To quote Stuart Nixon (source),

NearMap could map all of Australia for just $75 million (and at vastly higher quality, with free use by all Australians and Government agencies). This compares favourably to the $48 million or so that MDBA would expect to pay to just map the Murray Darling Basin (which covers 15% of Australia) based on their Stage 1 tender.

To be fair I should also consider the details of the license agreements that each offer their imagery under...

Also from his letter,

In July 2009 MDBA issued a "Stage 1" tender to cover 5% or 50,000km2 of the Basin. NearMap's $1.1 million offer provided 1 meter Terrain and 10cm ortho-photo maps. Instead, the tender was awarded to the overseas company Intermap Technologies at a cost of about $2.4 million for 5 meter terrain and 60 cm ortho-radar maps. The "Stage 1" tender is a precursor to obtaining terrain and photo maps for the remaining 95% of the Basin. NearMap's all-of-Basin solution would save $26 million compared to overseas suppliers.

If only I had time to investigate further.

The AEC has publish the group voting tickets for the Senate for the upcoming 2010 Federal Election. I didn't think the provided format was very usable (and I couldn't see the dataset in machine readable form), so here is the GVT for "the three main" parties with preferences listed in order for NSW. (It would take too long for me to do every party, but you can construct your own tables for the other parties from the AEC's published PDFs)

Labor

Liberal/Nationals ("The Coalition")

The Greens