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1998 Election Form Guide
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Part One (House Of Representatives) | Part Two (The Senate)
Part Three (The Leaders) | Downloads

Part One - House Of Representatives

TOPIC (linked to
background information)		 Past Future TOTAL
 Labor Coalition  Labor Coalition  Labor Coalition
Industrial Relations +2 -3 +2 -3 +4 -6
Gun laws +1 +4 +1 +1 +2 +5
Higher Education +2 -3 +3 -2 +5 -5
School education 0 -1 +1 -1 +1 -2
Child Care +1 -3 +1 0 +2 -3
Employment 0 -3 +1 -1 +1 -4
Taxation Reform 0 +1 +2 -3 +2 -2
Family Law/Child Support -3 -3 -3 -4 -6 -7
Health -1 -3 +3 -3 +2 -6
Social security -1 -3 +1 0 0 -3
Retirement income 0 +3 ? ? 0 +3
Legal Aid -1 -2 ? ? -1 -2
Communications & Telstra -1 -3 +2 -4 +1 -7
Totals -1 -19 +14 -20 +13 -39

This information was updated on Saturday 19 September 1998

Notes on Form Guide Part One

Part Two - The Senate
Part Three - The Leaders

PARTY
(linked to background information)

In
Government
%

Future
Policies
%

TOTAL

%
Coalition 31 30 31
John Howard     28
Labor 50 64 57
Kim Beazley     54
Australian Democrats   70 70
Australian Greens   65 65
Australian Women’s Party   50 50
One Nation   0 0
FLR – AFC/CS - AMP   0 0
Unity   Unscored Unscored

This table produced on Sunday 27 September 1998

Notes on Form Guide Part Two
The election where no one will really win,
but we can at least choose to stay on track

Notes and Background on Form Guide Part Three

Downloads

All the information relating to the Form Guide can be downloaded for offline reading:

formguid.rtf
(165K Rich Text Format file containing all documents released on 18/9/98)
formgd2.rtf
(258K Rich Text Format file containing all documents released on 27/9/98)

or

formguid.zip
(an approx. 45K compressed file containing all web pages relating to the Form Guide)
You will need software like WinZip or Pkzip to unpack this file.
The resulting .htm files can be read with your browser.

For further information please contact:

Kathleen Swinbourne
welnsw@mail.comcen.com.au
Helen Leonard
welaust@dynamite.com.au

WEL Australia
PO Box 191, CIVIC SQUARE ACT 2608
Ph: 02 62476679 Fax: 02 62474669

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