Day 15 report
Newspoll: The latest Newspoll was published in today’s Australian. The headline two-party preferred result from the sample of more than 1700 voters was the best for John Howard since mid-February: 54 to 46 in Labor’s favour.
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Yesterday, Labor made policy statements on the Great Barrier Reef, women’s health and the Great Eastern Highway in WA.
The Coalition made a statement on technical colleges.
Betting markets: The latest media statement from Sportingbet Australia included the following, “John Howard will begin this week with the seemingly impossible job of coming from behind at odds $3.25 in the betting market to win. Sportingbet Australia CEO, Michael Sullivan today revealed that such a feat had not been achieved previously to his knowledge in the history of election betting. ‘I’ve been running betting markets on elections for twenty years now and I’ve never seen either Party come from this far behind in the odds to win,’ said Sportingbet CEO Michael Sullivan.”