GhostWhoVotes relates that the monthly Nielsen poll in tomorrow’s Fairfax papers has Labor leading 52-48, after trailing 51-49 last time. The primary votes are 40% for the Coalition (down four), 34% for Labor (down one) and, remarkably, 17% for the Greens (up five). The latter is three points higher than the Greens have scored in any Nielsen result going back to the 2010 election (UPDATE: It turns out 15% is their previous record in Nielsen, and 16% is their record in Newspoll). Stay tuned for leadership ratings and state breakdowns.
Further results from the poll indicate strong opposition to the government’s policies with respect to the Racial Discrimination Act, with 88% disagreeing with the contention that it should be lawful to offend, insult or humiliate on the basis of race, as per the provisions of 18C of the act, and 59% opposed to George Brandis’s contention that people have the right to be bigots, with 34% supportive. Opinion on knights and dames is more finely balanced than might have been expected, with 35% supportive and 50% opposed.
UPDATE: The poll has Tony Abbott’s lead as preferred prime minister down from 48-43 to 45-44, which equals the Newspoll of February 21-23 as the narrowest lead yet recorded (ReachTEL may or not be an exception, as I don’t track it due to its unusual methodology). Abbott is down two on approval to 43% and up one on disapproval to 50%, while Bill Shorten is up one to 43% and down one to 41%.
UPDATE 2: GhostWhoVotes has full tables. By far the most striking results are from Western Australia, where the Greens lead Labor 27% to 20% – remembering this is from a sample of 150 with a margin of error of 8%. The lesson I would take from this is that static from the WA Senate election is making federal poll results less reliable than usual just at the moment.
@postboxadam: Wow. RT @smh: Fed cabinet expected to meet Tuesday to approve Badgerys Creek as the location of Sydney’s 2nd airport. http://t.co/1q9K1qJpDM
Is Lambie about to come out in full support of all feminist veterans who have orphans…
Hysterical Q&A tonight. Lampooning Abbott’s “Where are the ladies?” 😆
There goes Hockey’s softening up. Its going to be Airport for next few weeks
Lambie reckons Abbott should have taken some Labor women if his own are not good enough…
But how many MCG in a Sydney Harbour?
mh
Best Q&A for years.
“Gender equalist” sounds like you need monthly needles.
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But do the Badgery’s Creek people have an entitlement to an airport all of their own?
So, how come Tony is a bloke?
bw
Barry O Farrell’s opinion on that will be interesting.
bw
It’s a long way between drinks but tonight’s show is gold.
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I assume that the Cabinet will be looking at the sweeteners for NSW. The sheer amount of work involved will kick start the NSW economy. And once it has started at least some of the political heat will dissipate.
But in terms of infrastructure, Melbourne and Sydney badly need to invest far more heavily in public transport.
Off the freeways, my recent trips by car around Melbourne averaged 12.7kph. It was excruciating stuff.
O’Farrell has already been softened up on Badgerys – he’ll tow the company line.
I’ve said before that the Badgerys decision is not the political hazard that the ALP, in particular, think it is, and Albo should have made a decision for Badgerys years ago…
Every thingy
Are you enjoying Garnaut dising Abbott?
Oh. Wacker Williams.
mikehilliard@762
Most weeks it is good.
Except on PB for some reason. 😐
@postboxadam: Wow. RT @smh: Fed cabinet expected to meet Tuesday to approve Badgerys Creek as the location of Sydney’s 2nd airport…
Credit where credit’s due – the Abbott Government looks as though it’s about to make a good decision.
It was practically done and dusted in the mid 1990s when John Howard decided to go back to the drawing board.
Sloan being put in her place. Definitively. She ploughs on.
Which one is Garnaut?
Penny Wong is quiet tonight
Maurise? Payne is the smartest liberal I have seen in many years. She is not a week chinned sooky boy nor a red necked low intellect type from the local chamber of commerce.
Lambie deftly sticks it to Abetz. Lovely.
[I’ve said before that the Badgerys decision is not the political hazard that the ALP, in particular, think it is, and Albo should have made a decision for Badgerys years ago…]
There was no point Albanese making the decision because O’Farrell rejected it when he was Opposition Leader and when he was first elected.
Sloan is a complete farqing idiot.
[It’s a long way between drinks but tonight’s show is gold.]
Qanda is a WOFTAM in my view. Get rid of it. It serves no purpose apart from driving the media cycle the next day.
Sloan sticks it Lambie. Deftly.
Take that as a comment.
Even though i am strongly opposed to the concept of national service Lambie’s suggestion that young people should consider volunteering as a way to build experience is a sound idea.
Employers view volunteering as useful experience and can provide skills for use in the real workforce.
The mistake many young people make is thinking that the university degree on its own will give them a job.
“@owrangle: Bob Carr can sell a book can’t he. #qanda”
Volunteering for the military?
Lambie knows perfectly well that the first rule of the private is never to volunteer for anything.
The one with should length blond hair
The one with shoulder length blond hair
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OK. So not Tony.
We either build Sydney’s second Airport at Badgery’s Creek or we decide that Sydney won’t ever have a second international airport and identify and plan for the consequences of that decision.
Everything
Thought you were watching. Next to Penny.
Who said world affairs don’t come with a laugh ??
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Today The American Conservative reports that the White House et al…are furious with Israel which had declined to support the US over the Crimea and the Ukraine…taking a neutral position as they say..and keeping in good relations with Moscow….and after all that money they have got from the USA(calculated since 1948…as $119 Billion dollars US)
such ingratitude !!!
I bet that behind the scenes there are a few very anti-semitic remarks in the White House today
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/israels-unsurprising-response-to-crimean-annexation/
Malcolm Turnbull allegedly did a cost benefit analysis on the Coalition’s excuse for an NBN.
But in reality he didn’t.
Marise Payne should be in Cabinet
[ Lambie knows perfectly well that the first rule of the private ]
Belive it or not, i read somewhere that she was an officer.
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Thought you were watching. Next to Penny.]
I have never seen her before. Yes she was good!
It was a fun QandA tonight.
Good to hear that the Chinese QandA from last week was shown on Chinese TV as well (although Tony didn’t say whether it was edited or not).
Moddy Everything
Agree, sadly we are stuck with Merit and the hackdoms
“@ainchley: No more Carrs in Australia #qanda”
[Marise Payne should be in Cabinet]
She’s too liberal and too female for this government.
[ Marise Payne should be in Cabinet ]
Not qualified. No external genitalia.
What if she became a gender equalist?
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Sorry, thought you meant which one was she. I haven’t seem much of Garnaut before, is she related to Ross?
[What if she became a gender equalist?]
What if you stopped being a farqing idiot allegedly?
@MB/778
Except that we are being given Slave Army, no protection rights while gaining experience.
“@shortfunnyguy: If Bob Katter and Pauline Hanson had a child, it would be Jacqui Lambie #scary #qanda”
[Maurise? Payne is the smartest liberal I have seen in many years. She is not a week chinned sooky boy nor a red necked low intellect type from the local chamber of commerce.]
Payne joined the Liberal partyroom around the same year as Gillard. Since then she’s been overlooked for ministries and front bench positions all throughout the Howard years, the Liberal opposition years, and now, the Liberal govt years. I believe she has some minor ministry whatever it might be.
Compare and contrast with Gillard who reached Deputy LOTO, Deputy PM, senior Cabinet minister, and then Prime Minister in her tenure in parliament.
Meanwhile Payne is relegated by the Liberals to suck it up on some WOFTAM ABC show that nobody watches.
Yeah, she’s an absolute stand out.