Half a lifetime ago I know but gosh I look young.

Population density in Egypt

👀 Did you know that Tony Blair and John Curtice were at Oxford together in the 1970s?

🎸 'Tony Blair played in bands and I never went to gigs. And Tony Blair never did politics so our paths never crossed'.

A Times obituary with interesting link to 1920s NSW Labor politics. The Baroness was the eighth of nine children born to Greg McGirr, who after a factional dispute was NSW Labor Party leader for a month in 1923. And McGirr's grandson is Wagga Wagga Independent MP Dr Joe McGirr.

Here are the traditional types of playing cards used across Europe. Have you played with the cards shown in your region?

WA 1996, from memory the first time an Electoral Commission abandoned a traditional tally board and used television screens. Not a great success from memory.

BBC 2015 UK election. Green area in the background is where they do giant virtual studio graphics. There's a faint projection of the graphic, this one of Downing Street, so the presenter can see what he is doing.

Another old tally room, Tasmania 1992. When each electorate had a big board that they pit the numbers on. Was all video screen last month in Hobart.

This one has a story behind it.

Excuse the posts but I found a directory of old photos today. Leaving Serbia and entering the EU in 2019. On flying out of Prague, this may have triggered the puzzled look and odd question from the immigration officer about where I entered the EU.

How's this for my oldest publicity shot from 1996. And I just noticed I used that tie on the recent Tasmanian election.

For those who mentioned it, yes, the 1983 tally room was the last time a Liberal or Labor leader turned up.

Queensland election 2017. Now Premier Steven Miles at the end of the panel. Thunderbirds are go!

You just have to love the electorate map built into the set.

1977 - an early attempt at doing a Federal election coverage in studio rather than in a tally room. Afraid graphics and chroma key weren't very advanced in those days.

State of the art DEC VT100 terminals dominating desk space. And these days the set designers object to having laptops in shot!

1983 Federal Tally Room

It always looks clean on camera, but the technology out of shot is awesome.

2013 Federal election coverage

2016 Federal election rehearsals