Tasmanian pollster EMRS delivers state voting intention result that sources familiar with the matter consider surprisingly favourable for Will Hodgman’s Liberal government.

No signs of the trend away from the Coalition abating in the latest reading of the BludgerTrack poll aggregate, following a particularly weak result in this week’s Essential Research poll.

Newly garbed in the name of the late former Prime Minister, the electorate formerly known as Throsby covers the southern Illawarra region, and provides a safe home for Labor MP Stephen Jones.

The first in a series of Seat of the Week double-ups ahead of a looming federal election looks at the most marginal of the Liberals’ 12 seats in Western Australia.

A three-day parliamentary inquiry process yields an important result on Senate reform, with below-the-line voters no longer required to number every box.

The Essential Research rolling aggregate records an unusually sharp move away from the Coalition, and finds strong support for Senate reform legislation.

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The poll aggregate moves in Labor’s favour for the fourth week in a row, this time rather sharply in the wake of Newspoll’s surprise result.

Outside of a loss at the hands of the Greens at a by-election in 2002, the Illawarra seat of Cunningham has remained true to its blue-collar Labor profile since its creation in 1949.

Newspoll drops a bombshell with a poll showing Labor drawing level with the Coalition on two-party preferred.