This week’s BludgerTrack poll aggregate, which avails itself of new results from Newspoll, Essential Research and Morgan, provides further evidence against the notion that the Coalition might have turned the corner following its post-budget slump. Labor is up 0.3% on two-party preferred, enough to boost it by three on the seat projection with gains in Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania. The main change on the primary vote is a lift for Palmer United, which might reflect its publicity surge in the wake of the Senate changeover, although you would want to see that corroborated by a few more results before taking it to the bank. Newspoll as always provides new numbers on leadership approval, but they have once again failed to disturb a picture that has been set in place for at least the past few weeks – a slight decline for Bill Shorten off a post-budget spike, and reliably poor ratings for Tony Abbott.
@jules/100
I wonder how ASIO was forced to have these new powers in place, after they got guttered in funding?
Farewell Carbon Price / ETS, we hardly knew ye.
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Latika Bourke @latikambourke · 42s
Australia’s carbon tax has been abolished by Parliament.
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lizzie
Naomi Woodley @naomiwoodley 46s
All cross benchers except Xenophon (who is ill) are w/ the Government. Labor & Greens against. The carbon tax repeal bills will pass.]
And a great betrayal of our economic interests is enacted. What a disgrace the Tories are.
Everyone drop your pants, we’re OPEN FOR BUSINESS!
[In his comments on the submariners Abbott verged on prostituting history for his own geo-political ends.
Despite the passage of time, many Australian families still experience the flow-on effects of the savagery and loss inflicted by the Japanese Imperial Army. For them and for others Abbott’s remarks were a bridge too far.]
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/tony-abbotts-praise-of-japanese-submariners-delivers-a-blow-to-nations-psyche-20140716-zti06.html#ixzz37gTpSasa
Haha, yeah eff you grandad and yer Pacific war stories. An opponent with great honour! We were obviously confused when we ran those War Crimes Tribunals on Ambon.
[Bernard Keane @BernardKeane 2m
They even clapped. A shameful victory for old white men over the future. Note their names. History will damn them.]
[Bernard Keane @BernardKeane 2m
They even clapped. A shameful victory for old white men over the future. Note their names. History will damn them.]
Their names live in infamy.
We are the only country rolling back Carbon pricing.
The only good news: their ultimate defeat is inevitable.
The LNP is a zombie party. They just voted against the future they just do not realise they are dead yet
Bugger… Damn fool of a ‘Liberal Party’
I sent Julie Bishop an email expressing my displeasure… I expect she will change her mind now 🙂
The carbon tax may be gone but expect the Tories to blame whatever happens in the next two years on the carbon tax.
They have no policies, no plans.
Now how will Abbott blame Labor when the countries that are doing something start slapping carbon tariff’s on Australian exports ?
Just another shameful day for Australia.
So it’s official – Abbott is a Cnut.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnut_the_Great
BB @ 81
Such reasoning is not totally without sense, but no matter how it’s rationalised, a vote in parliament will be seen to condone or reject some set of values.
I’m on the side of being able to rationalise such things. If Australians wish to run some experiment, it should be possible to run it and have the results made explicit. However. what I wish were possible and what is practical are two different things :P.
@BBCBreaking: Australia’s Senate votes to repeal the carbon tax, a levy on the 300 biggest polluters brought in by the Labor Party http://t.co/3wztTjV5Eg
newmatilda @newmatilda 1m
“The Coalition, or at least the Liberal Party, obviously has friends in the finance sector” | http://goo.gl/kp1zCz McAuley on #FOFA reform
PUP is just the noisy wing of the LNP
Does Qantas now have to pay extra for landing in EU with abandonment of treaty? How much will a ticket cost?
At least the Labor party stayed on the side of history
K17
I have never doubted Labor really listens to science
Lenore Taylor
[The carbon tax is dead and there is nothing credible to take its place
Almost a decade of bruising debate has led to the absence of any serious policy alternative and paralysis over the way forward]
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/17/carbon-tax-is-dead-direct-action?CMP=soc_568
How could Xenophon be absent for a vote like this, even if his vote didn’t count? Surely, you’d want to vote even if you had to be carried into the chamber (if that’s allowed). Is Nick a sook or in hiding?
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Just for the record, voting with the government – the PUPs, Ricky Muir, David Leyonhjelm, Bob Day, John Madigan.
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Anyone heard from Al Gore lately?
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Latika Bourke @latikambourke · 7m
PUP’s @SenElectLambie on the repeal of the carbon tax “You beauty. One to go!” (Mining Tax next)
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And people were cheering these clowns the other week.
guytaur
Fly Air NZ.
K17
Senator X is absent for personal reasons. Thus given importance I imagine illness or death in family
Lenore is not happy.
[Perhaps the last word should go to those well-known job-destroying, economy-hating, green-left anarchists in the federal treasury, whose comments in the “blue book” prepared in the event of a Coalition victory in 2010 were released under freedom of information.
Treasury described a carbon-pricing mechanism as “the only realistic way of achieving the deep cuts in emissions that are required”.
