has it. Oz politics is also well worth looking at, the tipping comp over there should be reasonable for seeing what people who take a lot of interest are tipping.

The ABC is the place to go for the result as it comes in. The Age and the SMH would be the other places to go.

By: orthogonality

orthogonality — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:04:22 -0800

At what time will election results be coming in? When do the polls close?

By: b33j

b33j — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:05:48 -0800

Polls close 4 hours from now in Queensland, 1 hour earlier in other eastern states, 6 hours (I think) for Western Australia. Preliminary results, probably 5 hours from now.

By: orthogonality

orthogonality — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:25:21 -0800

Via holgate's comment, this is sweet.

By: Wolof

Wolof — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:30:07 -0800

Yeah, give Holgate the bast answer already. Probably too much detail, obscure jiggery-pokery, bad gags and speculation in this thread for non-Ozzers, but who knows, it may amuse.

By: TheOtherGuy

TheOtherGuy — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:02:32 -0800

The Australian newspaper's website is streaming Sky News' TV election coverage free at the moment, and I assume will do throughout the evening.

Direct link here

By: flabdablet

flabdablet — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:30:14 -0800

I'm sure there will also be loads of activity on MeFi's own Australian politics thread.

By: flabdablet

flabdablet — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:31:01 -0800

Whoops! Sorry, Wolof [NOT APOLOGIST]