Politics

Interactive: Politics Explorer

The Australian Financial Review’s Politics Explorer allows readers to see the party and margin of each federal House of Representatives seat and work out how the polls might impact this distribution. There are two key parts to the interactive database: 1) The Swing Calculator simulates the change in seats based…

Federal Election 2013: The Social Media View

Social media will be a key battleground in this year’s Federal Election with the major parties using Twitter, Facebook and YoutTube to get their message out and fire up their supporter base. The Financial Review has developed an interactive database of the key stats for all the federal politicians on…

Infographic | Australians who don’t pay tax: what would Romney say?

The debate over the “47 per cent” of American adults who Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says don’t pay income tax caused a firestorm across the US this week. An analysis by The Weekend Financial Review has found that the proportion of Australian adults who don’t pay tax is almost as high,…