Morgan has released what it describes as the “first major public opinion poll of 2014”, though it could just as easily have dropped the “major”. It provides no indication of festive cheer softening attitudes towards the new government, showing the Coalition down 1.5% on the primary vote to 39% with Labor also down half a point to 38%, the Greens up half a point to 10.5% and the Palmer United Party steady on 3.5%. That translates to a 53-47 lead to Labor on 2013 preference flows and 52.5-47.5 on the headline respondent-allocated figure. As has been Morgan’s form for a while now, this poll combines its regular weekend face-to-face polling with SMS component, in this case encompassing 2527 respondents from the two weekends past. The first Essential Research result for the year should be with us tomorrow.
UPDATE: Little change also from Essential Research, which opens it account for the year with a result from the polling period of Friday to Monday only, rather than its two-week rolling average. This has the Coalition leading 51-49, with the Coalition, Labor and the Greens each up a point on the primary vote to 45%, 38% and 8% respectively, with the Palmer United Party steady on 4% and others down two to 6%. Also featured are the monthly personal ratings, showing a slight improvement for Tony Abbott – up two on approval to 47% and down three on disapproval to 43% – and a softening for Bill Shorten, down four to 35% and up one to 32%. Preferred prime minister is little changed, Abbott’s lead shifting from 43-33 to 42-31. The poll also finds strong opposition to fees for GP visits, with 28% approving and 64% disapproving, and 47% support for Australia becoming a republic at the end of the Queen’s reign against 32% opposed.
victoria:
HAs the Victorian govt done as the Barnett govt tried to do in removing subsidies for domestic solar panels and feedback to the grid?
Barnett had to back down on that IIRC.
[Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s attempt to host a Q&A on Facebook has backfired spectacularly, with the session dominated by internet users furious with the coalition’s NBN policy.]
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/20773746/turnbulls-facebook-q-a-backfires/
Oh dear!
Confessions
This is an example of the Napthine Govt attitude
[10 December 2013
Hundreds of Victorians rallied at Parliament House today calling for the Napthine Government to cancel plans for a brown coal allocation and coal export industry for the Latrobe Valley.
At the rally, a petition signed by 8000 Victorians opposed to a coal allocation and exports was presented to the Parliament and will be tabled this week. ]
http://environmentvictoria.org.au/media/hundreds-rally-calling-napthine-government-abandon-plans-coal-allocations-and-exports
Briefly,
do you mind if I use these stats on another forum ?
William @ 1446 sounded way to eager and excited 🙂
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And everybody knows it, confessions. Even died-in-the-wool Tories know the pattern shift is on.
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Yesiree Bob
No problem, YB. They are derived from BOM info, all published on its website. It is a good idea to give the attribution.
Cheers Briefly
victoria:
Interesting that Liberal governments can play the jobs card when it comes to big polluters, but not when it comes to jobs with car manufacturers.
Those vested interests will get them every time.
confessions
It is in their dna
Bemused
It would not surprise me. No party is immune to these corporate combine harvesters.
We need transparency and community involvement in the processes. If BCG or any like it were involved in that review than it would have been a disaster for the people at the bottom of the heap. We vote parliamentarians in to to their job, not outsource it.
briefly:
I keep meaning to look at the BoM records for severe weather events during winter, but each weekend keep forgetting. My own anecdotal observation is that those extreme winter storms that the BoM advise “happen 2 to 3 times a year” are actually more like 3 – 5 times a year these days.
victoria:
So it would seem. And to our country’s detriment.
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briefly:
I keep meaning to look at the BoM records for severe weather events during winter, but each weekend keep forgetting. My own anecdotal observation is that those extreme winter storms that the BoM advise “happen 2 to 3 times a year” are actually more like 3 – 5 times a year these days.]
The records are a goldmine…feel like putting on my hardhat and wielding a pick…:)
Well, the flow of boats has basically mostly halted, but no reason to be complacent as the General said.
I’m a little nonplussed why Labor/Green are saying the boats are “hidden” and Mr Morrison is lying.
That would also mean General Campbell of the ADF is lying.
Those kind of assertions would be treason, in my books.
Briefly, although max temperatures tell a story, I think night time temperatures would be more telling. My house (the old part)used to never get above 24 degrees with the 1950’s extension never getting over 28.
It gradually crept up over the years and now we have a air conditioner in the extension. Today the old part (not air conditioned) got up to 28 and the extension with the air conditioner running all day, reached 28.5. The problem is that in the old days the night time temperatures used to be lower, giving us a chance to cool the house over night. Last night it got down to 27 (Melbourne) and tonight it will get down to 26. There is not much scope to cool the house with those elevated temperatures.
I must check the BOM myself to see if this is supported by their data.
You could argue that the air conditioner and the cost of running it are a cost to me of the changing climate, along with the increase in my insurance premiums and increased cost of food (due to reduced supply because of unseasonal weather)
Evening all. The mercury didn’t reach 45 today (although it still was very hot), giving me hope that it won’t reach 46 tomorrow. Still, I hope everyone in heatwave affected areas of the country are well.
prettyone,
Shorten is demanding Morrison hold a weekly press conference to announce no boat arrivals.
Labor really don’t learn do they?
Good thing treason in actual law books is something beyond calling a politician or a general a liar.
Otherwise we might be living in some fascist hoon-TA.
Apparently the Australian Navy has decided we have a new enemy — boats. Warning shots have been fired. Australia is starting a shooting war with the persecuted of our region.
It ought to be unthinkable.
[Apparently the Australian Navy has decided we have a new enemy — boats.]
In a way, they’ve always been the enemy of the navy. And ships.
