Day 24 report

Bryan · Thursday 8 November 2007 · 5:46 am

Yesterday, The Coalition made released its policy on employment and workplace relations.

Labor made policy statements on fair prices for farmers and the Adelaide growth corridor.

Interest rates: The Reserve Bank increased the cash rate by 25 basis points. (You may need to hit the refresh or reload button on your browser to see the latest graph).

RBA interest rate

Betting markets: the latest media release from Sportingbet said, “In an unexpected shift, punters have flocked to the Coalition since this morning’s rate rise with 96% of money bet with Australia’s biggest bookmaker, Sportingbet Australia, going to the Coalition since the Reserve Bank’s announcement was made.”

Polls: The Australian has released another cumulative Newspoll sliced and diced by age, gender, state and city - this time for 26-28 October and 2-4 November.

ERMS has released its latest polling in Tasmanian seats. Since August, “the gap between the 2 parties has narrowed in all electorates except Denison.” The Poll Bludger has a discussion forum on this poll.

Reuters released its latest Poll Trend. It includes the latest Galaxy poll results for the first time.

Reuters Poll Trend: two party preferred vote share