The Lord Mayoral candidates in the upcoming City of Sydney election have put startup policies front and centre, talking up their vision for Sydney to become a global tech leader.
Over the course of the 18 months I worked at Newspoll, the market research organisation behind The Australian newspaper’s fortnightly political opinion poll, I saw three different Prime Ministers in office, with those very opinion polls I was helping to conduct leading to the demise of two of them. But while opinion polls have developed an extraordinary power in Australian politics, their accuracy is questionable.
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