That split ought to give Labour a decent advantage in terms of seats because of a bias in the electoral system; Labour seats tend to cluster in constituencies with smaller electorates.
Labor has ridiculed moves by some Coalition MPs, including frontbencher Christopher Pyne, to petition the ABC to stop cuts in their electorates.
The decision to axe regional ABC facilities is a political one used to inflict pain on Coalition electorates, a government MP has told Guardian Australia.
The vote of confidence their respective electorates gave them is also a clear rebuff to the republican dissidents seeking to destabilise Northern Ireland through their renewed violent campaigns.
Rowan Ramsay, the Liberal member for Grey, which covers Port Augusta, has slammed Scott and the ABC board for the cut to regional electorates, which are Coalition strongholds.
We've got a farcical situation where we've got MPs pleading for immunity from cuts for their electorates".
A ReachTEL poll in six Coalition-held marginals was commissioned by the Australian Council of Trade Unions as it plans a multimillion dollar grassroots campaign against the Abbott government in 30 electorates across the country.
Their enrolment addresses were found to have been contradicted by home addresses in other electorates, job and study locations, previous enrolment data, and profiles and output on social media platforms including Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, News Corp says.
By handing tax-raising powers to local government Osborne could let them relieve some of the pain of cuts and answer for higher local taxes to their electorates, not to him.
After all, if electorates can't imagine that there are real people suffering the consequences of war, they are less likely to protest.
And both spoke with such plain eloquence about these things that they won the trust of their electorates and, with it, the power to transform their nations and – in time – the world.
