Name
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URL
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Description
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ABC Campaign Pulse |
www.campaignpulse.abc.net.au/ |
ABC's coverage of the election, including tracking twitter sentiment |
ACF environment election scorecard |
www.acfonline.org.au/articles/news.asp?news_id=3044 |
Environmental scorecard of election promises and policies by parties. |
Aussies vote
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www.aussiesvote.com
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An election dashboard covering the state of the parliament, online media coverage and tweets related to the election.
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Australia2 |
www.australia2.org.au |
A site dedicated to allowing Australians to define their priorities for Australia. |
Below the line |
http://belowtheline.cc/ |
The tool on this site lets you prepare your below-the-line senate vote ahead of the big day, reordering candidates individually or by group. Once you’re happy with it, you can print it out in a form that’s easy to transcribe on to the real ballot paper on polling day. |
Below the line |
http://www.belowtheline.org.au/ |
Another tool for preparing a vote and seeing where preferences are directed |
Buzzelection
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www.buzzelection.com
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Almost real-time social media monitoring of election discussions online via Twitter.
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EFA Election guide |
www.efa.org.au/2010/08/10/ausvotes-2010-party-policy-guide-is-now-available/ |
Technology guide of election promises and policies by parties. |
Election10 |
www.election10.com.au |
A blog discussing the use of social media in the federal election. |
Election Blackout |
www.electionblackout.com |
This group blog covers the politics, policy and prognosticating of the 2010 federal election. |
Election leaflets
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www.electionleaflets.org.au
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A searchable photographic online record of election leaflets handed out during the election, crowd sourced from the public.
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ElectionWIRE |
www.youtube.com/youthscape?utm_source=google-au&utm_medium=landingpage&utm_campaign=election2010 |
Vibewire and Youtube working together with 14 young journalists to present a youth view of the election. The public can submit their own reports or story ideas. |
Google Federal Election 2010 map |
www.google.com.au/intl/en/landing/elections2010/ |
Interactive map of electorates, their margins and polling booths. |
Google Student Voice |
www.google.com.au/intl/en/landing/studentvoice2010/#utm_campaign=en_au&utm_source=en_au-lp-apac-au-election&utm_medium=lp |
An opportunity for Australians under 18 to vote in a pseudo-election. The results will be compared to the actual election outcomes. |
MyPolitician |
www.mypolitician.com.au |
Provides alternate ways to rate and compare politicians to inform voters. |
NTEU higher education election scorecard |
www.nteu.org.au/campaigns/federal_election_2010/questionnaire |
National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) scorecard of higher education policies based on questions to political parties.
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Our Say
|
www.oursay.org
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A site promoting informed debate through allowing the community to directly ask and vote for questions to federal candidates.
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Policies wiki |
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AgwGFHFd0TUIdExCbkNZWllUaVRsRG9yZXVVTXhUN0E&hl=en&authkey=CJu2lp8P#gid=0 |
Policies for all parties and their positions on various issues. |
Politics Brief
|
www.politicsbrief.com 
|
A comprehensive coverage of the election campaign containing a daily breakdown of polls, promises, quotes and pictures.
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SMH Vote-a-matic |
www.smh.com.au/federal-election/vote-a-matic/index.html |
Tool for assessing which political parties individuals more closely agree with. |
Squawky Politics and Twitter sentiment |
http://www.squawky.net/project/australian-politics |
Tracks sentiment for Australian politicians expressed on Twitter. |
The Social Election 2010 (Amnesia-Razorfish) |
www.thesocialelection.amnesiarazorfish.com.au/ |
Blog commentating on the social media aspects of the 2010 election. |
Twit worm
|
www.twitworm.com.au |
Debate worm developed to use twitter comments to track sentiment during election debates.
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Visual Democracy
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www.visdem.com
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Provides an election overview with day-by-day election coverage drawn from online sources. A hub linking to a variety of targeted election monitoring tools.
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What Do You Think |
www.whatdoyouthinkithink.com |
Election-related polls submitted by the community. |
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