Creating Public Opinion: Polls, the Press and Australian Politics since the 1940s

自20世纪40年代以来，新闻界和政党自20世纪60年代以来定期委托进行的民意调查改变了我们对民意的理解，影响了政治报道的方式，并改变了政治领导人的行为方式和政党的竞选方式。到目前为止，所有这些都没有得到适当的记录或有效的分析。该项目将帮助那些参与民意研究，政治新闻和议会政治的人反思他们的做法的优点和缺点。它将使社区中的其他人了解发生了什么变化、如何变化以及为什么变化。

Opinion polls, commissioned regularly by the press since the 1940s and by political parties since the 1960s, have altered our understandings of public opinion, affected the way politics is reported, and transformed the ways in which political leaders act and the parties campaign. Until now, none of this has been properly documented or effectively analysed. This project will help those involved in public opinion research, political journalism, and parliamentary politics to reflect on the strength and weaknesses of their practices. It will allow others in the community to understand what has changed, how it has changed, and why.