Can’t see full online results anywhere at this stage, but GhostWhoVotes and The Australian relate the publication of the latest quarterly Newspoll figures providing breakdowns by state, gender and metro/regional from the past three months’ polling. The state figures are always the most interesting from my perspective, and it’s only Newspoll and Nielsen which offer this level of detail. Nielsen publishes full breakdowns for its monthly polls, but these are from much lower samples than the quarterly Newspoll. To even the playing field, the following discussion uses quarterly averages of Nielsen’s results.
The resulting samples are substantial for the biggest states – over 2000, in the case of Newspoll for New South Wales – but correspondingly smaller for Western Australia and especially South Australia. It is presumably no coincidence that for the two biggest states the two pollsters are currently in agreement, with swings of 8 per cent in New South Wales and 6 to 7 per cent in Victoria (although as the charts below show, it was a different story in the previous quarter). It is also agreed the swing in Western Australia is around 4 per cent. With Queensland however, a gap emerges: Newspoll says 6 per cent, Nielsen says 10 per cent. There is a still bigger gap in the case of South Australia, but this can be put down to small samples and the latest obviously anomalous result from Nielsen.
To establish whether there has been any consistency in these distinctions over time, the charts below show the Labor swings recorded in each quarter since the election. Despite poll-level peculiarities, both broadly suggest that Labor enjoyed a post-election dead cat bounce in the resource states. In the case of Western Australia, this gave Labor a buffer which is still evident in the relatively slight current swing. On the Nielsen chart however, the most recent result sees the lines for New South Wales and Victoria cutting across Queensland’s – remembering that the prevous quarter’s results for these states were very different from Newspoll’s, the only serious interruption to a broadly similar picture for these two states since the election.
Conveniently, Galaxy has also conducted one poll of 800 respondents in each quarter in Queensland, and these accord perfectly with the Newspoll and Nielsen results from this state. In each period, Labor is slightly higher in Newspoll and slightly lower in Nielsen with Galaxy in between, and there’s not much in it in any case. In the current quarter, Galaxy’s 63-37 two-party preferred splits the middle of the previously noted four-point gap between Newspoll and Nielsen. The only other state-level results I’m aware of are two Western Australian polls of 400 respondents conducted by Patterson Market Research. One of these was as long ago as October last year, which accorded with Newspoll and Nielsen of that time in showing a Labor recovery. However, an unpublished poll from two months ago was solidly worse for Labor than either, pointing to a swing of about 7 per cent.
What the polls would appear to indicate then is a big enough swing in New South Wales to account for Greenway, Robertson, Lindsay, Banks, Reid, Page, Eden-Monaro, Parramatta, Dobell, Kingsford Smith, Werriwa, Barton, Richmond and McMahon, and a slightly smaller swing in Victoria that would take out Corangamite, La Trobe, Deakin and possibly Chisholm (UPDATE: I originally included McEwen, but as noted in comments, the redistribution has made this safer for Labor). Since Galaxy splits the middle in Queensland, it seems best to apply its 8 per cent swing there – which, as was noted at the time the poll was published, would leave only Kevin Rudd standing in Griffith. Gone would be Moreton, Petrie, Lilley, Capricornia, Blair, Rankin and Oxley. In Western Australia, Labor currently holds Brand on 3.3 per cent, Fremantle on 5.7 per cent and Perth on 5.9 per cent: the Newspoll and Nielsen poll swings would put the first in danger while sparing the second and third.
Results from South Australia are small-sample and inconsistent, except that they have broadly been at the higher end of the national spectrum – perhaps around 8 per cent. However, this is coming off the high base of last year’s election, which gave Labor very handy buffers in a swathe of traditionally marginal seats. The lowest Labor margins are 5.7 per cent in Hindmarsh (where Labor has weakened relatively over the last two elections), 7.7 per cent in Adelaide, 12.0 per cent in Wakefield, 12.2 per cent in Makin and 13.9 per cent in Kingston. The last three seats, remarkably, were all in Liberal hands as recently as 2007.
Owing to insufficient sample size, neither Newspoll nor Nielsen provides state-level breakdowns for Tasmania. We did however have an EMRS poll from Bass a month ago which pointed to a 9 per cent Liberal swing, but this was from a small sample of 300 and there were questions raised about its methodology. A swing of that size would nonetheless be enough to take out Bass (6.7 per cent) and its neighbour Braddon (7.5 per cent). The territories of course are pretty much excluded from the polling picture altogether, although Warren Snowdon’s hold on Lingiari in the Northern Territory would have to be open to question given its margin of 3.7 per cent.
