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Election date: August 21

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Australian Election 2010

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Federal election website information, arranged to assist students, teachers and researchers and to promote electoral education.

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EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION

 9. Opinion polls

NEWS & GUIDES

CANDIDATES

11. Maps of electoral divisions

EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES

RESULTS

MULTIMEDIA

MORE INFORMATION

OPINION

ABC Elections: Antony Green's "Green Guide"

ABC Elections: Antony Green's Blog
- How to Vote Guide

ABC: Civics & politics
A list of ABC internet, TV and radio programs that have election content.

The Australian: National Affairs - Election 2010
(www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs)

Sydney Morning Herald: Federal Election - Decision 2010
(www.smh.com.au/federal-election)

The Age: Federal Election
(www.theage.com.au/federal-election)

Courier Mail: Election 2010
(www.couriermail.com.au)

news.com.au: Easy election Guide
(www.news.com.au/features/federal-election)

ninemsn: Election 2010
(www.news.ninemsn.com.au/election-2010)

YAHOO! 7 News

Timeline: Key events in 2010 election campaign
Key moments of Australia's 2010 election campaign.

SBS: Vote 2010
(Link http://www.sbs.com.au/vote2010/ not working 21 Sep 2011.)

Sky News: Election
(Link http://skynews.com.au/election2010/ not working 21 Sep 2011.)
 

The Tally Room - 2010 Federal Election: Seat Profiles

Google Autralian Federal Election 2010
Google has centralised 2010 election information.

Roy Morgan Research

Wikipedia - Australian Federal Election, 2010

Adam Carr's guides

Where to get your 2010 election news online
From Digital media.
 

The Issues (YAHOO! 7 News)

Easy Election Guide: Policies (news.com.au)

Vote 2010 (SBS)
Click on "ISSUES" in the top menu .
(Link http://www.sbs.com.au/vote2010/ not working 21 Sep 2011.)

Issues (SMH)

ELECTION 2010: The ten big issues for business (Smart Company)

Election 2010 - The tech issues that matter (ARN)

See also the list of websites of the political parties below.

See also Top Ten Issues (ABC)

See also AGENDA: 15 questions the election should be about (SMH)
"The 15 questions this election should be about, but isn't."
 

Practice voting (AEC)
Practise completing the ballot papers for the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Election Calculator (ABC)
For the House of Representatives.
A calculator for the Senate is also available. Select individual State.
See also the Electoral Pendulum (also from Antony Green's "Green Guide").

Swingometer (SMH)
"The state of the Parliament." Click, then see the effects of swings.

Interactive Map (ABC)
Track the daily movements of Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott. From Antony Green's "Green Guide".

Election Tracker (Crikey)
Track the daily movements of Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott.

Election 2010 Campaign Map (news.com.au)

Electorate Finder (ABC)
From Antony Green's "Green Guide" (ABC).

Your Electorate and Where to Vote (Google)

Top Ten Issues (ABC)
Scroll down to "TOP TEN ISSUES".
- See how the order of importance of issues varies by age group, gender and state.
- Add YOUR views on the order of importance of issues. (Click on "Rank your issues  now...")
- See the ranking by people using Twitter.
From Pulse in Antony Green's "Green Guide" (ABC).

Vote-a-matic (SMH)
Make a series of ten choices, plus some tie-breakers, to find out which major party you support.

You decide what policy is the biggest priority (news.com.au)

What's your politics (news.com.au)
"The What's Your Politics interactive has 15 questions based on real-life scenarios at Work, at Home and the Pub... At the end, you’ll see how your answers match your instincts to some famous figures... You’ll also see how closely you match the party leaders - Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott and Bob Brown."

Major political events since 2007 (SBS)
"Interactive timeline of major political events since the 2007 election, including an opinion poll." Drag the light grey box at the bottom; move the mouse over the grey vertical bars at the top. (Link http://www.sbs.com.au/vote2010/election101/1013362/Interactive-Political-events-since-last-election not working 21 Sep 2011.)
 

See also ONLINE POLLS below.
 

