Galaxy has produced its first federal poll for the News Limited tabloids since the Liberal leadership spill vote in February, and what I guess will be one of its last given it will have the gig of conducting Newspoll for The Australian come the new financial year. The headline two-party figure is 52-48, which in a sense is down from 57-43 last time, but that doesn’t mean all that much given our distance from the starting point. The primary votes are 41% for the Coalition, 39% for Labor, 11% for the Greens and 2% for Palmer United. Questions concerning the budget, along with other details, will presumably be forthcoming. Hat tip to GhostWhoVotes.
UPDATE: The Daily Telegraph reports that the poll finds 24% saying the budget made them more likely to vote Coalition versus 29% for less likely, although 43% agree it will stimulate small business compared with 29% disagreed. We are also told that Joe Hockey rated higher than Chris Bowen as preferred Treasurer, though not by how much. The poll encompassed a sample of 1683, and I’m assuming was conducted on Wednesday and Thursday night.
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It was widely praised on here David careful.
Agree Guytaur however Shorten’s reply was more like a rallying cry at a Labor convention than a budget reply speech. Likely to excite the loyal supporters but few others.
PhoenixGreen
To get to your position of referendums you are going to have to have a referendum to enable it in the constitution.
Good luck with that.. You don’t have near the numbers you need from the sample on this blog.
[Likely to excite the loyal supporters but few others.]
Well FWIW PvO thought he did a good job.
I’ve been in the minority here on plenty of occasions silmaj. I can handle it 🙂
And speaking of whom, obviously not a fan of Ipsos!
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I’ll wait for Newspoll before rushing to judgement with other pollsters better known for assessing public satisfaction with frozen peas…]
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Well, he would say that (who does he work for again?). Besides, doesn’t he mean Galaxy now that Newspoll exists in name only.
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reachtel and Galaxy taken after the budget does not reflect Ipsos on any metric
Politicians and frozen peas. Hard to tell them apart on occasions.
davidwh #952
I don’t know about that David, that ‘entrepreneurship fund’ Labor was proposing, promises of being more co-operative with the Coalition and that 5% small business tax cut seemed to be squarely aimed at Ayn Rand-y type libertarians.
GhostWhoVotes
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#Ipsos Poll Federal Primary Votes: L/NP 43 (+4) ALP 35 (-3) GRN 13 (0) #auspol
victoria:
True.
#ReachTEL Poll Federal Primary Votes: L/NP 41.1 (+1.3) ALP 38.3 (-1.0) GRN 12.1 (+0.2) PUP 2.2 (0.0) #auspol
1:12 AM – 14 May 2015
50-50…..certainly a bombshell poll, makes Newspoll wait tantalising.
For the PM to call a double dissolution without first reforming the Senate voting system would be a double throw of the dice. But he could not ram through that reform without Labor/Greens support, and hence by having them alerted to the gambit.
GhostWhoVotes
GhostWhoVotes – @GhostWhoVotes
#Galaxy Poll Federal Primary Votes: L/NP 41 (+5) ALP 39 (-4) GRN 11 (0) PUP 2 (-1) #auspol
Abbott should call a snap election
Sir Mad Cyril – Newspoll is still the same, the change to it being done by the Galaxy company, and hence the change in its methodology, is not until July.
Victoria both polls are consistent in direction but differ on extent. Also ReachTel was done soon after the budget and before the reply. But as with these polls you have to see what happens over time and look for a consistent trend.
Also Ipsos has shown an apparent Coalition bias in the past.
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Labor can’t be 39
Oooh, Tony got a budget bounce. Silly punters.
Ipsos 46 to 50 (+4)
Galaxy 43 to 48 (+5)
Reachtel 46 to 47 (+1)
Essential 47 to 48 (+1)
Newspoll 49 to 48 (-1) with new one pending soon
New thread.
Sorry to many polls
@guytaur
That’s fine, won’t stop me trying to change people’s minds. That’s how actual democracy works.
@Zoomster
You can’t have a plebiscite on every vote, nor should you waste people’s time with uncontroversial or technical changes. But there are ways to filter the big issues from the small, and other countries do it very well. Switzerland has on average 11 direct votes a year, at referendums held every quarter. They focus on the biggest issues. And the people themselves get to decide what constitutes a big issue, they need 50,000 signatures to challenge a parliament’s decision and 100,000 signatures to propose an entirely new issue. That’s just at the national level, much more goes on sub-national and local.
A majority on the floor of the house doesn’t represent a majority of public opinion for the reasons I outlined before. The electoral system means most people’s candidates are eliminated, and of the minority of us who actually got our desired MP elected, up to 50% again of us will be disenfranchised by the other side getting a majority in the chamber. We are disenfranchised again if we voted for a faction which gets consistently rolled internally. And besides that, we don’t vote on issues, we vote on vague wishy-washy campaigns, on people or, if we’re really lucky, a handful of campaign promises which represent a small fraction of the business of parliament and are usually broken anyway.
You could fill a library with possible paths our country could take, yet we get fewer policy options presented to us than we do choice of drink at the pub.
The Libs will scratch their heads for a few days, not being able to believe their own luck.
Then they’ll get cocky. Believing your own publicity is a terrible mistake.
The Budget’s still a stinker. Just not as overt as the last one.
Steve777@647
PPPs are a scam and no responsible government should contemplate them. I am saddened that Labor Govts have been conned into them.
CTar1@663
It is a fantastic album.
My late son loved it and it makes me think of him whenever I play it.
Another favourite is Junior Wells, ‘Come on in This House’.