Day 9 report

Bryan · Wednesday 24 October 2007 · 5:49 am

Yesterday’s big announcement was that the Coalition would spend $4 billion on more support for pensioners. The Coalition also announced policies on establishing a council on mental health and tackling the feral pest menace.

Labor announced measures to improve the quality of childcare.

The Secretaries of the Treasury and the Department of Finance and Administration released the Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Outlook 2007 (PEFO).

Today, the September quarter CPI figures should be released.

Polls: Hindmarsh (60-40 Labor)

Postscript: Thank you for the avalanche of emails telling me that I had mislabeled the poll result as Hinkler and not Hindmarsh.