PO
[Those kind of assertions would be treason, in my books.]
Which books would they be?
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The BoM rocks. My fear is the numpty coalition govt will do something stupid and either privatise it, or try to force it to abandon climate modelling and the like.
[Those kind of assertions would be treason, in my books.]
Well, fortunately, in this country they’re not. Your style of thinking is more at home in places like North Korea. I suggest moving there, if our free society bothers you so much.
pretty one
I don’t remember ever swearing allegiance to either the General or Mr Morrison. Neither are the Head of State of Australia. Mr Morrison is a part of the government, not the government itself.
So I’m not sure why questioning the veracity of either gentleman would be treason.
If so, people who threatened to stuff a former PM in a chaff bag and throw them in the ocean would be first up against the wall, I’d have thought.
Fran, how do you know shots were fired? From what I read it was alleged by the asylum speakers that shots were fired. I would like to see evidence of this before accepting it as fact.
Carey:
I see from the news that you SAers still had a pretty scary day fire-wise.
There will be more of the same to come next week, if Perth forecasts are any indication. 🙁
“Labor really don’t learn do they”
Sean
I tend to think an opposition party has to do what it has to do – that’s politics.
But to indicate General Campbell is lying – well, that’s another kettle of fish. Australia has descended into something unpleasant with that.
Most importantly, we are (hopefully, please God) avoiding further tragedies on the ocean and avoiding the need for detention centres into the future.
It’s just not possible to hide boat arrivals. The best you can hope for is not to highlight arrivals which is part of the government’s strategy.
[I see from the news that you SAers still had a pretty scary day fire-wise.]
Yes, that’s true. The appearance of lightning across the state hasn’t helped either.
[There will be more of the same to come next week, if Perth forecasts are any indication.]
Oh dear! I hope not! Well, it looks like we’re getting a few days of mild weather over the weekend. As for the rest of next week, I don’t know.
I linked this on previous page
Australia has turned back another boat which Indonesian authorities believe was unseaworthy, leaving local villagers to rescue stranded asylum seekers from the ocean.
Indonesian authorities have quoted the asylum seekers on board saying Australian navy personnel fired shots as part of the operation to turn around the boat carrying 25 people.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/australia-turns-back-asylum-seeker-boat-from-indonesia-20140115-30vds.html#ixzz2qSkNrVvA
The Union Heavy guy on Christmas Island has been reporting every arrival there, so correct it’s impossible to hide arrivals.
The conspiracy theory that the Government is somehow hiding boat arrivals is the stuff of Green Left Weekly or Socialist Alliance level thinking.
Ok, that has got to be comedy.
ST:
[Shorten is demanding Morrison hold a weekly press conference to announce no boat arrivals.]
No he’s demanding Morrison come clean about thongs like the Australian Navy shooting at a boat containing unarmed and defenceless children. He withheld this disgusting and cowardly action form the public and the media today.
I thought it was pretty funny. In much the same vein of those who suggested Abbott could have committed treason over the Slipper issue.
[The Union Heavy guy on Christmas Island has been reporting every arrival there]
That ‘Union Heavy guy on Christmas Island’ is the democratically elected shire president of CI.
Mr Morrison was the one who decided that there should be weekly press briefings, rather than ad hoc announcements.
Now Mr Morrison has decided there should be ad hoc announcements.
Therefore the previous government’s approach to press conferences was right and Mr Morrison’s wrong — that is, if you hold the belief that Mr Morrison intends to brief the press even ad hoc-ly.
My own belief is that Mr Morrison has abandoned the idea of holding press conferences altogether, which would surely make him unique in the world of politics.
Think Big even the unconfirmed report from an anonymous Indonesian official didn’t allege any shots were fired at the alleged boat or people.
“The conspiracy theory that the Government is somehow hiding boat arrivals is the stuff of Green Left Weekly or Socialist Alliance level thinking.”
The ALP/Greens indicate they think Mr Morrison is lying and therefore lying in parliament.
That would be a truly serious situation.
Pretty One that’s politics not treason.
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But he isn’t kissing Abbott’s aske. He is putting his community first. Ergo, he has to be a Union Heavy Guy democratically elected shire president of CI.
[I thought it was pretty funny. In much the same vein of those who suggested Abbott could have committed treason over the Slipper issue.]
It was stupid then and it’s stupid now. Our elected governments are not the state.
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PeeBee
The min temp story is even more pronounced than the max record, PB, you’re quite right.
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We are dealing with right-wing molluscs on this blog, don’t expect critical thought processes.
Anybody who supports the Abbott Government on this is just as much a cowardly suckhole as Abbott,Morriscumbag and the rest of their so-called “christian” mates, and can go to damn hell as far as I’m concerned.
I wouldn’t even piss on these lowlives if they were on fire.
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briefly:
The BoM rocks. My fear is the numpty coalition govt will do something stupid and either privatise it, or try to force it to abandon climate modelling and the like.]
They will do their best to nullify it, confessions. They really are detestable.
davidwh:
[Think Big even the unconfirmed report from an anonymous Indonesian official didn’t allege any shots were fired at the alleged boat or people.]
Oh well then I guess that makes it completely OK then…. O_o
Maybe Morrison could clear up for us what actually happened? Oh wait.
Yesiree Bob
I wouldn’t let my dog p!ss on them.
Sorry guys, but when you infer that a General of the ADF is telling lies to suit a government in power, you’re looking at anti-Australian behaviour at the very least in a subjective opinion, but objectively it’s treason, as you are working against Australia’s security.
Never mind traitor to the country, anyone who supports Abbott and co are traitors to their species.