'Quiet Australians' are the latest to upset election forecasters' expectations


  • World
  • Monday, 20 May 2019

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The group responsible for Australia's top opinion poll and an industry body for market research will review their methods to uncover how pollsters came to wrongly predict a victory for the opposition in the general election, they said on Monday.

Saturday's win by Australia's Liberal-led conservative government defied years of unfavorable opinion polls and bruised a Labor opposition that had widely been expected to triumph.

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