A ReachTEL poll, which I presume to have been broadcast on the 6pm Seven News, shows the Coalition with a two-party lead of 54-46, down from 55-45 at the last such poll three weeks ago. Malcolm Turnbull holds a 75-25 on a preferred prime minister question that allows no option for undecided, partly reversing a blowout to 81-19 that raised eyebrows in the previous poll. The poll also finds a remarkably even spread of opinion on Barnaby Joyce as Deputy Prime Minister, with 32% expecting him to be very good or good, 34% expecting him to be average, and 34% expecting him to be poor or very poor. More to follow.
UPDATE: Full results on the ReachTEL site here. The primary votes are 48.1% for the Coalition (down 0.4%), 32.8% for Labor (up 1.0%) and 10.1% for the Greens (down 0.7%). The personal ratings find Malcolm Turnbull taking a solid hit, with his net approval rating of plus 15.3% comparing with results of between plus 31.5% and plus 41.4% in ReachTEL’s three previous polls on his watch.
I recall being forced to study French, a language I saw not menaingfull use to learn.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/labor-conference-foley-promises-big-changes-to-education-if-elected/news-story/36b0d28a32e3a907433fe5f852c1404f
zoomster@1045
I don’t recall saying all the references were anecdotal. Provide a reference or withdraw.
Certainly there were plenty of anecdotes here.
Yes, Carey Moore was quite funny and I enjoyed it.
And of course the village idiot has been chiming in a bit with his low rent trolling which I am ignoring.
Carey Moore @1047
But what are people supposed to do if the King of England tries to barrack soldiers in their homes? What then, huh?
The comments on that Facebook post of Turnbull’s I posted earlier are getting stuck into him about SSM.
https://www.facebook.com/malcolmturnbull/photos/a.121419221578.123742.53772921578/10154006476211579/?type=3&theater
No move to remove Bill
https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiMoPecnPbKAhXIkZQKHXT6BREQFggqMAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smh.com.au%2Ffederal-politics%2Fpolitical-news%2Flabor-mps-nervous-about-shorten-and-alp-election-prospects-20160212-gmt6jw.html&usg=AFQjCNGFy_orPsdGob3I55n5BIuFGI58Xw
Asha Leu@1053
The well regulated militia, AKA National Guard, will resist. 😛
SUSC, 1051
The act of learning another language stimulates your brain and makes it more nimble (and then makes it easier to learn other languages if you so desire etc). So even though you didn’t find French in itself that interesting or helpful, it’s probably helped you in ways you might not have realised.
Trump is wedging the GOP
JoyAnnReid: Trump: “I lost hundreds of friends. The World Trade Center came down during the reign of George Bush. He kept us safe?”#GOPDebate
This is torture and kidnapping by our goverment:
http://m.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/nauru-baby-being-kept-by-brisbane-hospital-20160212-gmt3dg
Shame that only a hospital would defend babies. Sad country we have become.
So Scalia was found dead in a luxury resort? Is there any hope of finding that he was with someone he shouldn’t have been with (a la Billie M Snedden) or is that just wishful thinking?
Douglas and Milko @1046
I’m pretty similar, although I’ve managed to train myself (with mixed success) to generally get to sleep by 1am at the latest. For some bizarre reason, however, waking up around 9am (which seems the ideal time, given when I usually hit the hay) has proved a nearimpossibility for me – either I drag myself out of bed at around 6 or 7am or I’ll inevitably sleep in until 11am or so (and the later I sleep in, the harder it becomes to get up).
But regardless of when I wake up, sometime after 8pm tends to be when I become the most awake and alert, which probably has a lot to do with working night shift for so many years. Even now, when I’m usually do a a higher proportion of 9-5(ish) shifts than ones that have me getting home past 11pm, the prospect of going to bed before midnight just feels utterly alien to my body, no matter how early I got up that morning or how early I’ll have to the next.
SOHAR – I’ve been missing Alias’ bromance with Malcolm.
JACK – It appears that Scalia was more interested in blasting poor innocent quail out of the sky than sex – more’s the pity.
zoomster@935
Things must have changed.
