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While pollsters have improved their survey techniques since their calamitous 2019 predictions, experts warn it won’t be clear until Sunday if they’ve got it right.

They may turn to independents in record numbers in elections this month | Asia

Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese have spent three years watching opinion polls around the country.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison appears likely to call the election this weekend, as a Liberal Party stoush continues in the courts.

The polls leading up to the 2019 election, which put Labor ahead by up to four points during the campaign, turned out to be wrong - just like at the 2015 UK election and 2016 US election.

Elmira once had a tiny park named after Ross Marvin, who died in a North Pole expedition. Another started as "Unnamed Park." Neither are around today.

Originally published in The Canberra Times.

A boundary change, WA Labor’s surging popularity and the sitting member’s fall from grace have put this longtime Liberal seat squarely in the ALP’s sights

(Image: Private Media) The small polity of Tasmania has always been a knot of contradictions. A week out from the state election, in which the Liberal Party are seeking a third consecutive term for the first time in the state’s history, this holds. Both Premier Peter Gutwein and Labor leader Rebecca White have pledged they will not lead a minority government. But for several reasons, this may well be the reality one of them faces after May 1. There’s Tasmania’s Hare-Clark voting system ...

Total wipeout or just a landslide: how bad will the 2021 WA election be for the Liberals? Narelle Towie © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Richard Wainwright/AAP It is said that a crisis benefits the incumbent, and this couldn’t be more true for Western Australia’s premier, Mark McGowan, whose political opponent waved the white flag 16 days out from this weekend’s election. © Photograph: Richard Wainwright/AAP Zak Kirkup at the launch of the West Australian Liber...