The BludgerTrack poll aggregate this week continues its steady drift back to the Coalition, with new figures from Newspoll, Morgan and Essential contributing to a 0.4% shift on two-party preferred. Labor now barely maintains overall majority status on the seat projection following a further loss of two seats, one in New South Wales and one in Victoria. Tony Abbott has also recovered the lead as preferred prime minister on the back of new figures from Newspoll and Essential Research. His net approval rating also continues to get less bad in the wake of MH17, although the rate of improvement has slowed and he is still well into the negative. Bill Shorten’s loss of the preferred prime minister mantle is not on account of his own rating, which has been steady since March outside of a brief spike in the wake of the budget. Full details as always on the sidebar.
https://newmatilda.com/2014/08/14/its-economy-and-its-effect-poor-stupid
Let’s be fair, CSIRO management would have decided where to cut, but .. .
Everything
For mine 150 is inappropriate.
The ADF, on behalf of the Australian Freedom Loving People, have successfully dropped nine tonnes of supplies on the Yizadis.
There may be a problem because apparently the PKK commie terrorists got the Yizadis off the mountain while no-one was looking. The relief supplies may be being eaten by mountain goats.
But hey.
By purest coincidence, Abbott was near some uniforms for yet another of his limitless supply of uniformed photo ops.
Thanks be to Allah.
Funny how Abbott gets a reduced rate from this mob.
http://www.afr.com/p/professions/seyfarth_shaw_brings_process_led_bGAQiFZDAMQoGin1eJS4xO
The new face of employment law, from the USA.
151 – its silly to say all indirect taxes are regressive. A tax on expensive cars would not be regressive. A tax on big financial transactions (probably not strictly an indirect tax) would be vey progressive?
OK, I withdraw!
Pathetic.
I made the inexcusable mistake of likening or PM to a tard & got snipped.
Same should apply to bemused’s comment.
CTaR1
We were doing some walking au sud when the french started practising with their rafales. The aim seemed to be to see whether one could fly between the trees.
ruawake
Some nasty little surprise(s) buried deep in the TPP ?
Boerwar
Are you sure you weren’t walking “au naturale” and the pilots were having a perv ?
Everything
This is terribly sad for the family.
Jill Wran returned to Sydney today and had little to say.
The family must be in turmoil – I know I would be.
Hockey and the poor people
They would have been flying at 40,000 metres.
Bushfire Bill
“Not that I shout at the screen all that often, but I couldn’t help yelling, “There’s no-one f**king THERE!!!” at the telly.”
Better to be there and not be needed than to be needed and not there. I can only imagine the righteous outrage that would erupt if the latter was the case.
ReachTel are polling.
First asked for vote if election held now.
The rest was all about the 6 month wait for the dole, and the Medicare co-payment, specifically in relation to how it would affect your voting intentions re the Palmer United Party.
Only time any other party names were mentioned was the first question. Everything else sounded to me like the government trying to find out how the PUP supporters will jump on these issues.
Really? What exactly is Abbott doing about the millions (sic) of people displaced as a direct consequence of a war initiated by Bush, Blair and Howard?
poroti@160
The surprises buried in the TPP are not “little”. They are very large and very nasty. That’s why no-one is even allowed to discuss the draft.
And that utter fool Abbott has already agreed to sign us up before the negotiations have even finished. Talk about being “sold down the river”!
Yeah fair enough….
Watching ABC news, the reporter basically used the same line as me!
poroti
I reckon I’m the only person alive who knows about the Dassault people ripping themselves off on that support contract.
I get the point but it’s not like we’re offering to help at the kids end of year school fete.
In any case, there is more than enough to be done here in the name of aid rather than flying planes all over the place dropping supplies into areas where it is not reaching those it is intended for. Looks like grandstanding to me.
It certainly isn’t funny.
paaptsef@135
Speaking of which, an old RAAF mate sent me this link today.
http://aviationweek.com/defense/editorial-jsf-program-has-some-explaining-do?NL=AW-05&Issue=AW-05_20140813_AW-05_316&YM_RID=%27email%27&YM_MID=%27mmid%27&sfvc4enews=42&cl=article_1_b
absolutetwaddle
The problem this news came over two days ago. Well before Operation Media Opportunity.
http://www.startribune.com/world/270931601.html
The Pope says ‘God bless Korea’.
Which one or both?
Confused as usual.
Like usual you do it ‘not very well’.
re Ice
Because its fun*. D’uh….
And because drug education is so bad that kids think one smoke of ice will see them looking like “faces of meth”. When their friends have some one weekend and spend the night dancing and rooting and then don’t have any for a month, don’t die or end up blowing creepy old men in alleys for cash, they think “Oh maybe drug education is all bullshit – Andy and Gina are fine and they use it”.
The bad stuff comes later for those people who never have any control. There are heaps of people who use recreational drugs – stimulants and pills and don’t develop addictions.
* I don’t think this can be stressed enough. With the exception of heroin (and probably alcohol for alcoholics), which seems to make some people feel normal/human, drugs are fun. Until this issue is acknowledged and addressed things won’t change. BTW This is not an endorsement of meth.
Marian Rakosi is a young unionist to watch
CTar1@139
Yes, I did think of switching that vowel.
I value your second opinion on that. 😉
The goats and ISIL have promised to send Tones a ‘Thanks for the water’ message.
Fair Dinkum! Prejudice the case…
CTar1
If only there was someone willing to pay (handsomely of course) for your memory to fail. 🙂
Contraception a good idea in your side of politics.
jules@177
I didn’t bother replying to bemused crass little comment but thanks for taking the time.
Bw
You should not have been surprised by this.
Poroti has posted numerous clips of the French AF showing much interest in remote beaches.
The Nazis almost invaded Switzerland but never actually did, for reasons I’m not sure of. Hitler hated Switzerland and the Germans in there as it was a democracy.
Boerwar
“Really? What exactly is Abbott doing about the millions (sic) of people displaced as a direct consequence of a war initiated by Bush, Blair and Howard?”
Probably not enough? Point still stands.
Further to Operation Photo Op. Notice the day !
Everything@157
Goodbye.
I dare say Switzerland’s easily defendable mountainous terrain had a lot to do with it, and indeed much else about the country’s history.
sprocket
Is that actually ‘Luce Carter’.
She’s ‘smarter than paint’.
How about all the sh*ts running the war(s) on both sides needed a safe haven to stuff away their loot. That I could believe.
Answer: nothing. SFA. De nada. Hundreds of thousands of them were/are christians but they were expendable. No stunts. Not photo ops. No 24/7. No Abbott standing next to uniforms solemnly intoning that Australia will be there.
So your point ‘standing’ about Abbott feeding some Sinjar Moutain Goats and stray ISIS fighters is what, exactly?
Surprised, no.
Slightly shocked by the sensurround experience…complete with the faint whiff of exhaust fumes… yes.
I think that even the Ukrainian component of the SS would have been bored bat-shit by occupying Switzerland -that should be taken into account as well.
CTAR1
Not with my pulled muscle it wouldn’t be!!!
William
FYEO: The DT headline today was ‘Jihadi Bludgers’.
Psephos would know why the germans did not invade Switzerland.
Cringeworthy.
“The Australian drug addict who became the poster boy for terrorism.”
Introduction by Uhlmann to tonight’s 7.30 Report.
ABC’s Mat Brown still being ambiguous on the point of whether it was a C-130 or a C-17 dropping a load of pallets on Mount Sinjar. He mentions both but there’s only been one RAAF flight.
The only thing certain is that the goats got water to drink and parachutes to eat. What variety of Middle Eastern characters got the water is very uncertain.