As a teenager I got up around 6 am to make my father’s lunch and pack it, then got ready for school. I cycled to school, about five or six kilometres away, nothing to a teenager, sat in classes and was totally absorbed and thrilled by the stuff I was learning, I had wonderful teachers.
I cycled home, got into my uniform, cycled a couple of km, and worked from 4.30 to 6.00 at a service station pumping gas. Got home around 6.15, had dinner (my aunt cooked our evening meal at that time) washed up, and hit the books around 7.00.
I knocked off around 10.30 or 11.00 pm, and went to bed. Rinse and repeat.
At the weekends I worked from 7 till 1 pm at the servo, came home, went to a friend’s place, did chemistry experiments with him a lot of the time, then came home and hit the books, slept in on Sunday, then hit the books.
I loved every minute of it. I was learning a lot, my goal then and now in life, and had no trouble either staying awake at school or going to sleep at night.
This business of teenagers having different cycles of sleep is self indulgent bullshit.
I seem to be constitutionally incapable of sleeping past 7:00AM, no matter how late I retire.
I can’t remember who it was, but someone here admitted that they had a very special little heart flutter at the thought of Malcolm Turnbull PM. I wonder if they are still feeling it 🙂 Anyone recall who it was?
Asha Leu@1061
I often have trouble getting to sleep as unwelcome thoughts race through my head. One is listening to the radio – a program that is interesting enough to displace the unwelcome thoughts but not so interesting that it keeps me awake. The second, if I can foresee sever problems getting to sleep, is a small dose of melatonin (1mg) a couple of hours before going to bed.
Of course the regular sleeping tablets like Temazapan will also work, but I avoid them as they are habit forming.
Nor english either, obviously.
I did four years of French, and have found it invaluable, not only for travelling in France, but for translation of French archaeology papers for my website.
You never know when something you have learnt is going to be essential.
Wake up and live. Don’t feel sorry for learning ‘useless’ information, it is the best kind.
I can think of nothing I have learned that has not proven to be of value at some point. I just wish I had been able (timetable constraints precluded it) to continue with Latin in years 11 and 12.
zoidlord @ 1059
Absolutely agree! Shame on them!
JW:
It was alias.
don@1064
Hehehe … yep! Amazing how some fall for it.
When I was at school my experiences somewhat paralleled yours except I was heavily into sports training (swimming) and my part-time work was restricted to the weekend.
Thanks confessions 🙂
Over to you Alias….is the heart still fluttering for Malcolm?
Jolyon Wagg@1066
Mad Lib? aka Happiness aka Everything… etc.
Bemused@943
Noooooooo! We read much of the night, and were none the wiser!
Can you imagine what High School was like when you could not get to sleep until 4am. Trying to sleep was even more nightmarish. Lying awake thinking from 11pm until 4am was soul destroying. So, I found I did better if I read away the hours. I still do this. I can still function well, on a lot of reading and a little sleep, but not if I am doing “thinking work” like trying to write a grant, as I am now.
I was right at the tail end of the distribution of even my most might owl friends at school, so this was my problem in particular, but now I work with many more people who are night owls, and we all trade tips for how to deal with this side of our nature, and the sleep deprivation that can accompany it.
Actually, does anyone here know whether melatonin is related to the pigment melanin, or is the name coincidental? My father’s family are all night owls, but we also share the trait of not tanning. This is because we have something slightly different than melanin in out skins, and so freckle. This is common in redheads, if which I am one, and of which there is a large number in the family. Although even the dark-haired do not tan. We have no blondes.
So if the reaction of sunlight on the melanin in the skin triggers “awakeness”, then it is no wonder none of us can wake up in the morning.
I would like to research this question myself, but unfortunately I need to be researching the dynamics of in-compressible fluids and make it sound interesting to the grant awarders.
I think I need a nap.
Kev-1-7, re Scalia – over the years I’ve heard a number of people referred to as having no interest in sex, and it nearly always turns out that they have an intense interest, but in a kind of sex that “polite society” regards as disreputable. So my imagination is starting to run riot as to what might be revealed about Scalia, that will horrify his uptight conservaturd supporters.
