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Grattan on Friday: Polls would present a risk for a narrowly re-elected Malcolm Turnbull

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Mark Textor, the Liberal pollster, has raged against the modern addiction to polls, in an article this week that shows he can indeed walk both sides of the street, as insider and observer.

Textor writes that the plethora of polls, with their usually small movements in the vote, rather than the issues, become the most frequent campaign stories. As...

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'Who loses most' is not always the right question

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imageResearch suggesting middle aged women will be worse off under super changes overreaches.Image sourced from www.shutterstock.com

Any change in taxation invariably raises questions about distribution. Who loses, who wins – and who loses most – will always be an issue. But such analysis should be applied with care, lest it miss the bigger...

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