With a fortnight to go, Newspoll finds two-party preferred steady at 50-50, from primary votes of Coalition 41% (up one), Labor 36% (up one) and Greens 10% (steady). We are also informed that the Nick Xenophon Team is at 29% in South Australia. On personal ratings, Malcolm Turnbull is down one on approval to 36% and steady on disapproval at 51%, while Bill Shorten is up two to 35% and down one to 51%. Turnbull’s lead as preferred prime minister shifts from 45-30 to 46-31. The poll was conducted Thursday to Sunday from a sample of 1805.
The Australian also has a Newspoll result showing Barnaby Joyce with a lead of just 51-49 in New England, from primary votes of 48%, 36% for independent Tony Windsor, 7% for Labor and 3% for the Greens. This was part of the same marginal seat polling that was mostly released on Saturday, being conducted Monday to Wednesday from a sample of 523.
confessions @ #1147 Monday, June 20, 2016 at 10:15 pm
Apparently they’re having issues with Twits.
Audience member is just smashing Turnbull. Turnbull responds by retreating from his signature policy.
Raaraa, we “survived the GFC unscathed” but we won’t survive another 3 years of the LNP “unscathed”.
And arrogantly says if it doesn’t work out this way for you, then chuck us out of govt.
Seriously?
Turnbull basically self-hypnotises himself with words.
Turnbull is unintelligible with his responses.
Shorter Turnbull: you may as well just stick with us for a while.
Turnbull stutters and repeatedly points his hand at the questioner to cover his delay as he struggles for answers
Turbull drops in a reference to the Gap in his electorate and the many suicides there.
*drink*
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot!
Kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate!
Guardian:
The questioner persists.
Q: There is no requirement on companies to invest in jobs. They could just pocket the windfall. So it seems to me to be an experiment at the expense of services that Australian taxpayers expect?
Malcolm Turnbull says first up the tax cuts are for small firms. If you don’t like the results of the first three years of a re-elected Turnbull government, you can chuck me out, the prime minister says.
Fucking hopeless
I’m asking for a three year renewal of my government’s job, serving you.
Talk about the defunding of Headspace.
It sounds like Turnbull hasn’t had much personal contact with suicide.
God this is tortuous.
I cannot believe Turnbull has the gall to raise Headspace when his government is cutting funding to it!
Turnbull’s waffle on suicide is appalling.
Why the eff doesn’t Tony Jones bring up the resignation of the Headspace CEO due to govt funding cuts??
What is he talking about.
Compare the rapidity with which Shorten gets to the point of his answers compared to Turnbull’s struggle to even approach that point.
ausdavo @ #1153 Monday, June 20, 2016 at 10:17 pm
Might already be too late. Whoever wins will have to weather this.
K17, maybe his illness is diarrhea? Verbal diarrhea !
Rambling is the only way he knows how to lie.
Gotcha!
JD
Yep and called out on it straight away by Jones.
OK I am biased, but I can’t see this performance as a positive for Mr. Turnbull.
Seriously, is it a good look to claim that suicide touches you closely because people kill themselves in your electorate?
I find it a teensy bit hard to believe that the Libs are tracking to win Adelaide. I could believe a Xenophon insurgency, but I doubt many Labor voters who desert them for Nick X will preference the Liberals before Labor coming back.
Not going to give Murdoch a click, even were it not paywalled, but I would suggest that you can only get to a Liberal with some creative NXT preference assumptions.
Sunday Telegraph hammered Turnbull over cuts to Headspace & it’s importance in tackling youth suicide. He can emote as much as he likes about how much The Gap in his electorate moves him deeply, but he needs to saddle up more strongly on this one.
(I can’t help thinking of the old ‘ambulance at the bottom of the cliff’ analogy..)
Boerwar – yes, good on Jones.
Turnbull just backflipped on HeadSpace funding cuts.
Turnbull is showing that he is out of touch with most people.
I think Turnbull misplaced his notes on mental health.
Zoomster:
Nope. We have a Gap here and could claim similarly. Nobody does.
Just imagine if the worm was on the job for this effort!
If Stewie Griffin had a lobotomy he’d be MalcolmTurnbull…
Wow a video from within detention.
Question from a Manus Is inmate.
zoomster @ #1176 Monday, June 20, 2016 at 10:23 pm
People in Sydney, especially in the Eastern Suburbs, grew up in the knowledge that the Gap was the prime suicide spot. Going on about it does not help anyone and does not give him any insight, just because it is in his electorate.
Turnbull’s kind word kind words were effective emoting. Audience liked it.
Now he lectures us on “RUOK?” as if he can up with it! A bit gutless for him to duck Govt responsibility for addressing youth suicide by giving us a lecture on how “we’re all responsible” for reaching out to youth at risk …
From Manus Island. Ouch. That is strong stuff.
Jones: “Can you offer him any hope”
Wow this must be soul-crushing for a wet Lib like Turnbull. No depths to which he’ll sell out.
Something tells me that tomorrow Q&A will get a ton of harsh criticisms in the media, including calls to defund / sell / disband the ABC.
They guy from Manus Island is a victim of Rudd.
Fixed.
Norwester
Fair do’s tho. Truffles has been part of the 0.01% for a number of years. Before that he was merely in the 0.1-1% so zero chance he would have even the slightest idea about the lives of the peasantry.
Have anyone asked how this journalist ended up in detention? I’m doubting he came by sea.
Confessions
Having grown up in Sydney I have to say that saying someone went to the Gap was a euphemism for suicide. it was the suicide place. I rather thought thath Turnbull was about to speak about something very personal and changed his mind.
Really? I thought it’s managed by companies contracted by the Australian government.
POROTI – Turnbull is the ruler of a foreign country.