There’s still one day to go until the Federal Election and polls are close but a prophetic peacock in Narrabundah has already called the election outcome, adding yet another bold political prediction feather to his hat.
Percy is known locally as a “Narrabundah chicken”, one of many peacocks roaming the residential streets and he’s built a fine reputation as a political analyst — even rivalling ABC election analyst Antony Green.
Under strict scrutiny from unbiased observers, Percy was today given two selections of birdseed to choose from — Labor or Liberal.
Full disclosure: a few corn kernels were accidentally spilt close to the Liberal sign. However, while Percy and girlfriend Prudence (peafowl psephologist) nibbled on these as they approached the Liberal sign — Percy promptly made a sharp left hand turn to eat from the Labor sign.
It’s official folks, Percy has called it, and his past two predictions have proven correct (he predicted US President Trump’s win in the recent US election and also Chief Minister Andrew Barr’s win in the last ACT election).
Narrabundah resident Timothy DeWan, who’s convenor of Save The Narrabundah Peafowl, said he was surprised by Percy’s perceptive abilities.
“He chose Trump, it was really extraordinary as it wasn’t expected and I never would have thought it,” Tim said. “It’s his ability to choose things, or he just liked the seed selection, who knows.”
Tim assured us that each political prediction was carried out under strict protocols that the Australian Electoral Commission would surely approve of. The birdseed for both parties was identical in both quantity and content (black sunflower seeds and corn kernels).
“I don’t do favouritism, it’s all above board,” Tim said. “Percy seems to be mostly only interested in politics, being a Canberra peafowl, so we haven’t tried to predict sporting events. Whether his politics is more to the left or the right, or he just knows which way the wind is blowing — which is a very important thing because they don’t like the wind. He may be correct this time, who knows.
“He hasn’t been watching any of the campaign election coverage on TV, he doesn’t want to be swayed by any potential bias. He waits until the opportunity arises and he and Antony Green make a decision. Every time he’s called it, he’s done it before Antony Green.”
According to election analyst Antony Green, as of Tuesday 29 April, 4,036,060 pre-poll votes had been taken, representing 22.3% of enrolment. A total of 2,470,757 postal vote packages have been dispatched representing 13.7% of enrolment.
Final polls from various firms have Labor as likely to form government.
