The fortnightly Essential Research should also be along on Tuesday, and as always Roy Morgan will come through on Monday. The party will have to reopen nominations in Braddon, for which the failure of Pearce or anyone else to nominate last week was the first indication of his impending retirement. Both were candidates in Braddon at the March state election, respectively polling 2.1% and 2.6% on a Liberal ticket dominated by Premier Jeremy Rockliff. • Another retirement announcement last week was that of Maria Vamvakinou, who has held the safe Labor seat of Calwell in northern Melbourne since 2001. This would require reopening nominations for the seat, but Kean would likely have enough support to accomplish this.
