Essential Research: 56-44 to Coalition

The latest Essential Research poll has Labor losing the ground it gained in last week’s result: their primary vote has dropped a point to 31 per cent, with the Coalition up one to 49 per cent, the Greens steady on 11 per cent and two-party preferred out from 55-45 to 56-44. Furthermore:

• Little change has been recorded on the carbon tax since an improved result a fortnight ago: approval is steady on 39 per cent and disapproval up two to 51 per cent. Exactly half of all respondents believe that Tony Abbott either doesn’t believe in or doesn’t care about climate change.

• The government’s “Malaysia solution” on asylum seekers has suffered a sharp decline in popularity since June 16: support is down nine points to 31 per cent and opposition up 14 to 53 per cent.

• “Trust in organisations to handle personal information” runs, from highest to lowest, the medical profession, banks, governments,Australian companies, online companies, political parties, foreign companies and the media.

Author: William Bowe

William Bowe is a Perth-based election analyst and occasional teacher of political science. His blog, The Poll Bludger, has existed in one form or another since 2004, and is one of the most heavily trafficked websites on Australian politics.

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  2. Finns

    Just what has Finns, Boerwar, Fukushima Inc been up to?

    [A leading computer security firm has used logs produced by a single server to trace the hacking of more than 70 corporations and government organizations over many months, and experts familiar with the analysis say the snooping probably originated in China.

    Among the targets were the Hong Kong and New York offices of the Associated Press, where unsuspecting reporters working on China issues clicked on infected links in e-mail, the experts said.

    Other targets included the networks of the International Olympic Committee, the United Nations secretariat, a U.S. Energy Department lab, and a dozen U.S. defense firms, according to a report to be released Wednesday by McAfee, a security firm that monitors network intrusions around the world.]

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/national-security/report-identifies-widespread-cyber-spying/2011/07/29/gIQAoTUmqI_story.html

  3. I envy you rich bastards. We were so poor we could not afford the whole binary system we had to do our programming entirely with zeros.

  6. [Finns, Boerwar, Fukushima Inc been up to?]

    Diog, the Board of FBFI will convene in Singapore next week to review the global hacking enterprises.

    Have invited Rupey to attend as an observer, #NewsCorpse is an amateur compared to FBFI

  8. This little black duck

    [poroti,

    Joh BP came from Danish stock through NZ. Lots of Danes have a bit of stiff-neck but, as far as I know, they are people you want to party with. If alcohol is not your thing, stay cool. Danish beer, Carlsberg and Tuborg]

    It was out of politeness that I did not mention the Joh.A fine Danish Kiwi export. Check out his home town Dannevirke. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dannevirke
    As for the beers Mmmmmmmmmmmm I loves Tuborg. All hail Danish brewers !

  17. [It doesn’t even seem to be what consumers want now. The two NBN test sites in Australia have been connected to some 6,000 premises, but currently the NBN has only 41 active customers. Seriously. A 0.68% take-up rate – hardly a case-study in consumer demand.]

    pretty compelling logic from sophie

  18. I would have thought TP could talk about the $26 bill wiped off the stock exchange today unless he thinks it is all down to the PM.

  19. This little black duck

    [poroti,

    SBS.

    Did you enjoy 7.5?]

    I am part of the demographic that has pretty much not bothered watching 7.5 since……..well you know when. Except for Thursays when one of NZ’s greatest exports appears on Clark and Dawe.

  22. Greensborough Growler

    [I would have thought TP could talk about the $26 bill wiped off the stock exchange today unless he thinks it is all down to the PM.]
    Well it was either the PM or the carbon tax ? 🙂

  24. [poroti

    Posted Wednesday, August 3, 2011 at 9:04 pm | Permalink

    This little black duck

    poroti,

    SBS.

    Did you enjoy 7.5?

    I am part of the demographic that has pretty much not bothered watching 7.5 since……..well you know when. Except for Thursays when one of NZ’s greatest exports appears on Clark and Dawe.
    ]

    Actually you can watch the videos on youtube as Clarke & Dawe have their own channel there.

    And thuis bypass 7.5 completely.

