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On Tuesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released dwelling approvals data for March, which recorded an 8.8% monthly fall to 15,220 approvals. House approvals fell by 4.5% in March, while unit & apartment approvals fell by 15.1%. Annual approvals rose to 180,740, up 10% on the June 2024 low of 164,254. As illustrated below,
For tonight’s update, I’m going to first touch on the races I included in this morning’s post and how they have changed. Those are the seats that are conventional close races.
Then I will turn my focus to the seats where the two-candidate-preferred count has been recalibrated to a different pair of candidates. In these seats there has been some significant progress today towards resolving these seats.
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I spent most of the election weekend down in Sydney, finishing a book in my hotel room and giving a talk at that architecture conference.
It went very well, thank you.
Both the talk—and, of course, the election.
It had been a while since I’d spent much time in the centre of Sydney. When I go down, I usually stay out at Bondi—my old hood. But I hadn’t been in the city proper for any serious stretch of time since the light rail went into George Street, and I was really surprised by how much of a difference it’s made to the CBD.
Like, completely transformed it.