None of this should be read as a prediction: first term governments notwithstanding, its a rare government that doesn’t plumb mid-term polling depths far removed from the result eventually produced by the election. This is especially so in the modern environment, when weakening party loyalties have produced an ever-swelling contingent of swinging voters. Even so, the drumbeat consistency of dire results for Labor since April is hard to ignore, and it has no precedent for any government which lived to tell the tale. Labor’s leads during the early part of Mark Latham’s shooting star trajectory were never higher than 55-45; only once in early 2001 did Kim Beazley get as high as 57-43, and was usually solidly lower; and the relevant Newspolls for the great Houdini act of modern federal politics, Paul Keating’s win in 1993, look fairly benign compared with Gillard’s recent numbers. The Fightback! polls which toppled Hawke at the end of 1991 were in the order of 56-44 and 57-43, and Keating wrestled them back to the low fifties by March. Only from November 1991 to February 1992, after John Hewson remodelled his GST to exclude food and clothing, did the Coalition reach such peaks again.
Another lesson from history is that when the electorate ejects Labor from office, it tends to do with a force which the conservative parties are spared. With few exceptions (a handful of those in New South Wales plus Brand, Lingiari and arguably Oxley, which Pauline Hanson won in 1996 as a disendorsed Liberal), the seats listed as Labor losses on the current results have all been lost to them before.
An as yet unpublished comment on Bolt’s blog, concerning his whining about Free Speech as it applies to football commentary.
[We have laws that prohibit political advertising on broadcast media without attribution – “Written and spoken by…” etc. – and it appears there might be a case for investigating a breach in the case of Ray Warren on Channel 9.
Breaches are treated seriously. Just as there are rules in the game of Rugby League, there are rules that must be followed in its broadcasting. These rules have been around for decades and should be well-known to all broadcasters. Everyone obeys these rules, in the main.
The comments might well have been scripted or paid for. We don’t know for sure, but “cash for comment” is not an unheard of activity. Given that gambling advertising was peppered through the telecast from end to end (including lives crosses for updated betting odds) it’s arguable Warren’s commentary should be looked at further.
Footy finals are for footy, not for political sloganeering nor stealth advertising by otherwise respected sports broadcasters. Given that Warren is loathe to even criticise a referee’s decision, it does seem curious that he was so free with his criticism of pending federal legislation.
If the potential breach of a broadcast law comes into question, it shouldn’t be conflated with “Free Speech” red herrings.
I know Mr. Bolt thinks he is on a winner with the “Free Speech” angle, but the truth is that he has lost his case in a fair and open court of law.
He and his fans should accept the decision and stop being sooks about it.
This isn’t America. We don’t have a constitutional right to Free Speech. In fact Mr. Bolt is against a Bill Of Rights that might establish such a right.
Take the rough with the smooth Mr. Bolt. You get away with a lot already. Not everyone has front page access in a major newspaper to complain from their bully pulpit about how they have been “silenced”.]
morning
Happy Birthday SK! Have a great day. You dont look a day over 25. 🙂
and Happy Anniversary BK!!
Kezza2 (9.25am),
Thanks you for your kind words on some of my posts.
Stereotypes are misleading. We probably think of Clive Palmer as a hard right capitalist, but on Q&A a few weeks ago he answered the refugee question like a paid-up member of the Greens.
Holden doesn’t sell cars by telling Ford buyers they are dumb. Those who wanted to defeat the Howard government did not succeed in doing so by telling Australian voters they were racist rednecks. When you attack the voters you don’t win them to your side, and attacking the voters is what leftists who are also clueless do.
Yes, I do realise what is broadcast is edited. But I have seen live interviews in which government minsters bring up the topic of Tony Abbott, telling us how negative he is (as if we don’t know) and making him look powerful, instead of telling its own story (which was my original point in mentioning Steve Bracks). I don’t have links because I do not bother to create them when I watch the TV. The best I can recommend is that you see if I am right by watching today’s run of 7.30, Q&A and Lateline.
Now, the dogs are demanding their walk, so I will be gone a while.
is this true?
