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This blog is dedicated to personal responses of voters to political developments in the lead up to two elections, to be held in 2007: the New South Wales State election on 24 March 2007 and the Federal election, due in October-November 2007.

In NSW, it is likely that the outcome of the election will be a rise in numbers of the cross-bench MPs, who belong to nether the present Labor government nor the Liberal-National Coalition opposition. A Coalition win is all but unlikely, but this should not deter their leadership, as it is likely that Labor may not win government in their own right. A minority government, behoven to votes of minor parties, independents or single-issue candidates is not out of the question.

On the Federal arena, things are even more interesting to watch. The immediate past leader of the Labor Opposition noted that it will be a make-or-break election for both sides Parliament. Should the Coalition lose, all major jurisdictions in Ausytalia would be under control of the same party. Should Labor lose, it will effectively write the party off fedeally, as their core constiency - the labor movement - is likely to turn away through disaffection. Labor would be powerless in tempering the Federal government's centraliation of power, redefining Federal-Sate relation by stealth, in areas of industrial relations and education to begin with. Things, however, are not quite so starkly separated and many permutations are possible, including an amusing possibility that the Prime Minister will lose his seat, but the Coalition would be returned, or that independents may hold the balance of power.

This blog is likely to have a number of authors through its life.