Liberal Party: Tony Abbott

YouTube: Australian Greens

YouTube: The Nationals

Family First: Steve Fielding

Election 2010 Spoof Trailer
Produced by GetUp. Warning: Contains innuendo and violence.

Campaign Mash: the big moments in just 60 seconds

7News Election Video and Election Video Archive
Sydney Morning Herald videos
ninemsn videos
SBS election videos (Link http://www.sbs.com.au/vote2010/videos no longer working, 21 Sep 2011.)

ElectionWire on Youthscape (Google)
Warning: Possible inappropriate language.

Australia Votes: The election channel by Google (YouTube)
Warning: Inappropriate language in comments.

AEC Educational material: Videos

 

Abbott on QandA (ABC)

Gillard on QandA (ABC)

7.30 Report political interviews (ABC)

Crikey - Federal Election 2010

Crikey's Election 2010

Pollytics
(Part of the crikey.com website.)

The Poll Bludger
"Reflections on the miracle of democracy at work in the greatest nation on Earth."

Mumble
(Now part of The Australian's website.)

7 News Election: Opinion

The Australian: Opinion & Blogs

Election Live: A live blog from Antony Green (ABC)

The Drum
Part of the ABC's website. "Analysis and views on the issues of the day."
- The battle of Rooty Hill

Blog Watch
Lists political blogs. Especially see, in the right hand column, "Sites of Interest".

Google Blog
"Official Google Australia blog." (For interest, see also the Google 2007 election blog.)

Antony Green's Election Blog can be found under News media guides.
 

Australian Election 2010 - Social media match fitness
"The 2010 Australian Election is going to be an interesting one for social media analysis, because for the first time we will see to be able to see whether social sentiment is going to have an impact on how people vote."
On sentiment and the use of Twitter data, see also the ABC's Campaign Pulse.

Twittersphere (SMH)

SMH: Online battle crucial to election
Sydney Morning Herald, 19 July 2010.

SBS: Gillard v Abbott: who's winning on Facebook?
SBS, 21 July 2010. (Link no longer working, 21 Sep 2011.)
 

Opinion polls and election results (Oz Guide)

See also:
Election Search Trends (Google)
Not an opinion poll, but shows which party leaders and parties people are searching for in Google.

 

List of political parties: 2010 election (AEC)

Current Register of Political Parties (AEC)

Political Parties
(AustralianPolitics.com)

List of political parties in Australia (Wikipedia)

Parliament of Australia
Current members:
- House of Representatives
- Senate

Prime Minister of Australia (Julia Gillard)
www.pm.gov.au

Leader of the Opposition (Tony Abbott)

Candidates (AEC)

Candidates (ABC)

Key political players (SBS) (Link no longer working, 21 Sep 2011.)

Key parties (SBS) (Link no longer working, 21 Sep 2011.)

Parties and Policies, Political Leaders (YAHOO! 7 News)

DATA: List of registered parties for the 2010 Federal election [csv file] (AEC)
 

11. Maps of electoral divisions

Federal Election 2010 - Maps of electoral divisions
From Adam Carr's website.

DATA: List of current federal electorates [csv file] (AEC)

DATA: Early list of polling places (not yet finalised) [csv file] (AEC)
 

ELECTION RESULTS 21 August 2010 Election

AEC: Virtual Tally Room
http://vtr.aec.gov.au (Note that this link usually works only around election time.)
First choose a menu item at the left of the page.

ABC Elections - Australia Votes 2010: Results
From the ABC's election site, http://www.abc.net.au/elections:
- Electorate results
- State of the parties
- Interactive map, showing results
- Latest seat results
- MORE: Live results list
- SENATE results

2010 federal election (AEC)
(Previously National Tally Room link.)

Multi-platform, multi-lingual coverage set to saturate
Roundup of election night coverage, from The Australian, 16 August 2010.

See also Hung parliaments
 

Australia Votes 2007 (ABC)

Parliamentary Handbook - Elections and Referendums
From the Parliamentary Library, Parliament of Australia, Canberra.

