Kudos to Roy Morgan Research it appears for being the pollster who picked the swing to the ALP most closely. Their election eve poll showed a 6.2% two party preferred swing to the ALP and the results as of Sunday morning have it down as 6.15%. In anyone’s books and given the inherent issue of sampling error, thats not half bad!.

Of course one could be picky and look at the accuracy of their predictions for the marginals, but that is being unreasonably pedantic and frankly beyond the scope of any poll to be expected to get those accurate. All in all they got more right than they got wrong and on such small samples in marginal electorates thats a testament to Morgan’s methodology and Gary’s insight on how to interpret the findings.

The New Luxury Signal: Emotional Stability

The New Luxury Signal: Emotional Stability

Luxury resorts used to sell status and spectacle. Now they sell something quieter: relief. Guests arrive overloaded, and the best resorts are redesigning around sensory calm, reduced friction, and emotional steadiness. Modern luxury is less about what you add, and more about what you remove.

When a town becomes the Shock Absorber

When a town becomes the Shock Absorber

The closure of AKD’s Yarram mill is more than a job loss. It’s a systemic emergency that exposes how vulnerable small towns become when economic shocks arrive without a formal response system. Yarram’s community is already mobilising, but goodwill alone can’t carry what should be a structured, predictable framework for regional crises.