  27. Greensborough Growler

    [sprocket,

    Once the copper network is closed down, everyone will be on the NBN.]
    Precisement. Conroy on ABC radio this morning wiped the floor with the dill arse interviewer bringing up the same points. “But ooh only 67 people have taken up the NBN in whereever it was”. Conroy ‘Well Duh we said at the start that it will begin with a small trial and none of the rest are even connected yet”. ABC noob but but but SFA have taken it up at “x” site. Conroy, Wel l” Duh when Telstra rip up copper then everyone will be fibre” .

  29. Frank Calabrese

    [Actually you can watch the videos on youtube as Clarke & Dawe have their own channel there.

    And thuis bypass 7.5 completely.]

    Truth be known that is exactly what I do. All hail the internet ! 🙂

  30. You know how Chinese manufacturing means “Resistance is Futile”? Whilst Anglo Saxon economies screw worker conditions ever downward to compete what about those highly paid long holiday bludging Germans ?

    [Germany’s Mittelstand

    Beating China

    German family firms are outdoing their Chinese rivals. Can they keep it up?]
    http://www.economist.com/node/21524922

  31. [Actually you can watch the videos on youtube as Clarke & Dawe have their own channel there.]
    “Where are the tweets Bryan. I like the tweets running along the bottom …. Mr Swan, this is not Q&A…..” Ya gotta love ’em.

  32. fun stuff re computers

    when i was lad, we used to dig up the bits and bytes that you upper claas twits used

    each morning at pm we would go down pit and work till the next night

    and if we didnt dig up exactly 1026 of each, then we had to sew punched cards

    I WIN

  33. [2282

    gusface

    Posted Wednesday, August 3, 2011 at 9:23 pm | Permalink

    fun stuff re computers

    when i was lad, we used to dig up the bits and bytes that you upper claas twits used

    each morning at pm we would go down pit and work till the next night

    and if we didnt dig up exactly 1026 of each, then we had to sew punched cards

    I WIN
    ]

    Gus,
    check your email re the ABC 🙂

  37. [2286

    Glen

    Posted Wednesday, August 3, 2011 at 9:27 pm | Permalink

    Frank just out of interest did you write emails to complain about the ABC in 2007?
    ]

    Not from memory

    Unl;less it was my namesake the fireman from Qld.

  40. [2285

    gusface

    Posted Wednesday, August 3, 2011 at 9:26 pm | Permalink

    frank

    got a real sad one via swmbo’s account

    suffice to say there is mega scrubbing going on at their abc

    and it aint the floors

    ]

    Send via the usual means 🙂

    The Cultural Revolution of their ABC has started now as a divertion of murdoch.

  41. Can anyone explain what is happening with the girl and the collar bomb? Is it a prank, or an extortion or someone who has been watching too much SAW?

  44. [Diogenes

    Posted Wednesday, August 3, 2011 at 9:30 pm | Permalink

    Can anyone explain what is happening with the girl and the collar bomb? Is it a prank, or an extortion or someone who has been watching too much SAW?
    ]
    It’s all real.

  45. RNM1953 @ 2172:

    Thanks for the further clarification.

    I think I know the trial you refer to but will leave it there.

    Most peoples’ experience with the criminal justice system comes from serving on a jury & anecdotally many are underwhelmed by it.

    Aristotle is attributed with saying: “Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.”

    I guess what I’m saying is that our criminal justice system isn’t perfect but it sure beats some other systems where, for example, one acts as judge, jury & executioner.

    You got me thinking about your mother’s concern about the trial & that she still brought it up with you long after it had ended & probably her only contact with the system coloured her entire view of the process and beyond.

    My own mother, who’s now 90 & still has her marbles, witnessed fairly minor police corruption in early ’50s. Stated briefly, the town where we lived had a bridge, the height of which often resulted in trucks getting stuck under it.

    Coincidentally the bridge was adjacent to the local cop shop. On one particular occasion the local sergeant & accomplices removed the white goods from the truck which were, as the story goes, sold to some colourful local identities. Most of the town knew of it but nothing came of it and the goods were deemed to be stolen by persons unknown.

    Since that time my mother, whenever allegations of police corruption or misconduct arise, retells the story. In fact, I heard it again last week after a cop was booked for drink-driving.

    Anyway I’m sorry to learn you mother has passed on and I enjoyed reading your account of her perception of her jury experience.

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