UPDATED Tuesday 9 February 2010 9.30 am
Psephology
Pollytics – The top psephological site that supplies detailed analyses by Possum Comitatus of trends in opinion polling: federal, state, local government and overseas, richly illustrated graphically. Comments can be made if the user is registered with Crikey, whose website accommodates Pollytics.
Tony Abbott – Running With Scissors
Essential Report – MySchool and Climate Change
Nielsen Part 2 – Climate Change Polling
Nielsen Part 1 – The Votes
Betting Market Friday
Abbott vs. Latham Polling Deathmatch
Newspoll – a close one
Essential Report – Voter Firmness Edition
The Election Year Starts Now
The Poll Bludger – William Bowe announces each new opinion poll soon after it is made public, tracks polling in elections, federal, state, local government and overseas, and is open for comments by users registered with Crikey, whose website accommodates it. There are often hundreds of interesting comments on contemporary political issues by regulars who communicate via a chat room.
Nielsen: 54-46
Morgan: 56.5-43.5
Advertiser: 52-48 to Labor in SA
Nielsen: 53-47 to Labor in Victoria
Newspoll: 52-48
Mumble – Peter Brent is interested in electoral behaviour. He announces poll results and discusses contemporary political issues. Comments can now be made on this site.
Election year bits ‘n pieces
Nielsen says 54 to 46
My bets: South Australia and Victoria
Future of Kevinism III: waiting for Confident Kevin
Newspoll says 52 to 48
Polling wishlist for 2010
New book on Howard years
ABC Elections – Antony Green, highly respected psephologist, posts commentary and results for elections both here and overseas. No comments can be made.
2009 Bradfield and Higgins by-elections
2010 Federal Election
Political blogspots
The Political Sword – a blog hosted by Ad astra that focuses on federal politics. Posts are made about twice a week. Comments are welcome.
Tony – this is as good as it gets
So you think you can dance?
The political dilemma of an ageing population
The Grumpy Old Denialist Party
The Grumpy Old Party
Why I am annoyed with Kevin Rudd...and why I’m not
Bushfire Bill joins The Political Sword as a guest contributor
The Piping Shrike – a site where well constructed political commentaries are posted about once to twice a week. Comments can be made.
How the ETS became the GST
Destroying Abbott
Let’s all forget about 2007
No going back – an update
No going back
Best of Australian politics 2009
Peter Martin – Canberra based economics correspondent to The Age, Melbourne who posts weekdays, often several times, on politics, economics and other topics. Comments can be made.
The Stump - a Crikey political blog 'exclusively about hi-fibre, good-for-your-insides wonkery…' overseen by Bernard Keane.
The Australian Blogs feature the following blogs.
Meganomics Blog George Megalogenis
Current Account Blog Michael Stutchbury
Jack the Insider Blog
Janet Albrechtsen Blog
House Rules Blog Christian Kerr
The National Times is an online Fairfax media outlet. It carries several blogs, some of them political.
Click here to see the current blogs from which you can select.
The Punch is a recent News Limited blog site that carries political and other items. Comments can be made..
Lavartus Prodeo – hosted by Mark Bahnisch carries a running commentary on a wide variety of political topics both local and international, as well as other topics. Opinion polls and election results are posted. Comments can be made. Numerous post are made each day - click the Lavartus Prodeo link to see them.
Politically Homeless – Andrew Elder posts political comments intermittently. Comments can be made.
Blogocrats – started after Tim Dunlop ceased blogging.. Multiple authors on a variety of topics mainly political . Comments can be made.
Blogotariat - an 'Ozblog news commentary' that aggregates items from many blogsites. Comments can usually be made.
Oz Election Forums (ozforums.com.au) A forum for discussing a wide range political and related issues. The link is to the index page. Registration and login is required. New threads are added regularly and comments are added daily.
Political news
Crikey - Crikey is a website for independent journalism, Crikey Daily Mail, which also supports a daily subscription email service. Crikey’s aim is to bring its readers the inside word on what’s really going on in politics, government, media, business, the arts, sport and other aspects of public life in Australia.
OneStopPolitics - an excellent site where federal and state political news of the day is posted and updated regularly. An archive of the last week of political news is also available. You can enrol to receive free daily emails that have links to the latest updates. This site is a convenient starting point for regular poltical intelligence. To access the OneStopPolitics home page, click here..
Breakfast politics is published by Chris Wallace who says it's read first thing in the morning by MPs, staffers, journalists, diplomats and public servants in Canberra keen to get a jump on the day.
Australian News Search, which also goes by the title Wotnews, says that it derives news regularly from a broad variety of sources including traditional news networks, blogs and social networks, direct from companies, government agencies, industry bodies and so on. You can register for a free news monitor.
Social and economics blogspots
John Quiggin - hosted by economist John Quiggin who makes most of the posts. Comments can be made.
On Line Opinion – e-journal of social and political justice with multiple authors. Comments can be made.
Public Opinion A political and current affairs blogsite based on G W F Hegel's quote in Philosophy of Right: "...public opinion deserves to be respected as well as despised" . Comments can be made.
Club Troppo – hosted by Nicholas Gruen on topics such as politics, economics, law and other topics, posted most days. Comments can be made.
Agitate - a website that claims to 'unashamedly support the rights of individuals and business'. Comments can be made.
Core Economics - That makes 'Commentary on economics, strategy and more', hosted by Joshua Gans, now with multiple co-authors: Stephen King, Mark Crosby, Kwanghui Lim, Sam Wylie, Richard Holden, Christine Neill and Justin Wolfers. Comments can be made.
The Content Makers is a site run by Margaret Simons on the media. Comments can be made.
Pure poison is a Crikey blogsite based on the Edward Lazarus aphorism “Intellectual dishonesty is pure poison…” It is devoted to exposing intellectual dishonesty in the mainstream media, across the political spectrum. Comments can be made.by Crikey subscribers.
Rooted - a Crikey blogsite where Australian environmental commentators weigh in on policy, greenwashing and news from a fragile planet. Crikey subscribers can make comments.
The Watermelon Blog - The byline reads: Green on the outside, social justice inside. The site promotes green views and lists as subjects of interest: climate change, economics, education, environment, evolution, health, media, nuclear power, politics, religion and others. Comments can be made.
Hoyden About Town is a blog site about politics, feminism, parenting, health, skepticism and other subjects. Comments can be made.
Catallaxyfiles - a blogsite on political issues and current affairs. Comments can be made.
Newmatilda.com newmatilda.com is an independent website of news, analysis and satire. Comments can be made.
Laberal is a website that comprises a series of cartoons about Australian politics that comment on the failings of politicians, both Labor and Liberal, with equal vigour - thus the site name Laberal.
Friday Mash uses satirical humour which it says caricatures and chides but never belittles. It claims to push no barrows or political agendas, and rejects the notion that vilification and prejudice are endemic to satirical humour. Instead it aims simply to help maintain a balanced perspective on things. There is a section devoted to politics.