Going around the bend ... and into the final straight

Mark Davis and Jacqueline Maley And so we round the last bend and head into the last straight of the election race. Happy last election Monday.

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PM does her Research: she is still close to 50-50 for Saturday

Dan Harrison If the Labor Party's hard-working advance crews wanted a match to illustrate the undecided nature of this election as we enter the final week of the campaign, they could not have hoped for a better...

Polls pointing to a cliffhanger election

Tim Colebatch Bookies still say it's Labor - but only just. And despite appearances, the polls are converging, and pointing towards a cliffhanger result in Saturday's election.

Labor carpet-bombs the marginals

Lenore Taylor Instead of following Julia Gillard to understand Labor's election campaign, we should follow the money - the $1.

Green, mean and venting spleen

Paul Austin THE Greens' election campaign has been rocked by the leaking of internal emails that expose bitter divisions in the party over its controversial preferences deal with Labor.

Greens fury at Labor vote deals

Paul Austin Leaked internal emails have revealed bitter divisions within the Greens over its controversial preferences deal with Labor.

Porkometer's running hot

Jessica Irvine Oh to live in a marginal seat! To you must go the spoils of new sporting facilities, canteens, hospital equipment and security cameras.

Labor claws back but poll still too close to call

Tim Colebatch Labor is clawing its way back. But a state breakdown of the four Age/Nielsen polls suggests the Coalition still has a fighting chance of winning.

Victoria: the left-leaning state

Melissa Fyfe Victoria, once the jewel in the Liberal crown, may be the saviour of the Labor government, writes Melissa Fyfe.

Opposition's $10m for early warning

Kirsty Needham TONY ABBOTT promised to spend $10 million on an early warning system while campaigning yesterday at Kinglake - the epicentre of last year's Victorian firestorm which claimed 173 lives.

Gillard the favourite by a nose

Tim Colebatch Australia's punters are putting their money on Julia Gillard. They see Labor as on track to scrape back into office with its majority cut to six or eight seats.

Abbott leans to 'guided democracy'

Brisbane Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has told Nauru's President Marcus Stephen that Australia could use a more "guided democracy".

Greens woo public housing tenants with cost-of-living push

Farrah Tomazin The battle for the inner city is intensifying, with the Greens launching a new campaign to tackle cost-of-living pressures among public housing residents.

Marginal voters hold the key, yet are disillusioned as ever

Chris Johnston 'We're not stupid,' says Jacky Ogeil, a voter in Australia's most desperately marginal seat of McEwen, near Melbourne. There are only 31 votes between Labor and Liberal here and she is one.

PM's electorate set to expand into Geelong

Tim Colebatch Federal redistribution commissioners are planning to abolish the seat of Murray and move 638,000 Victorian voters into different electorates.

Union alarm over silence of the Libs

Ben Schneiders The Liberals have refused to say whether they will release an industrial relations policy before the election.

Volatility ensures vote goes down to the wire

Farrah Tomazin It remains unclear what impact the Black Saturday fires will have on this electorate.

Abbott fruit stall as minders go bananas

Mark Davis and Jacqueline Maley Another day where Gillard Labor's tactics came from from the Modern Campaigning 101 playbook. By contrast, the Abbott operation looked more DIY.

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