The BludgerTrack poll aggregate has provided remarkably little excitement since it resumed two months ago, with the two-party preferred reading never moving more than a few fractions of a point away from 52-48 in favour of Labor, and the seat projections never changing at any stage, either in aggregate or at the state level. This week is no exception, the only new addition being a lightly weighted result from Essential Research. The Roy Morgan results that were reported in the previous post have been added to the leadership ratings, without effecting any change worth mentioning.
BludgerTrack: 52.0-48.0 to Labor
One new poll on voting intention and one on leadership ratings find the BludgerTrack poll aggregate maintaining its recent boring form.
Government loses the vote 33-29.
Senate votes down plebiscite, 33/29
Sanity prevails in the Senate. Never thought I’d say that with the flotsam and jetsam currently occupying the Senate benches!
Klein and Watson verbose…
Paterson verbose…
poroti,
I’m actually very interested in the down ballot contests and to see whether the Dems regain control of the Senate. Also I am hoping that the Republicans suffer enough blowback by voters who have correctly perceived their dysfunctionality and divided nature to vote them out in the various State contests.
boerwar @ #1254 Monday, November 7, 2016 at 9:44 pm
Paterson exposed for the twerp he is.
sprocket_ @ #1252 Monday, November 7, 2016 at 9:39 pm
I don’t know much about the procedure.
Does that mean that it is now a dead parrot, or can the HOR send it to the Senate again and again? Third time lucky?
Not happy camper
“A government MP has launched a blistering attack on coalition colleagues for “cuddling” up to One Nation, singling out outspoken MP George Christensen for criticism.
Russell Broadbent used a late-night speech to parliament to call out the Nationals MP and Pauline Hanson’s party, saying Australia must rise above the politics of fear and rhetoric that encouraged division.
Mr Broadbent criticised Senator Hanson’s maiden speech labelling as “bogus” the claim that Australia was in danger of being swamped by Muslims.”
Read more at http://www.9news.com.au/national/2016/11/07/19/47/liberal-mp-slams-one-nation-christensen#wjeulq0Pd74eUCb5.99
BW,
Paterson verbose…
‘Paterson up himself.’
There, fixed it! ; )
Current questioner verbose…
Don
The defeated Bill can be reintroduced in 3 month stime, and if it fails to pass the Senate again, becomes a trigger for a double disolution election
Georgina Downer has not fallen far from the tree.
S
Ain’t gunna happen.
Georgina caught out telling porkies. Her reaction was to be verbose!
Albo takes down Patterson nicely.
PeeBee
Yep. Like father like daughter.
Oh they can certainly try again to get the plebiscite legislation through, as many times as they like. But we can certainly now say their won’t be a plebiscite in February 2017.
Am I the only person who found Watson’s bio of Keating turgid?
I’ve tried reading it half a dozen times but have given up after up to 100 pages at best.
Now that’s verbose.
Georgina ‘the facts don’t bear that out’ Albo teaching her that they DO!
sprocket_ @ #1262 Monday, November 7, 2016 at 9:49 pm
Thanks Sprocket, much appreciated. Is it likely that it will be reintroduced in three months time, or are the political winds such that it will be quietly forgotten about by the government, possibly with a sigh of relief?
Don:
The govt could try re-introducing it again, but why? The desired effect has been achieved: marriage equality dead, buried and cremated for this parliament anyways.
Listening to Liberal liars misrepresenting the HRC and the Racial Discrimination Act. Paterson and Downer are such lousy skunks.
Patterson is another IPA incubus.
What about Exit Australia’s Peaceful Pill Handbook?
Banned!
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-07/indigenous-slavery-class-action-may-target-private-organisations/8002682
One of the people quoted in the article, Lester Coyne is a man I know and respect.
C
Vesteys would owe Indigenous stockmen and stockwomen a quid or two.
C
I know a guy who was paid a bag of lollies for three month’s droving.
Boerwar
As would Gina the Hutt and her maaaates from China when the deal goes though.
[Government loses the vote 33-29.]
Another bad Abbott idea dealt with.
Boerwar:
Unpaid wages to indigenous Australians has been a festering sore for quite a while now. I don’t blame those affected and their descendants for wanting just recompense.
IMO, tonight’s Q&A is not nearly as good as last week’s, even though last week’s panel consistently mainly of relatively inarticulate regional folk. They were much better at cutting to the chase.
Tonight’s mob mostly like to hear their own voice warble on and on.
C
Agree.
P
Gina might reckon that a bag of lollies would be over the top.
Or is Patterson a sucubus? I get my – buses mixed up.
boerwar @ #1278 Monday, November 7, 2016 at 10:01 pm
Must have been good lollies.
Watson… ah hah… finally getting some good insights on the US…
H
He did not specify.
His alternative career choice was getting whipped for running away from the stock camp. He tried that once as a teenager, got whipped, wore the marks on his back, and went for the softer lolly option.
Laura Tingle on the govt’s approach to Day’s woes and the Cullerton matter:
Read more: http://www.afr.com/news/coalitions-lack-of-curiosity-about-bob-day-a-serious-concern-20161107-gsjwcl#ixzz4PJv7Neft
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And it makes the govt look even more lazy for its lack of curiosity, as Tingle asserts. Honestly, we are so poorly served by this mob.
C
Born-to-rule slackarses, IMO.
Patterson gives Bernardi a backhander.
Anyone feeling ripped off?
[Former prime minister Tony Abbott has weighed into the resurfaced election campaign issue of marriage equality, claiming Australians will feel “ripped off” if MPs refuse to back legislation to allow a plebiscite on same-sex marriage in Parliament.]
Georgina Downer, the thingo that does not matter?
MH
Ripped off? Nope. Ripped?
Klein never uses ten words when 200 will do.
#Newspoll Federal 2 Party Preferred: L/NP 47 (-1) ALP 53 (+1) #auspol
S
Stop teasing us, please.
From Ghost Who Votes:
Newspoll TPP
ALP 53
LNP 47
#Newspoll Federal Primary Votes: L/NP 39 (0) ALP 38 (+1) GRN 10 (0) #auspol
Correct answer for Patterson ‘when coal stop paying us’.