Yeah it'd be really interesting (and perhaps better aligned to how we do "xyz artist was robbed" if they summed votes by artist, and then picked the top song for each artist.

Fucksake if there's one thing TMR could be better at for very cheap, it's four sided crossings.

Because by occupying one of the 6 traffic lanes for a period of about half an hour, "people's right to freedom of movement would be excessively interfered with".

So people's right to freedom of movement being completely denied for months without end is fine, but impeding a few cars is a problem.

In that case -

Portland or Mt Gambier (if it's not too big already) can anchor MEL-ADL HSR

Sale or Bairnsdale should have better water prospects and are also not *too* bad climate wise

What's the functional difference between Goulburn at 2M and Sydney sprawling its way through the southern highlands to Canberra?

How big can the starting city be?

If it's just "sub 500k" then I pick Hobart

I compare Qld House and Senate 3CPs and 4CPs (where available) from the last election here:

abjago.net/psephology/2...

Yeah that seems safe enough - it'd take both a huge 2PP correction to break from 3L 3R and also enough GRN-ALP...

I think we really have to wait for the early & postal votes on this one before celebrating too hard. We've been seeing early/Eday differences for a long time and there's more early voting than ever...

Yeah like what is this, 2017 state election levels of performance right here

I think the most effective intervention would be to tilt the scales against negative campaigning, just a bit.

My proposal is that if you mention a different disclosure entity (by name/logo/likeness) then your own name/logo/likeness must be at least as prominent.

Electoral donations?

(Though that one is content neutral; you could receive the same tax deduction for a donation to an anti racist party.)

Depends on if you care more about exclusion order effects, or later-no-harm.

The nice thing about LNH is that it supports giving a full ranking

Nothing dramatic, we just couldn't quite lock in a second candidate to make it a ticket.

I seriously doubt any part of Fusion is going to make money off this election.
If only we could monetise all the rocks thrown at us in the last couple of days!