ReachTEL’s monthly federal poll for the Seven Network is unchanged on the previous result in putting Labor ahead 51-49 on two-party preferred, and is similarly stable with respect to the major parties’ primary votes, with the Coalition on 41.6% (up 0.4%) and Labor on 37.4% (up 0.1%). Reflecting other polling over this time, it has the Greens up (by 0.7% to 10.5%) and Palmer United down (by 1.4% to 5.3%). There are also leadership ratings which find a shift from poor to the intermediate result of satisfactory in Tony Abbott’s case, and questions on Iraq which show support for sending military planes but opposition to sending troops. In a separately published release today derived from the same poll, ReachTEL found stronger support than I might have anticipated for parliamentary seats being reserved for indigenous Australians, with 36.7% supportive and 43.1% opposed. As usual, this was an automated phone poll with a big sample of 3470, conducted last night.
ReachTEL: 51-49 to Labor
The latest monthly automated phone poll from ReachTEL finds no change on two-party preferred, but reflects the trend elsewhere in having the Greens up and Palmer United down.
The Minister is performing very well on QandA tonight.
The panel is 1 Coalition and 4 anti-Coalition.
[The panel is 1 Coalition and 4 anti-Coalition.]
Tells me not many coalition cheersquadders willing to front up to Qanda on terror.
Edwina StJohn
Sorry Edwina, your little terror campaign is falling flat. People now have the budget and the Liberals’ terror campaign to complain about.
[ The Minister is performing very well on QandA tonight.
The panel is 1 Coalition and 4 anti-Coalition. ]
I’m not watching it but from past experience assume that means the minister is sticking well to the lines and slogans and keeping a straight face when lying
I will say, if (and it’s a big one) the LNP goes backwards… something is terribly wrong.
Then again, the govt would be loving this. An opportunity to pitch itself in the ‘middle’ rather than as the screeching ideological banshee it’s been since being elected.
Coalition is pandering to fear sloganeering words Mod Lib.
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The Minister is performing very well on QandA tonight.
The panel is 1 Coalition and 4 anti-Coalition.]
That’s 1 coalition mouthpiece too many.
Q&A:
. One Coaltion
. Two anti Coalition (Labor + Green)
. One moderate Muslim
. One expert on terrorism
Sally Shin @sallyshin 33m
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sortius @sortius 1m
ADL work with impunity. AFP have no desire to track these terrorists down #qanda
7 1/2 tonight, Brandis talks of acting to defend “the constitutional government of Iraq”….as if the Iraqi state is a going concern, a premise that is plainly wrong. Iraq is a state in name only. This is the fundamental strategic situation.
Not my fear campaign frednk, I hold no candle for the Liberal Party!
If NEWS is reporting Ray Martin’s interview with Gillard correctly it is very sad and a really really poor reflection on her.
Ludlam on Q&A, look out Christine.
@briefly/1311
If Brandis is talking of defending ‘the constitutional goverment of IRAQ’ then why are we focusing on National Security in Australia?
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The Minister is performing very well on QandA tonight.
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The sub text:
We had 800 police and 6 helicopter because the same spooks that claimed there were weapons of mass destruction and deported Australian believed there was an army planning death and destruction after a good night’s sleep.
There were more but judicial oversight prevented us from arresting the innocent, so two was the sad outcome.
But don’t worry; get rid of judicial oversight and we will fill the jails next time.
sortius @sortius 3m
The AFP refuse to investigate Brough, won’t investigate Ashby, won’t investigate ADL. Seeing a pattern here? #qanda
It appears to be the Minister and the Shadow Minister vs. the rest of the panel.
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sortius @sortius 3m
The AFP refuse to investigate Brough, won’t investigate Ashby, won’t investigate ADL. Seeing a pattern here? #qanda]
Yes.
Brough, Ashby and ADL were not about to decapitate someone.
Yes when will Ludlam challenge? He better hurry up or Walters will get there first.
Centre:
Reckon Ludlam doesn’t have a chance in hell while SHY remains in the partyroom.
Qanda is stuck in a 2003 groove.
Chalk that up to Abbott as an election promise kept: return to Howardia.
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sortius @sortius 3m
The AFP refuse to investigate Brough, won’t investigate Ashby, won’t investigate ADL. Seeing a pattern here? #qanda
Yes.
Brough, Ashby and ADL were not about to decapitate someone.
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And most probable; nor was any-one else. A little fairy story to add to the one that started all this; “weopons of mass destruction”. Poor Howard had to admit the spooks misled just two days ago.
