Essays & reportage
12 March 2024
Is the Australian’s polling and commentary doing the opposition any favours?
Essays & reportage
25 July 2023
How Newspoll reports public opinion and how the Australian reports Newspoll
Essays & reportage
20 June 2023
Depending on the choices pollsters offer, the undecideds range all the way from none to two-thirds of respondents
National affairs
9 June 2023
Support for the Voice may not have dropped as much as the latest Newspoll suggests
Essays & reportage
15 May 2023
There are signs of a shift in strategy by the Yes forces, but are the polls keeping up?
Essays & reportage
5 July 2021
How skilfully has the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald’s new pollster gauged opinion on quarantine, cutting emissions, and China?
Essays & reportage
19 September 2019
Predictions of the 2019 election result were way off the mark. But we still don’t know why
Essays & reportage
15 May 2019
The decision by former Fairfax papers to sack one of their market researchers raised thorny questions about pollsters and their polls
Essays & reportage
17 June 2016
It’s wise to take care in interpreting the two-party-preferred poll figures and the 2016 electoral pendulum, writes Murray Goot
National affairs
22 February 2012
The evidence on Australian attitudes is much less clear than protagonists argue, writes Murray Goot, and the implications for public policy are far from straightforward
