ReachTEL: 53-47 to Labor

After a fortnight in which Nielsen found the Coalition back in front and Newspoll found Labor further ahead than ever, the monthly result from ReachTEL has Labor maintaining the lead it recorded in the previous poll a month ago.

GhostWhoVotes relates that a ReachTEL poll, which I take to be its monthly poll for the Seven Network, has Labor’s lead unchanged on a month ago at 53-47, from primary votes of 40.3% for the Coalition, 39.2% for Labor and 10.5% for the Greens. The poll also finds Malcolm Turnbull to be favoured over Tony Abbott by 53.2% of respondents with only 27.7% opting for Abbott (and 19.1% for Joe Hockey), but this is down to a massive disparity between Coalition supporters, 58.6% of whom favour Abbott versus 27.6% for Turnbull and 13.8% for Hockey, and Labor supporters, of whom 76.5% favour Turnbull, 17.9% favour Hockey, and only 5.6% favour Abbott.

UPDATE: Essential Research has the Coalition up 51-49, reversing the result from last time. The Coalition is up two on the primary vote to 44%, with Labor and the Greens each down a point to 38% and 8%.

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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  3. Hockey and Abbott, after a hard day’s work implementing their Plan.

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  4. Thomson $100,000 was it?

    Slipper $9,600

    These two have been painted as evil personified.

    Yet Joyce and the Qantas Board spend $400 million of shareholder money to line their own pockets not a squeak out of the Liberal morons…sickening

  5. confessions@1247

    Sorry dave, I’ve now come off my freebie giveaway bandwidth so can’t watch without eating into my allowance.

    ‘Fess – I think their bandwidth has been flogged in recent times and they have just geo blocked it. sob…

  7. Let’s discuss something else.

    Here Here! IMHO it is all a distraction from the disgraceful behaviour of Nash and co. She has been caught with chocolate on her nose.

  8. Afficionadoes of SA history would be well aware that the de Villiers and Duplessis were out and about during the Boer War. In fact at least one member of the duPlessis died in a British concentration camp. She was 23 at the time.

  13. Stephen G H re EPT
    ___________
    Last year we went to Sydney and took the XPT train rather than the plane……and slept well and had quite deceent B’fast and stayed just near Central Station,just walked off the train to our accom
    Great journey and nice change from the hazzles of airports which I have come to hate The train staff are very good too

    I did likewise when I took two teen-age grand-daughters to see the Harry Potter exhib in Sydney and they enjoyed the experience of a sleeper,and quite enjoyed the food from the buffet…which supplies a number of very good hot dishes(I had a nice lamb curry) they had Snitzels..and heaps of chips…and this is served at the usual times for meals…the daylight XPT on which we returned served all 3 meals in the 12 hours taken to get back to Melb
    As well they served snacks all night on the overnight XPT

    well worth trying (some people take the cheap option and sit up all night)

  18. confessions@1260

    dave:

    That would be a shame if it’s geo-blocked. But I’ll be damned if I’m getting Foxtel re-connected.

    ‘Fess –

    I don’t miss Foxtel – that done and dusted here.

    Hey its the final test, we’ve had a good run and another link will come along.

    I’m on the verge of going VPN (less the $100 pa) anyway which overcomes geo blocks.

  23. The Senate agreed to this motion today, supported by the ALP. Morrison can’t be allowed to get away with this.

    [2 Senator Hanson-Young: To move—That the following matter be referred to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee, with effect from 1 April
    2014, for inquiry and report by 26 June 2014:

    An inquiry into the incident at the Manus Island Detention Centre from
    16 February to 18 February 2014, with particular reference to:
    (a) the chronology of events;
    (b) the sequence of events and factors that gave cause to the incident; No. 5—13 March 2008 3
    (c) the sequence of events that led to, and the cause of, Reza Berati’s death;
    (d) contractor, subcontractor and service provider involvement and response;
    (e) Department of Immigration and Border Protection involvement and response;
    (f) Papua New Guinean police, military and civilian involvement and response;
    (g) the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection’s conduct before, during and after the incident;
    (h) protocols and procedures observed by agencies in the detention centre;
    (i) any documents, including incident reports and emails as well as briefings involving staff, employees, contractors and subcontractors involved in or
    responding to the incident;
    (j) any communications between the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection and the Government of Papua New Guinea, the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, contractors, sub-contractors and service
    providers regarding the incident;
    (k) the Australian Government’s duty of care obligations and responsibilities;
    (l) refugee status determination processing and resettlement arrangements in Papua New Guinea; and
    (m) any other related matters.
    ]

  26. citizen@1264

    Maybe Morrison should lend some of his 66 PR hacks to Joyce, so the his media releases are not so internally inconsistent.