[apparently, the ALP will be rolling out radio advertisements tomorrow attacking Abbott’s opposition to offshore processing … #auspol]
Landeryou publishes a story regarding all the recent Ruddstoration navel gazing by the gallery. According to his (anonymous) souce it’s all a load of fantasy:
[RUDE RUDD WON’T RISE AGAIN: Caucus elephant cannot forget its cruel past task-master
Personal relationships burned beyond recognition between Kevin Rudd and individual Labor caucus members are the key reason why he will never be restored to party leadership, a high-ranking political insider has told VEXNEWS in an explosive email.
“Some have re-written history along the lines that Rudd was removed because of bad polls. Not true. He was removed because Cabinet and Caucus were dysfunctional and utterly demoralised under his leadership. Even the polls are much worse now, strangely the mood is much better. This was just as much a problem when things were going well as when they suddenly went badly,” the insider, speaking of strict condition of anonymity, explained.]
It gets pretty scathing after that with a number of salvos fired over various bows, but a couple of salient points are also made:
[“Albanese was once Rudd’s biggest defender and he’s now talking any idea of change down. He’s seen how leadership revolving doors did so much to discredit NSW Labor.”
“A few in the Gallery also assume the Caucus is full of dummies with short memories, like them. Or those who can’t read polls. Again, like them.”
“By changing Leaders now, Labor would look like the past NSW government without the leopard undies. Macquarie Street goes commando.”
“While the hypothetical opinion polls show it would benefit Labor to go backwards to Rudd, that honeymoon wouldn’t last as long as one of Hugh Hefner’s.”
“Demolishing Gillard would look appalling. While the feminist elite is very silent in her defence now, can you imagine how loud they’d become if she was dumped?”]
Interesting that Landeryou’s insiders are telling a vastly different story to Schubert’s and Coorey’s anonymous agents. Take it all with a dose of sodium chloride.
Read more here: http://www.vexnews.com/2011/10/rude-rudd-wont-rise-again-caucus-elephant-cannot-forget-its-cruel-past-task-master/
BB @ 6901
I’ll shout you another bottle of “dead worm in mezcal” if that post gets published!
http://www.vexnews.com/2011/10/rude-rudd-wont-rise-again-caucus-elephant-cannot-forget-its-cruel-past-task-master/
Vexnews on the Ruddstoration stories…
[FEATURED
RUDE RUDD WON’T RISE AGAIN: Caucus elephant cannot forget its cruel past task-master
By VEXNEWS ⋅ October 3, 2011
Personal relationships burned beyond recognition between Kevin Rudd and individual Labor caucus members are the key reason why he will never be restored to party leadership, a high-ranking political insider has told VEXNEWS in an explosive email.
“Some have re-written history along the lines that Rudd was removed because of bad polls. Not true. He was removed because Cabinet and Caucus were dysfunctional and utterly demoralised under his leadership. Even the polls are much worse now, strangely the mood is much better. This was just as much a problem when things were going well as when they suddenly went badly,” the insider, speaking of strict condition of anonymity, explained.]
There’s a lot more, taken from the email in question. I don’t know who it is that sent it. I figure this story is worth at least as much as any other “labor insiders” article in the MSM. The part about possible aggrieved women who never knew they liked Gillard, I think is very true. I think it would be reflected amongst some voters, along the lines of “you get a woman to do the hard policy work, then get a bloke in because he’s popular”. That wouldn’t be all the story, but it will get said. Same as more sympathy was felt for Rudd after being deposed.
Fiz – snap
[GrogsGamut Greg Jericho
Seems @GhostWhoVotes is in the firing line. Someone should tell media diary he’s been doing it fro more than just “the past month”
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@GrogsGamut I thought the ghost was a protected species because all the journos use his information.
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@Captainsuburbia @grogsgamut The Aus spends a fortune on Newspoll and Ghost keeps wrecking their exclusives. They want to shut Ghost down.
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Happy Birthday SK -indulge yourself while the cherubs are away. You’ll soon be joining me as I’m 49 and some months – so far I’ve got away with it for @X!years. Why should anyone challenge a woman about her age 🙂
BK – Jamie Briggs is impossible. Have to go out but will ask you a couple of questions about this morning’s agenda later.
Leroy
So News Limited want to stifle free speech? 🙂
Another great article from Andrew Elder. Apologies if anyone else has already posted it.
http://andrewelder.blogspot.com/
According to those twitterers it looks that way. Could be a witch hunt on. I always wondered if Ghost was actually allowed (nod & wink style) to send info around, after all it gets the ball rolling with coverage for the next day.