Douglas and Milko@1074
Was there any need for that?
Douglas & Milko @ 1074,
😀
Douglas & Milko @ 1075,
‘ Actually, does anyone here know whether melatonin is related to the pigment melanin, or is the name coincidental?’
Yes I do.
No it isn’t.
Yes it is. 🙂
Douglas and Milko@1074
Wasn’t Antonin Scalia a Cross Dresser like J. Edgar Hoover?
C@t
Any more on that further Labor announcement you mentioned briefly last night ?
d&m
You used ‘~’ in your @ 1046 post. Yep, I know I’m ignorant. Does it mean ‘around’?
Sorry about 1074. I think I copied the whole page instead of the immediate conversation.
D&M, re Emma Chisit. It was when Alastair Morrison heard someone ask a shop assistant “emma chisit?” that he was inspired to write about the Strine language, under the nime of Afferbeck Lauder. Clinton Boys, the stats nerd who has started up the site, has obviously embraced the name with gusto, but the site is quite serious. I really wonder whether yet another poll-aggregation site is necessary – seems like every newly graduated nerd thinks he should start one up – but perhaps it will take the pressure off our William and give him time to finish that bloody PhD.
don
no, things haven’t changed – few rules of behaviour apply to every member of a certain demographic.
Backed by decades of objective research.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-real-story-of-how-the-shane-warne-foundation-fell-apart-20160211-gmrbjs.html
Who would trust Shane Warne!
Douglas and Milko@1084
How did you do it?
Most impressive … 😆
My wife has a natural tendency to be up at night and sleep all day. She says she got it from her grandma and she’s passed it on to all of the boys. Thinking evolutionarily, I suppose the tribe of normal people who sleep when it’s dark need a few among them with a “nightwatchman” gene so they can tend the fire, guard the cave from predators, etc.
Bemused
For what it is worth, before abusing me, have you checked out the BBC “game show” World War III which covers a full nuclear war scenario – I think Britain gets wiped out.
I have not seen it but it apparently caused a bit of a stir.
dave @ 1082,
‘ Any more on that further Labor announcement you mentioned briefly last night ? ‘
It seems it was the Education announcement by Luke Foley (damn that Sam Dastyari trying to get us excited enough to come back to Conference today! 😉 )
However, on the other hand this is pretty big:
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/political-donations-nsw-labors-luke-foley-pledges-realtime-reporting-20160212-gmt1ke.html
Run a few different starting times at school and let students take their pick. That’s the practice of Templestowe College in Melbourne.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rnafternoons/victorian-high-school-teaching-a-new-way/6353574
…and if we’re at the ‘I ate raw gravel for breakfast, tell that to youngsters today and they’ll never believe you’ level of argument, I rose at 6 to make breakfast for my father, got him off to work by 6.30, woke my sisters by 7, got them ready for school, woke my mother (with hot breakfast) at 8, then set off for the 3 k (we were just under the limit for a bus…) walk to school.
Doesn’t mean I couldn’t have done with a few hours’ extra sleep.
Jack A Randa@1089
My wife tends a bit that way, but not as bad.
My explanation is that she has “gone nocturnal”.
Airlines
Yep.
Totally anecdotal but children who can do well in languages that employ highly nuanced written symbols rather than any somewhat normal western language AND any western language are real ‘goers’ in the smarts race.
I’m a Doormouse.
As my mum used to say, “You could go to sleep on a barbed wire fence!”
She was right too! When my head meets the pillow at night I’m out like a light. Hence I can’t read in bed at night either. 🙂
daretotread@1090
I am not abusing you, but you have a predilection to always go for the worst case scenario and you misinterpret things to support your pov.
You forgot the uphill part. You’re supposed to say that you cycled six kilometres uphill in both directions.
Bemused, you asked D&M “how did you do it?” I’m tempted to answer “like this” (like the poor bugger who was asked “how did you manage to guillotine your finger off?”), but that would fill the page up with even more rubbish. So I’ll just say ctrl-A, ctrl-C and paste into the “Leave a Reply” box. If anyone wants to test it, please follow up with a ctrl-Z !
Ta C@t.