The coalition immediately slashed the corporation's budget by $66 million, despite the senator's famously promising on the tally room floor that they wouldn't.
Once upon a time, the tally room was the only place you could get an overall picture of the progress of counting in the election.
Far away from the tally rooms and the victory parties, many South Africans are still living in poverty.
He told a great story about being at the tally room during the last election call and being suicidally depressed.
I am bitterly disappointed that they won't be covering the tally room.
He and his wife have just arrived here in the tally room in Canberra.
There's a discrepancy between the accounts of their observers and scrutineers at a local level, and the figures that appeared at the central tally room.
They seem unlikely to look forward to visiting the tally room this September.
The decline of the tally room has nothing to do with perceptions of how close the election is going to be.
I can tell you what it was like on the floor of the tally room just three years later.