[So News Limited want to stifle free speech?]
I think they want to charge for it.
[Oct 3 is a big day here too. 42 years wedding anniversary. No big celebrations though.]
Congratulations to you and your OH, BK. 1969 was a very good year! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ4QF45Vygw
This leadership question is the msot interesting phenomena. Half the commentators talk it up, half the commentators talk it down and half the commentators talk about not talking about it because it is a non issue.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/bolt-leaves-it-up-to-his-employer-to-decide-on-whether-to-appeal-against-federal-court-ruling/story-e6frg996-1226156402128
[Andrew Bolt leaves it up to his employer to decide on whether to appeal
by: Nick Leys From: The Australian October 03, 2011 12:00AM
ANDREW Bolt will not ask The Herald Sun to appeal against last week’s Federal Court decision that he breached the Racial Discrimination Act.
He said yesterday that the decision needed to be made by his employer without his input.
“To be honest, talking about anything to do with the courts at the moment makes me feel sick,” the Melbourne columnist said.
“It’s not a decision I’m happy to make or even influence. It’s not my money, I don’t want them to feel any sort of obligation, that they are obliged to me for personal reasons. It has to be much more hard-headed than that.”
Bolt said he would continue to express his views, even though he remained concerned about the prospect of limitation on what he can say about some issues.
The Herald and Weekly Times, publisher of The Herald Sun, also found to have breached the act, is receiving legal advice on whether to appeal to the full court of the Federal Court. The company has held one meeting about whether to appeal, for which there are strong internal advocates. It is expected to make a decision this week.]
More in the article.
leroy,
Like you, I’d always assumed that Ghost was a sanctioned leak by News to generate interest in their polls.
http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/mediadiary/index.php/theaustralian/comments/donors_go_in_to_bat_for_bolt/
One section of this article is on The Ghost
[Polls’ ghostly pall
THE ABC continues to broadcast unsourced opinion poll results, lifted from the Twitter account GhostWhoVotes. The unnamed and self-described “political observer” has well over 3000 followers, including producers, journalist and media outlets across the country. In the past month, the Ghost has published polling results from Galaxy, Newspoll and ACNielsen before any of the commissioning media outlets, enabling the ABC to report the results. It’s a mystery, of course, just how the ABC knows the results are accurate – almost as much of a mystery as the identity of the Ghost himself.]
Community cabinet in Hobart this arvo
http://www.dpmc.gov.au/community_cabinet/index.cfm
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is this true?
]
vic
The Oz had this article up yesterday. Haven’t heard anything else about it
[
THE Labor Party has launched an advertising campaign seeking to pressure Opposition Leader Tony Abbott to support the government’s bid to resurrect its controversial Malaysian people swap deal.
The party-funded radio ad, authorised by ALP national secretary George Wright, is to run on commercial stations in capital cities over the next few weeks.
The ad features voices talking about the government’s draft laws aimed at restoring its power to send asylum seekers to third countries following a ruling against the Malaysia Solution by the High Court in August.
]
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/immigration/alp-launches-ads-on-boat-changes-in-a-bid-to-resurrect-the-malaysia-deal/story-fn9hm1gu-1226156057436
Leroy:
The Vexnews article is interesting because it uses sources that are as reliable as Coorey’s, Schubert’s or Hartcher’s. It seems to be standard reporting fare these days to use anonymous sources to publish any old scuttlebutt that is going around. This in turn creates bootstrap after bootstrap to fit the meme being told, which in turn is fuelled by polling numbers. So how do voters decide who they would be most likely to vote for if an election was held this weekend? Well they rely on the information given to them by the journos… who are reporting gossip and rumour because the neverending meme is about leadership. In reality, the media have been reporting the same leadership story since about 2003. It has just changed the protaganists between Liberal and Labor.
A pretty sorry media environment with too much obsession about leadership and too little policy analysis. At the same time you keep hearing the ‘insiders’ bleat about how poor our political landscape is at the moment, when the only thing they seem really interested in writing about is leadership tension (of whichever party). In fact, I wonder if there is a single month that has gone by since 2003 that hasn’t included an article by a gallery journo about leadership tension.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/pms-new-spin-doctor-says-hell-walk-his-talk/story-e6frg996-1226156422626
The new man starts in November.
