ANDREW CATSARAS, POLLING ANALYST: Well there's been further movement in the polls following the elevation of Kevin Rudd, and because we now have eight pollsters providing us with a great deal of data, I can present the figures in more detail.

Now the ALP's primary vote is on 39.6, which is up 1.8. The Coalition is on 43.6, which is steady. The Greens are on 8.6m which is down 0.7. And the Others group, which consists of minor parties and independents, is on 8.2, which is down 1.1.

And that translates to a two party preferred vote of 50.2 to 49.8 in favour of the Coalition.

And if we look at the two party preferred graph, we can clearly see how the gap between the two parties has tightened dramatically.

Now with respect to the better prime minister figures; Kevin Rudd leads Tony Abbott by 51 points to 34.

And if we look at the better prime minister graph, we can see how Kevin Rudd continues to hold a large lead over Tony Abbott.

Now, while over the last month the national figures have shown an improvement in the ALP's position to be at almost 50/50, once again it's the swings at the state level and the impact that has on the change of seats that are the most instructive:

Now in New South Wales there's now a swing to the Government of 0.6 per cent, which indicates no net change of seats.

In Victoria the swing against the Government is 3.5 per cent, which would see a loss of three seats.

In Queensland the swing to the Government is at 3.3 per cent, which suggests that the Government will win six seats.

In South Australia the swing against the Government has come back a fair way to measure at only 1.7 per cent, which indicates no net change of seats.

In Western Australia there's now a swing to the Government of 1.4 per cent, which suggests that the Government will win one additional seat.

In Tasmania, we are now getting more data and it suggests the swing against the Government measures at 7.8 per cent, which would see a loss of two seats.

In the Northern Territory, the swing against the Government is at 3 per cent, so no net change of seats.

And in the ACT (Australian Capital Territory), the swing against the Government is at 0.8 per cent, so again no net change of seats.

So in total, that means that the ALP will pick up a net of two seats, placing them on 74 seats; the Coalition on 73, two independents - Bob Katter and Andrew Wilkie - and either a Green or another ALP member in the seat of Melbourne, depending on Liberal Party preferences.

So yes, my fellow citizens, once again I can report that that would be another hung parliament.

But swings are not uniform. And as we can see, the national swing is currently measuring at 0.3 per cent against the Government, yet the state swings are markedly different.

So too will be the swings within the states, and until we get comprehensive marginal seat polling from several independent research agencies, we won't truly know how these states swings will truly play out.

What we can say is that currently the Coalition is somewhat better placed, simply because it is notionally sitting on 75 seats and needs only one more to form a majority, whereas the ALP is sitting on 72 and needs to pick up four.

Nevertheless, I don't think either party would feel confident of victory until it picks at least another 1 per cent on its two party preferred vote to consistently poll at 51 per cent.

And the most effective way to do that is to pick up that 1 per cent from the primary vote of the opposing major party.

Now that 1 per cent translates to about 140,000 voters.

With that in mind, if you think that the campaigning so far has been rather intense, all I can say to that, is this:

Al Jolson (in The Jazz Singer, 1927): You ain't heard nothin' yet! Wait a minute, I tell ya! You ain't heard nothin'!