What Australia Thinks: A History of Australian Public Opinion Polls

在现代社会，民意调查是政治中一个日益突出和有问题的部分。该项目预计将产生一部澳大利亚历史，记录并解释自1941年民调引入澳大利亚以来，民调人员的多样化和不断变化的方法、优先事项和风格。它的目的是检查媒体对民调的日益增长的报道，它们的影响，以及它们所产生的争议，以及民调在预测选民行为方面的表现。该项目结合了档案研究、口述历史和量化方法，旨在丰富我们对全国和跨国民调的性质、后果和历史的理解。它还旨在建立一个包含超过75年的民意调查结果的数据库。

Opinion polls are an increasingly prominent and problematic part of politics in modern societies. This project is expected to produce an Australian history that documents and explains the diverse and changing methods, priorities and styles of the pollsters since polling was introduced to Australia in 1941. It aims to examine the growing media coverage of the polls, their impact, and the controversies they have engendered as well as the performances of polls in predicting voter behaviour. Combining archival research, oral histories and quantitative methods, the project aims to enrich our understanding of the nature, consequences and history of polling nationally and transnationally. It also aims to produce a database containing over 75 years of poll results.