[In the London Daily Telegraph in July he advised David Cameron that “all governments need head-kickers: in their cabinets, on their backbenches, and in their offices”. In the same piece he said that governments hit by scandal must “get a grip” and adopt a policy of carefully limited honesty. “The key is to realise that you don’t need to tell the whole truth, just nothing but the truth. Don’t lie. Don’t equivocate. But set out a defensible truth: one that you will not have to expand, modify or resile from.”]
[It is a fair bet that he would like to see a punchy Gillard taking on Tony Abbott. McTernan was in parliament on the day Gillard called Abbott “a snivelling grub” and he called it “a towering performance”.]
Fiz and Leroy
Thanks for the link to Vexnews.
Very revealing and I loved the criticism of the journos.
Can someone direct me to the Misha Schubert article please?
thanks madcyril. Interesting.
BB
Is this the article you are looking for
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/labors-future-could-depend-on-how-it-selects-its-leader-20111001-1l2z2.html
BB
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/labors-future-could-depend-on-how-it-selects-its-leader-20111001-1l2z2.html
Won another bottle of mezcal yet?
[Latika Bourke
@latikambourke
Susan Mitchell says she wrote her book on Opposition Leader Tony Abbott because of all the men wanting to be PM ‘he is the most dangerous.’]
[Latika Bourke
@latikambourke
Susan Mitchell ‘not just because of [Abbott’s] retrogressive attitudes…more because his ideological framework is so narrow.’]
kezza2
Snap”
The annoying thing about leadership stories is that it is lazy journalism, pure and simple. It is usually based on unnamed sources that are more than happy to give the journo some scuttlebutt. To get protagonists on the record requires more finesse from the reporter. They have to work hard to find and chase the story, get people on the record, and give their sources confidence that they will not be quoted out of context, misquoted, or used as a filler to give the story a particular, prearranged angle. Leadership stories are just based on pre-existing memes, with polling numbers used as evidence.
Anyway, all that has been said here before – I’m preaching to the converted!
According to The Age, this is some of the text from Labor’s new ad
[
The ad, which uses multiple voices, says: ”Don’t the Liberals support offshore processing?
”It’s really time this got sorted out. What are you going to do, Mr Abbott?
”First Tony Abbott supported offshore processing. Now he’s opposing it.
”Does he really have a policy? Or doesn’t he care?”
]
http://www.theage.com.au/national/labor-ads-target-abbott-20111002-1l3wy.html#ixzz1Zfe0XRqj
Leroy
In the link you posted (donors go in to bat for bolt), this interesting bit about the IPA
[It raised more than $100,000 in the 48 hours following Wednesday’s decision to fund the Support Bolt campaign. Executive director John Roskam said the campaign was in full flight and the IPA intended bringing back Mark Steyne (sic) to Australia to add his support. “There is huge community concern about freedom of speech in Australia,” he said.]
So, who is Mark Steyn? Some hotshot lawyer?
Nah! Another rightwing nutjob writer/commentator (he fills in for Rush Limbaugh on occasion) in the shape of our very own breacher of the RDA Bolt.
An example?
[Steyn also bandies about a number of outdated demographic data (including one of his few outright errors, a claim that “the number of marriages in Russia is shrinking every year” which hasn’t been the case since the 1990′s) to prove that Russia is, in the very near term, doomed.]
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markadomanis/2011/09/14/a-review-of-mark-steyns-after-america/
Now, I know wiki can be tampered with but if the entries are correct, then he and Bolt could be soulmates. Not to mention he escaped prosecution under the Canadian Human Rights Commission for articles demeaning Islam or wtte.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Steyn
Ironically, Steyn is a visiting professor at Hillsdale College, known for being the first American college to prohibit in its charter all discrimination based on race, religion, or sex.
[victoria
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kezza2
Snap]
Couldn’t say snappo to you – got booted off PB and had to re-login!!
lizzie
[McTernan was in parliament on the day Gillard called Abbott “a snivelling grub” and he called it “a towering performance”.]
lizzie, was that when Gillard was PM?
If so, I don’t agree that it should be JG as the headkicker.
The PM should be above that sort of stuff, imo.
I think I would take all leaks and scuttlebutt with a grain of salt and realism and awareness of the faction players.
At a guess the pro Ruddstoration articles will be sources from nervous, mostly lefty back benchers, especially those linked to Tanner in Vic and some in NSW and Qld. This group were always pro Rudd anyway and the polls will increase there support.
