The latest Essential Research poll finds the parties locked in their post-carbon tax stasis, with the Coalition steady on 47 per cent, Labor steady on 35 per cent, the Greens up one to 10 per cent and two-party preferred steady on 54-46. The survey also includes the monthly approval rating, and finds both recovering from poor showings last time: Julia Gillard up four on approval to 41 per cent and down two on disapproval to 48 per cent, Tony Abbott up six on approval to 42 per cent and down four on disapproval 44 per cent (a trend replicated elsewhere), and Gillard’s preferred prime minister rating has narrowed fractionlly from 42-33 to 43-35. Further questions on the budget find 45 per cent believe the economy to be headed in the right direction – down six on post-2010 budget – and wrong direction up four to 29 per cent. Respondents were also asked about world terrorism and the death of Osama bin Laden, and a further question about our involvement in Afghanistan found opposition continuing to harden: those favouring an increase in troop numbers have dropped from 10 per cent to 5 per cent, those favouring withdrawal are up from 47 per cent to 56 per cent, while support for the existing commitment is steady on 30 per cent.
Steady as she goes then.
I agree and this deserves tweeting so I did.
Stasis will only last until compensation package comes out.
Methinks Abbottabad is crying foul that no CC elements are in budget because he KNOW once the details are out the votes will begin to turn.
He wanted it to be lost in the budget ‘bad news’.
William,
I assume you got my email ? 🙂
Let’s just say Warren mitchell was very accurate – excepty for his prediction of the election of a Female British PM 🙂
Heard a rumour that the Australia Council is facing the axe.
Budget in reply: “But, but, but …”
Sarah HY just said we should be taking in the people who have been assessed in an orderly manner. Pardon? Isn’t that part of the agreement with Malaysia?
That wasn’t a part of the 2020 summit!
VP,
you missed the ‘but’ chest thump, ‘but’ chest thrust and thump, ‘BUT!’ bruising chest thump, red face, spittle flying onto dispatch box …
Does SHY think Malaysia’ll put 4000 people on 150 planes and send them to Oz?
Bad maths: make that 15 planes.
Jen
That’s all fine for Sophie, but what about Tony?
Good grief. If she stopped bleating for 2 seconds, calmed down and listened to what the PM and minister have said, she wouldn’t embarrass herself with thought bubbles like this.
Seems we’re to get a “National Obesity Plan.” I thought …
Is Neilsen expected out tonight?
For music fans John Walker of The Walker Brothers died of cancer over the weekend. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NQQkfsieWc
I actually support the govt. on the as deal with Malaysia. Happy to accept 5-1 genuine refugees ratio rather than people trying to force their way in.
Joe6Pack
That’s what anyone might agree with if they had the facts, rather than the rubbish coming out atm.
🙂
The Govt has realised it is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on organisations whose sole role is to hand out Govt grants. There is a push to return this role to Govt Depts.
We saw it with environmental grants last budget.
Oh dear, the Luvvies over at LP will be Livid – the ALP abandoning the Yartz ??
THE GALL.
Speers just ‘admitted’ Labor’s policies didn’t get coverage in election!
Actually there were few savings on the adminsitrative end, just big reductions across the board in natural resource management grants.
Its funny, in all other sectors: health, social services, ageing, the NGO sector is doing more and more of the work. But in the enviro sector, the move is the other way.
Oh, bloody hell.
Yet again with the, “it was the others wot done it!!!”
Just one commission axed. 😛
I went to Paris in the mid-90’s, just for three nights. I would love to go back. I also want to go to Holland, and after the Dutch art, I want to see Ajax play. And if you read that as ‘ay-jacks’ instead of ‘eye-axe’, then you can clean the bathroom while I go to the football.
What does he mean?
Which policies?
So where was the taxpayer-funded public broadcaster?
… Oh, that’s right, wriggling into Abbottobad’s nether regions.
“The Federal Opposition says …”
huh?
Frank – have you read Paul Barry’s book on Murdoch. It gives a very revealing portrayal of Murdoch with the Kerr the day before the dismissal.
Gough didn’t have a clue what was going to hit him but Paul Barry reveals a lot.
Are you saying I shouldn’t agree?
I’m sure I read a Phillip Adams column in the last few years where he talked about the Australia Council’s halcyon days being well and truly in the past. Mind you, that comment was perhaps influenced by his ego. 😉
William
Have you read on Crikey that Newspoll have been accessed of push polling on a question about the CT? Several people here have asked if you are surprised. If you wish to read those comments/questions of you they appear about 60 to 90 minutes ago in the previous thread.
He said wtte: Many announcements this week were reannouncements because they didn’t get coverage during the election!
ooohhh Cuppa — scary mental pictures! Feeling vomity.
No Brittany, they are election commitments being put in place and funded via the first budget after the election. Twerp.
Perhaps William will be like The Fonz:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwkU8-d1gIk&NR=1
Surely if they were announced during the election campaign, and are ‘re-announced’ in the budget, they are actually the govt delivering on its election promises, not re-announcements?
Calling something a “conspiracy theory” is sometimes a means of trying to shame questioning people into keeping their mouths (and minds) shut.
Sorry, Jen, you’re right, it is disgusting. Roll on the petition!
His words … my focus was the admission that they weren’t covered in election — he said wtte: “well, y’know, because of other things like Mark Latham etc (he mentioned several things).”
Oh, Britney, you mean really IMPORTANT things?
From the Music Forum Midoztouch comes this gem which was upposedly funded by the SA Libs in 1967:
Full thread of the Discussion here:
http://pub44.bravenet.com/forum/static/show.php?usernum=3725630012&frmid=8&msgid=1010683&cmd=show
jen:
I’d like to think it was just Speers being clueless, but we first heard the ‘re-announcables’ last week (Maiden, I think), tweeting it as a way of dismissing the govt delivering on its promises.
Sounds like a concerted Murdochracy line of spin they are using to discredit the govt’s achievements. We really start calling these people out when we see things like this.
Frank,
That Marty Rhone song is catchy!
Joe6pack @ 30
Joe, I waited but it seems lizzie isn’t going to respond.
You have clearly misunderstood her response. She is saying anyone who had the facts might agree. However some people are being confused by rubbish that is coming out, presumably from Abbott & Co.
Cuppa,
So is measles
PT,
Spot on!
Ok thanks for that. I really think it is a good policy. Despite what some here believe I don’t hate as I just don’t rate it highly as a issue for me. I am quite happy as i said to accept 5 genuine refugees to 1 non genuine refugee.
On Capital Hill, Kate Lundy just debagged George Christensen and gave him a good going over. One line: the Nauru solution is just people warehousing. George gave a preview of the budget in reply speech – Three Word Slogans and no policies.
Poor Tony, he can’t take a trick.