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In The Know’s George Hasanakos and Evan Schwarten bring you in-depth discussions on politics and social issues that you won’t find anywhere else.Drawing on their expertise in polling, research, and politics, George and Evan keep you in the know on political trends and public…
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New Poll on Super, Tobacco Tax and Algorithms (opens the original)
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The latest DemosAU poll finds two thirds of voters back the right to opt out of social media algorithms, 47 per cent would rather cut tobacco taxes than fund more enforcement, and 60 per cent support using super for a house deposit. Federally the Coalition slips back to third on 20 per cent, while Victoria tightens to 52–48 ahead of the state election. DISCUSSION TOPICS (00:00) - Hook (01:08) - The latest federal poll (02:34) - Coalition vs One Nation: a fluid vote (06:18) - How Newspoll compare
One Nation has the votes. Can it win the seats? (opens the original)
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One Nation now polls in the low-to-mid 20s in every mainland state, but the vote went backwards in four of the five polls run across August and early September and rose only in Western Australia. With New South Wales and Victoria both heading to elections, the harder question is conversion: which urban seats are genuinely winnable, how far Liberal preferences leak, and whether Pauline Hanson chases the balance of power or the government benches. Discussion Topics: (00:00) - Hook (00:54) - Intro
The crack in Hanson's support nobody is talking about (opens the original)
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Pauline Hanson's rating among women fell from 39 per cent positive in June to 26 in August, while her rating among men barely moved. One Nation's primary dropped five points to 24 in the same period. No party gets to 50 per cent plus one off half the electorate, which leaves the open question of whether this is one bad month or the first sign of a ceiling. George Hasanakos works through what sits behind the fall. Georgia de Mestre of Premier National then joins for Victoria, three months from po
Canavan, Price and the Senate seats about to fall (opens the original)
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New Senate modelling from the same 9,300-voter MRP cuts the Coalition to 18 senators, with Matt Canavan and Jacinta Price both exposed on their own tickets. That leaves a One Nation government commanding 16 senators in a house of 76, and revives the blocked-supply arithmetic that produced the 1975 crisis. Show Notes: DemosAU: the Senate MRP and methodology Discussion Topics: (00:00) - Hook (01:15) - How the Senate actually works (03:07) - Taking the MRP into the upper house (04:57) - Labor and t
13 seats left: One Nation breaches the Liberal blue wall (opens the original)
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New MRP modelling of 9,300 voters puts Labor on 68 seats, One Nation on 60 and the Liberals on 13, with six crossbenchers deciding who governs. With every major party polling in the 20s, small shifts in the national vote now produce wild seat swings. Topics (00:00) - Hook (02:22) - Labor 68, One Nation 60 in a knife-edge house (05:42) - Two exclusive scenarios for who forms government (09:16) - Aston and the Liberals' eastern Melbourne node (14:07) - Bendigo and Labor's rural and regional proble
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