They went on: ”A market mechanism can achieve the necessary abatement at a cost per tonne of emissions that is far lower than alternative direct-action policies. Moreover, many direct action measures cannot be scaled up, and, for those that can, the cost per tonne of abatement would rise rapidly, imposing further costs on taxpayers and consumers. All of this serves to underscore the conclusion that the sooner an emissions trading scheme can be implemented the better.
“Too much time has already been wasted, for which the Australian community will necessarily pay a high price.”
Four years later we are still wasting time, and the cost continues to climb.]
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/17/carbon-tax-is-dead-direct-action?CMP=soc_568
Another abysmal day in Australian politics. History will condemn this lot – their only hope lies in the likely speed of their coming irrelevance. Carbon pricing is simply inevitable.
Meanwhile, this brown waste of time, from the most mediocre ‘leaders’ we’ve seen in years: http://www.crikey.com.au/2014/07/17/carbon-repeal-a-generational-failure-of-leadership/
Oh Sussex St. If only you hadnt got Abbott elected in the first place.
OH,and thanks OZ media for scrutinising Abbott’s claimseg “If aything, CO2 pricing is being rolled back”. Fact check that you losers: its ONLY Australia.
I thought El Gordo was going to support ARENA, but that’s gone as well, I understand. I hope Labor tells him to part some of the folds on his arse and stick his inquiry into Newman where the sun don’t shine.
@Sir Mad/122
Yes because people were fooled by paid Al Gore.
They had the emails ready to go, full to the brim with slogans:
[Dear Bushfire,
The Carbon Tax has just been repealed.
This is great news for Australian families and for our nation’s small businesses.
Scrapping the Carbon Tax is a foundation of the Government’s Economic Action Strategy.
Scrapping the Carbon Tax will save the average family $550 a year. You’ll see the benefits in coming power bills.
In keeping with our election policy, the Government’s consumer watchdog, the ACCC, has been given the funding and power to ensure that savings are passed on to consumers.
Scrapping the Carbon Tax will also take a cost burden off Australian businesses – this will make it easier for them to compete and create more jobs.
At the election, the Coalition made a pledge: to scrap the Carbon Tax, stop the boats, get the Budget under control and build the roads of the 21st century. All these commitments were designed to help families.
We are honouring our commitments to you and building a strong and prosperous economy for a safe and secure Australia.
Regards,
Tony Abbott ]
guytaur – Thanks. I’m probably being unfair.
A Pyrrhic victory for the deniers & coal barons…
IPA have sent out email claiming credit for “winning the debate”.
Bassstardds.
lizzie
They think its over. They are about to learn its not.
@BB/129
So they not going to give us $550 but rather that $550 is going to fill their coffers up more.
Greens making people of Melbourne feel good
“@smh: Adam Bandt: “This is the Australian Parliament’s asbestos moment, our tobacco moment.” http://t.co/0HEpjBeo3W #auspol”
Makes sense of the LNP with that comparison.
Zoidlord did you see this?
[Intelligence agencies in Australia will receive an unexpected funding boost to counter what they see as a growing risk of terrorist attacks emanating from the Middle East.
The unusual injection of resources, just two months after the federal budget slashed funding to other departments, comes as questions are being asked about how intelligence agencies were blindsided by last month’s extraordinary breakout by Islamist militants from Syria into northern Iraq.]
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/asis-and-asio-to-get-injection-of-funds-to-fight-threat-from-middle-east-20140710-zt3dm.html
The ASIO report to parliament had
ignore that last line @137
[Senator Penny Wong @SenatorWong 1m
Penny on carbon: Abbott to go down as one of most short sighted, opportunistic, selfish & small ppl ever to hold the office of PM -Team Wong]
In changing financial law and pollution law, Abbott has achieved what he was elected by his corporate masters to do – allow them to continue as normal.
What a good little soldier.
[Stephen Koukoulas @TheKouk 3m
Silence from @chriskkenny & @mirandadevine when I ask for some facts to support their various claims. Says it all really.]
@jules/137
As I suspected, the ASIO were gutted of funding, so they can be threatened to bend the rules, just like on FOFA laws, ABC, NBN Co, etc.
Nothing like a bunch of thugs.
Shorten/Wong presser in about 5
Vote 1 LNP 4 Science denial
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gloryconsequence
Posted Thursday, July 17, 2014 at 11:59 am | PERMALINK
In changing financial law and pollution law, Abbott has achieved what he was elected by his corporate masters to do – allow them to continue as normal.
What a good little soldier.]
Yep
Important presser for Shorten Labor.
@ConversationEDU: It may have been axed, but the carbon price made an impact on emissions https://t.co/gUxaIL0vBD
“@BernardKeane: Can’t we just cut to the chase and line up and shoot everyone with a solar panel or wind turbine?”
A look at the horror of Abbott’s action .So much for Clive’s bullshit about retaining a cap, it’s gorn as well. .
[Tony Abbott battles the future on climate change by axing carbon tax
Peel back the edges and the Abbott government’s agenda on climate change is bigger than just ‘‘axing the tax’’, and more destructive.]
http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/tony-abbott-battles-the-future-on-climate-change-by-axing-carbon-tax-20140710-zt2d2.html
I look forward to the G20 and the reception the Mad Monk gets from real leaders.