List of Australian federal elections
From Wikipedia.

Australian federal election, 2007
From Wikipedia.

Adam Carr's Australian Election Archive
 

AustralianPolitics.com

Voting & Electoral Systems
(www.australianpolitics.com/voting)

Voting & Elections
(www.australianpolitics.com/voting)

Elections in Australia
From Wikipedia.

Australian electoral system
From Wikipedia.

FAQ: Australian federal election 2010 explained (news.com.au)

Election 101 (SBS)
Events since 2007, key marginal seats, key parties, key political players, glossary, upper and lower houses, how to vote. ( Link http://www.sbs.com.au/vote2010/election101/1013362/Interactive-Political-events-since-last-election not working, 21 Sep 2011.)

 

Democracy
Part of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation website.

Discovering Democracy (Curriculum Corporation)
From the Curriculum Corporation (funded by the Australian Government).

Discovering Democracy (ABC)
Designed primarily for teachers.

The Common Good
Australian Broadcasting Corporation site. "This site brings together a wide range of resources for learning about civics and citizenship."

Documenting a Democracy
(www.foundingdocs.gov.au)
The documents behind Australia's story.

Australia's system of government
From the Australian Government's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade site. Available as a PDF file.
 

Living in a Democracy [pdf file, 1.4MB]
Double-page spread from Herald Education.
(Link at http://www.heraldeducation.com.au/userimages/14Sept09pg6and7.pdf no longer working, 20 Sep 2011.)
 

Discovering Democracy units (ABC):
- Should the People Rule? See:
Focus Question 4: How do the people rule in Australia?
   -  Activity 3: Voting.

Discovering Democracy units (ABC):
- Democratic struggles See:
Focus question 5: Why didn't all adults get the vote at Federation...
   - Activity 1: The argument about women's voting rights.
   - Activity 2: Methods used by women to gain the vote.
   - Activity 5: The 1967 Referendum.
   - Activity 6: A timeline of Aboriginal people's achievement of the right to vote.

Discovering Democracy units (ABC):
- Parties Control Government See:
Student introduction
   - Activity 1: Preparing for an opinion poll
   - Activity 2: Conducting the poll (Continues in Focus question 3 below)
Focus question 1: What role do political parties have in parliament and government?
   - Activity 1: Class discussion (parties, issues, policies, parliament, government)
   - Activity 2: Who forms the government?
   - Activity 3: Who does what in government?
   - Activity 4: Defining and explaining (party discipline)
   - Activity 5: Loyalty to party or electorate?
   - Activity 6: Is the party in government an elected dictatorship?
Focus question 2: Who do Australia's political parties represent?
   - Activity 1: Australia's political parties
   - Activity 2: 'Left' and 'right'
   - Activity 4: The middle ground
Focus question 3: How do parties select policies and campaign for government?
   - Activity 4: Opinion poll analysis (Continues from Activity 2 in the Student introduction above)
   - Activity 5: Collating the findings

Democracy (ABC) [Frames / No frames page]
- See especially The Power of One (which focuses on voting) and related activities.

Civics and Citizenship Education (DEEWR)
See Teaching and Learning Activities. Examples:
- Voting - choosing your parliamentary representatives: Introduction
- Voting: Should you have to?
- Electoral events timeline
- Poster power
- The Secret Ballot - Voting in Australia
- Electric electorate
- Votes for women
- The 1967 referendum
- Voting and belonging: Introduction

Representation: Elections (PEO)
From the Parliamentary Education Office.

Running an election in your school (AEC) [pdf file]

You and me, the decision makers (AEC) [pdf file]
What do we mean by democracy? Can we all make the decisions?

ICT (Computing) activities: data use suggestion
The three csv-format data files of divisions, parties and polling places at 2010 Federal Election Media Feed (AEC) could be used in classroom spreadsheet and database activities.
- For more csv files see Election Results Data above for The Official 2007 Federal Election Results - Downloads in csv-format files 2007.

BTN (Behind the News)
See under Videos above.