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OTTAWA Barack Obamas vote-getting days may be over, but the U.S. presidents campaign machinery and its methods seem destined to be a part of Canadas federal election in 2015.

New Democrats and Liberals, in a bid to catch up with the Conservatives long-held advantage in digital and data campaigning, have been looking south, to U.S. Democrats in particular, for advice on how best to fight the next election here.

From consulting former Obama staffers to sending trainees to work with Democrats in the U.S. mid-terms to outright imitation the Liberals and NDP have been amassing the newest tools of the trade to trot out for Canadas big day at the polls in 2015.

Were definitely going to see a lot of Obama tactics at play, says Jennifer Hollett, a potential candidate in Torontos University-Rosedale riding in 2015, who has been at the forefront of the NDPs efforts to modernize the partys campaign machinery.

The Liberals national director, Jeremy Broadhurst, also acknowledges his party has dipped deeply into the Democrats well of knowledge.

We closely follow developments in American political techniques as we do in a variety of different jurisdictions, Broadhurst says, adding Obamas people have much to teach Canadians on recruiting, engaging and mobilizing new volunteers to politics.

Toronto residents may have already had a bit of a sneak preview of Obama: the Sequel (North of 49th Parallel Edition). Peter Tanner, 32, works in Torontos financial sector these days but celebrated his 30th birthday working as a data analyst at Obama headquarters in Chicago on election night in 2012.

He wasnt the only Canadian expatriate working there either at least four other people among the approximately 50 members of Obamas analytics team were dual, Canada-U.S. citizens.

Its not magic, Tanner says whenever hes asked about whether Big Data can win campaigns. However, in close races, analytics can make a big difference, Tanner says, especially if political parties concentrate their data efforts on finding voters beyond the already declared supporters.

The 2015 campaign in Canada could well be close and it could turn on the ability of all parties to get tuned-out citizens to the polls, as Obamas team did in 2008 and 2012.

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Labor has extended its two-party-preferred lead over the Liberals in SA, the latest Newspoll shows.

South Australia's Labor government has capped off a strong year with a surge in voter support, the latest Newspoll shows.

The News Corp Australia poll, published on Wednesday, shows Labor has a two-party-preferred lead of 53 to 47 per cent over the Liberal opposition.

The Liberals' primary vote has plunged from 44.8 per cent at the March state election to just 33 per cent, with Labor claiming 35 per cent of the vote.

Voters overwhelmingly backed Premier Jay Weatherill, with 47 per cent of voters nominating him as preferred leader compared with 29 per cent for Steven Marshall.

The results will come as another blow to the Liberals, who had been widely expected to reclaim power at the March election after 12 years in opposition.

Despite claiming 53 per cent of the two-party vote, the Liberals failed to win key marginal seats, paving the way for Labor to form minority government with the support of independents.

Labor shored up its parliamentary numbers in May when former Liberal leader Martin Hamilton-Smith made a shock defection, throwing his support behind the government as an independent cabinet minister.

The Liberals' woes deepened in December when Labor claimed a stunning win in a by-election for the southern suburbs seat of Fisher, once considered safe Liberal territory.

Labor's victory was driven partly by a strong negative campaign on federal issues, including Abbott government cuts to health spending and uncertainty about future submarines contracts.

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'The coalition committed $10 million towards an online safety for children policy.': Malcolm Turnbull. Photo: Rob Homer

Since the Coalition took power in September, Malcolm Turnbull has valiantly played the happy Communications Minister - uninterested in higher office, perfectly content plugging copper into Labor's national broadband network and axing redundant legislation. On Wednesday, the Abbott government will hold its first ''repeal day'', with Turnbull overseeing about half of the 8000 repeals.

But there's a fly in Turnbull's deregulation soup. If you want to make the loquacious free-marketer go quiet, ask him about his understudy Paul Fletcher's plan to introduce a new ''children's e-safety commissioner'' with the power to force social media sites to take down content deemed harmful to children.

Celebrated by anti-bullying groups, the policy is strongly opposed by social media companies, telecommunications firms and newly appointed Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson.

The idea emerged from the Coalition's online safety working group, set up by Tony Abbott in opposition, which travelled around the country to talk to parents, students and teachers about cyber bullying.

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Victorian Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie, a member of the group, says she was disturbed to learn about a Bendigo Facebook page, ''Benders root rater'', which judged the sexual performance of teenagers as young as 13.

''The men involved in that site eventually have been sentenced, or received suspended sentences, but that was a year after the page went viral.''

Fletcher, chairman of the working group and now parliamentary secretary for communications, says: ''Twenty or 30 years ago, if you were bullied at school, you could at least go home and feel safe That's not the case any more. All the major sites have complaint schemes but the feedback we got was that, when people report problems, the experience is not always what they want it to be.''

Fletcher's solution is to appoint an official with the power to issue ''rapid removal'' orders if large social media companies refuse, or are too slow, to remove material deemed harmful to someone under 18. The government is also considering creating a new Commonwealth cyber-bullying offence.

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