When it comes to elections, bookies are perhaps an even better form guide than the plethora of public and private opinion polls that generate a blizzard of media coverage.
This applies to Saturday’s five by-elections as much as any other.
Let’s set aside the by-elections in Perth and Fremantle. With the Liberals’ cowardly and lazy refusal to contest, the Labor candidates there could be caught in flagrante with a goat and still win.
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