I actually think Bandt is first in line for the throne?
The more terrorism is in old media, the harder it will be for Abbott’s vote to fall.
muttleymcgee@1274
Despite your reflexive and irrational swipe at me, I agree with what you say.
William disagreed when I wrote of the ‘rampant misandry’ on this site but it is certainly evident now.
@Mod Lib/1319
So the AFP is only investigating those who are about to decapitate someone? I’m pretty sure a AFP force does more than that.
http://www.afp.gov.au/policing.aspx
Only since the Coalition Party has invaded the AFP, it has focused on Terrorism.
We know you continue to support the Coalition Party, regardless of what you said in the past about the boats, the same goes then, as it is now.
[Brough, Ashby and ADL were not about to decapitate someone.]
If that is the best you have it is pretty poor indeed.
No the light greens will never agree to Bandt.
Centre:
They need their leader to have safe seat. The Senate therefore represents their best bet.
I provide a vital service here zoidlord.
I provide the wall on which the cacophony of echoes can bounce.
Ironic that it takes a Labor MP to remind a member of the Liberal party about defending civil rights and liberties.
The only service you provide here, is the the ability to support fear, hate and the alike.
If you didn’t, you wouldn’t be supporting the actions of the AFP, just like you wouldn’t be supporting the actions of our goverment, who is intending risk to ordinary Australians, here and overseas.
The Minister is standing firm!
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@briefly/1311
If Brandis is talking of defending ‘the constitutional goverment of IRAQ’ then why are we focusing on National Security in Australia?]
Because Abbott and Co enjoy political theatre. Abbott is an actor, mostly. His schtick is to exaggerate, improvising the script all along. Just now he’s playing war-games for dramatic effect. He has a fantasy in which he is Churchill or Curtin. Maybe a Napoleon in lycra. He must suppose we will all recognise his immeasurable greatness and fall about. But there’s nothing in this. There is no substance to any of it. Only a stir in the corridors. For Abbott, at least, though not for the rest of us. We will pay with our equanimity for seats at his B-movie.
The minister is a load of crap.
[The Minister is standing firm!]
When Keenan ditches the nuff nuff he sounds somewhat vaguely human.
muttleymcgee@1274:
[Yes, marital violence is a problem. It will always be so. Get used to it. It is not going away anytime soon and all we can do is deal with our own worlds and try and change the rest.]
No. I have no truck with this defeatist attitude. If you aren’t trying to change the world what the fuck are you doing interested in politics in the first place?
[Poverty, disempowerment, and despair are likely the root cause.]
Well, that’s a start. Entrenched male attitudes to women (and children) are definitely a big part of it though (primarily a misplaced sense of ownership), and that’s certainly something that we can change, because these attitudes are entirely down to social imprinting.
Maybe the Minister means Climate Change?
I haven’t heard it remarked upon, but is today’s call for giving up freedoms in the name of security Abbott’s Rebel yell declaring independence from the IPA? It’s certainly not in their script for Government.
Julie Hollis @juliehollis1 2m
Terrorists are getting a lot of attention from the media which they obviously like. Are we playing right into their hands? #qanda
Strategic amnesia – I think the Minister means ‘no’. He waffled rather than support the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
@Briefly/1335
No I agree with Sortius on this one.
sortius @sortius 1m
I said it when Afghanistan was invaded, & I’ll say it again now: welcome to the modern crusades #qanda
caf
exactly – which is what Ken Lay was saying.
If we just accept it without challenge of course it will never change.
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I haven’t heard it remarked upon, but is today’s call for giving up freedoms in the name of security Abbott’s Rebel yell declaring independence from the IPA? It’s certainly not in their script for Government.]
I was wondering the same thing myself. Tim Wilson has been a model of reticence.
QandA discussing the technicalities on what is what.
Burqa, niqab and hijab.
[Tim Wilson has been a model of reticence.]
Actually I was only thinking the other week that since his appointment you NEVER hear from him. He’s gone from being on the ABC or some other media outlet every other day to giving us all dead air.
Maybe that’s the solution to the proliferation of IPA hacks in our media: give the some dud govt appt and watch them sink into oblivion.
I am guessing 50:50
confessions @1347
He seems more than happy to stick his nose in issues that doesn’t pertain to his appointment.
Like that picture he tweeted of having coffee at the Maccas in Tacoma.
Well, I had bets on the Brownlow but picked the equal seconds!!!
Well done Matt Priddis, even though you prevented me getting a windfall…..;)