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Essays & Reportage Did late deciders confound the polls? Murray Goot 19 September 2019 Predictions of the 2019 election result were way off the mark. But we still don’t know why Essays & Reportage Who controls opinion polling in Australia, what else we need to know about the polls, and why it matters Murray Goot 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 Polls and the pendulum Murray Goot 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 Israel and the Palestinians: public opinion and public policy Murray Goot 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