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Page 1 of 11  Again we see the possibility that Galaxy has been push polling. On the News Ltd website there are two different interactive versions of the Galaxy poll - one with a total of 5 questions, and one with a total of 9. The questions are numbered, thus suggesting they were asked in that order.
Let's have a close look at these questions...
First up, the "short" version, which can be found online here.  Nothing wrong here, the voting intention is asked first, as it should be. However, let us now consider the long version of this poll, which can be found online here. 
There is something very wrong if this shows the true order of polling questions. As I previously stated, questions on voting intention should be asked first - however here we see a question on whether or not you "know enough about Kevin Rudd to have formed your opinion already or are you reserving judgement?". This is a question which could create doubt in the minds of those answering the survey. It is followed by a question on whether you are better or worse off compared to three years ago - again this could be seen to put greater emphasis on the state of the economy, something which could potentially boost the Coalition vote. Questions 3 & 4 are on whether the two main parties deserve to win the election. Impact on voting intention is probably negligble - but these questions should still not be asked before voting intention. Only at question 5 do we see one on voting intention. What is going on here? David Briggs, the head of Galaxy Polling, is an unashamed Coalition supporter. He wouldn't modify the questioning to benefit his side of politics - would he? Couldn't be trying to shift the media narrative? No... never!
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1. Written by
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, on 20-10-2007 06:02
Error by the courier mail's graphic department. Don't read anything into it. Galaxy, like all the main pollsters ask voting intention and ppm first.
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2. Written by JJ, on 20-10-2007 06:14
How can we be sure? Similar things are said to have occurred post-budget...
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, on 20-10-2007 07:49
We have the instance earlier in the year, another 53/47, that confirmed push polling, as a bloggers sister was polled and he went and confirmed it with her what had happened. All the negative questions asked first - then the voting intention. Well, that is what he said.
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4. Written by Tobe, on 20-10-2007 08:41
That's a pretty strange graphics error James. You think the graphics people also made up the questions, because the leading questions aren't on the "correct" list?
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5. On theses & Murdock control
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, on 20-10-2007 23:11
I thought, while you're heavily into thesis avoidance, you might enjoy ...
35 years ago (any day up till 15 Nov), it was Gough v Billy McM. I'm "It's Timing" like crazy. A friend is standing for the ALP locally & Gough & Marg came to his launch party ....& I'm sweating over my Litt B dissertation - on Aust foreign policy Dec 1941- May 25th 1942 (Doc Evatt's ?Leeds Town Hall speech - the official end of the OzGov v Churchill stand-off) ... had to be at UNE by 17 Nov.
I'd had a beautifully (I thought) argued 30,000w when, at the beginning of October, the OzGov abruptly changed its 50 year ban on releasing Cabinet docs to 30 years - that's Oct 42! YIKES!
Very hurried perusal of cab docs - Bloody hell, S*** - every expletive I knew! I'd have to bin most of those 30K; but ... Desperate phone call to UNE (I live 10K west of Noosa). NO EXTENTION. BLOODY HELL!
One of my findings had been a press "Black hole" that appeared c24 Feb 42. (I think it's the 24th) From the day the Japs sank the "Repulse" & "Prince of Wales", there had been a crescendo of anti-Brit, esp anti-Churchill letters to the editor & reporting, esp in "THe Bulletin". Churchill's gravest Crimes against Our Troops were raked up - Gallipoli. Greece & Crete, Western Desert ...
As disasters multiplied, Singapore fell, Darwin was bombed, calls for an instant break from the Empire reached a screaming climax, then ... STOPPED!
I'd first found it in the Courier Mail. As I read my paper way around Australian - same thing; same day! It HAD to be a press conspiracy and, given the PM was a card-carrying AJA member, it had to be Curtain. If it were Curtain, it had to be mate Keith Murdock as Enforcer.
So I went back over every shred of paper I had - Cabinet documents, cartons of photocopies & Microfiche print-outs, books, journal articles, theses published & unpublished, everything Hasluck, Casey etc wrote, interview tapes ....... NOTHING
Would I take out my beloved Black Hole? No way! I had enough evidence that an abrupt end to crit of Brits by every paper in the Land was not a co-incidence. (Besides, it and the first couple of chapters were all that was left of the original draft, & by this time, I was scribbling like mad & husband was driving pages up to the typist.)
It took until the mid- late 1990s for proof positive That Big Keith had organised it for Curtain. (Yes, I got my degree & Yes I enjoyed the last fortnight of the campaign.)
I often wonder if what drives Rupert is a deep desire to trump the control Keith was able to exert over Oz's wartime media.
LOT OF EMPATHY (& SYMPATHY) FROM THIS OLD DUCK, JJ!
& I hope this is a Bloody good omen JJ!
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