The No, not never group will be precisely those who through Rudd – Feeney, Shorten, Arbib. This group sees a serious loss of power and status (which is really why they got rid of Rudd ie he was not their puppet).
Somewhere in the middle are those who seek a middle way or a third candidate – the Crean, Smith, Combet, Swan groupings. This will include large slab of the NSW left (inc Albo I assume) who will put support behind a Combet challenge if the time were right.
My reading of the current power play is that everyone is behind giving Gillard a large generous last try ie good media, substance (eg recent China speech) and getting the CT though parliament. Also trying the blame Abbott for AS chaos. Risky but worth a try.
If the polls stay level or tick up then there will be no movement until after Xmas. There may be no change at all.
If there is any large drop then there will be a resolve for swift action by December (even November).
There are it seems 5 contenders (6 if you at BBs hypothetical).
1. In my judgement it is too early for Shorten (has enemies too)
2. Smith looks to be happy to be Deputy to Rudd, seeing a longer term gain for himself
3. Combet will be cautious – why take over at a risky stage – and the right wing plotters will be just as keen to undermine Combet as Rudd so there will not be unity. Shorten would see a Combet victory as disastrous for his long term goals
4. Crean is by all reports an nice fellow and competent. He has the charisma of a turnip, so those who support him will be those who see the government a gonner anyway and would offer him the prize as the old faithful who gets to be PM for 18 months before leading the ALP into 6 years of opposition. He would get the support of the Independents , so the current government could stagger on for another year or so.
5. This leaves Rudd – support will come form those in marginal seats if the polling still looks good for him.
6. I do not count Swan, Albo or Roxon as serious contenders at this stage although each may be pushed for deputy esp Roxon
7. There are a few young turks in waiting but they will need to wait until Combet and Shorten have played their hands.
Looks as if the Telstra deal will be approved at the shareholder meeting on October 18th….whether or not it is approved by ACCC beforehand…Another nail in the coffin of Abbott’s/NewsLtd’s desire to destroy the NBN…
More here: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/companies/telstra-investors-resigned-to-national-broadband-network/story-fn91v9q3-1226156451216
Fiz
Lazy journalism and boring to boot.
HoJo presser coming up on ABC95.
This little black duck
[HoJo presser coming up on ABC95.]
Keep us posted. Some HoJo comedy should ease the Mondayitis.
Re: Free Speech Disaster for Australia
by Mark Steyn
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/278707/re-free-speech-disaster-australia-mark-steyn
A typical comment from a fearful Teabagger:
[gotta remain anonymous : 09/29/11 23:52
I moved to Australia several years ago from America and within 3 months I realized I had lost a lot of the freedoms I was so used to. For reason I will not get into on a blog, I remain here for awhile yet.
I have become politically active here. I am doing what I can to wake up the small community I live in. Although continually dismissed by the elitist politicians, Liberals included, it doesn’t stop me from writing letters, making submissions and informing the community of those outcomes. Many have thanked me for my efforts, and that truly is a humbling experience. I only wish more than a handful would become active and help me with my efforts.
I’ve concluded that Australians really do not understand what liberty means; how could they when they’ve been sucking on the govt teet since day one?
A huge problem is that all their legislation now comes from the United Nations. They have fully implemented Agenda 21 and most don’t even know what it is.
I was really taken aback when I was told, ‘she’ll be right, mate’, but nothing outraged me more than when I was told, ‘near enough is good enough’.
What kind of attitude is that?
Bolt is one of the few conservative voices in Australia, and the dominant socialist mindset would, of course, do anything to silence him. Unless Australian’s grow a spine and do something about it, it’s headed for a downfall]
And there are many, many more.
Sad.
STOP THE SPENDING!
CARBON TAX, BOO!
Doesn’t support A Buffett tax.
End of. Did not look comfortable.
Daretotread channeling La Stupenda…
[If the polls stay level or tick up then there will be no movement until after Xmas. There may be no change at all.]
Gee, going out on a limb a bit aren’t you DTT?
Get over it, mate: there is no challenge.
Ducky
Why was JoHo uncomfortable?
SK
Happy birthday and many happy space landings. I hope you have a great day and a great year to come.
BK
42 years! Well done. Happy anniversary.
Kezza2
Whoever that blogger is. If he/she loves the freedoms of America so much, i would recommend they return. Because we know how great things are for the brave and the free at the moment!!!
I’ve finally recalled where I filed this (well referenced) article by George Monbiot: A Hippocratic Oath for Journalists