    More to the point, the Qantas board need to acquire a collective spine and a pair of nads and kick Joyce’s sorry arse right out of the cockpit /aircraft.

    Plus they need to start accepting responsibility for their own cock ups.

  29. deblonay@1272

    Re Rudd so who cares now he is a private citizen
    let’s leave it all in dead past….

    Even when he’s politically dead they still try and dig up his corpse – anything to take the focus away from this appalling shambles of a government!

  31. Qantas Airways was given 1,020,117 free carbon tax credits by the EU, they cashed them all in at $6.50 each. They then charged passengers $7.50 per ticket to cover the costs of the $6.5 million they got for nothing.

    Given they had 4,135,000 international passengers each paying $7.50, I make that $31 million in revenue for a tax that they never had to pay.

    So they made $37.5 million from the EU dropping its airline charges on their International flights. Nice earner for doing nothing.

    I wonder if this will get reported?

  32. dave

    [Plus they need to start accepting responsibility for their own cock ups.]

    They would heartily agree with this and as soon as they do a cockup they will respond appropriately.

  34. [Re Rudd so who cares now he is a private citizen
    let’s leave it all in dead past….]

    What would be far preferable is for the abusive morons who pitch the mother of all fits whenever the man’s receives any criticism or is even discussed in any way here, to grow up and learn to control their emotions, or use the scroll key on their devices.

  35. Morrison can tell The Senate to get nicked, it is the HRC he should be afraid of, he has no way to avoid answering their questions.

  38. [Assistant Health Minister Fiona Nash has been censured in the Senate over conflict of interest claims, but Prime Minister Tony Abbott is continuing to stand by her.]

    You get the feeling he’s trying desperately hard not to follow the first term Howard govt’s eg of losing so many advisors and front benchers to these kinds of silly scandals.

    I caught a bit of Abetz in the Senate earlier and laughed aloud at his unmitigated gall in accusing Labor of perpetuating worse incidents of probity than the Furnival one.

  40. SPUR212 – That’s a lot of idiocy concentrated in one newspaper article. Don’t think he could have squeezed any more in

  45. My rankings of the best Labor PM’s of my time since I started to vote (of course there was no life before then) 🙂

    1. Hawke

    2. Keating

    3. Rudd

    4. Gillard

    The top three never listened to the Greens 😀

  46. Jack Waterford is an old hasbeen who used to edit The Canberra Times, he has been kicked out of that job for decades but Grattan like pops up his head from his retirement home to air some tripe about the ALP.

    He is the Fairfax equivalent of Paul Kelly, without Kelly’s ALP favouritism. 😉

  48. I have open before me page 701 of the Offical History of Australia’s involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1948-1975.

    It reads, ‘…By 2009, almost 32 000 Vietnam veterans were receiving disability pensions in Australia – of the moe than 19 000 classified as TPI , over 14 000 of them were suffering from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).’

    On page 828 the Official History provides a table with the casualty figures: 500 died and 3129 wounded/injured/ill for an overall total of 3629.

    IMHO this is terribly unjust to the tens of thousands of TPI and partly disabled. It also misinforms the Australian public about the true cost of the war, not only to those we conscripted but to those who were regulars, and not only to servicemen and servicewomen, but to their families and friends, and not only to their families and friends, but to taxpayers who are footing a very large ongoing bill for a failed war.

    ‘TPI’ means Totally and Permanently Incapacitated

  49. Confessions

    Abbott looks a fool. I dio not know how many there has been, but I do not remember a Minister being censured by the Senate.

    Even this MSM has to pay attention to that

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