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.
Patterson gets an inkling from the audience wants more action on global warming.
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sprocket_ @ #1296 Monday, November 7, 2016 at 10:19 pm
Woohoo!
Malcolm, get all your compatriots to check their daggers at the door, but watch your back in any case!
BW
Ripped?
Definitely a bigger concern for Abbott than ME.
This energy questioner on qanda is great
The widening?
Last week Turnbull did domestic violence, breast cancer and a bit of paternalism.
And now look what happens.
Albanese doing very well in an understated way, IMO.
James Patterson looks like a school chum of Sebastian Flyte.
Paterson copping a pizzling from all sides,including the audience on QandA. Glorious to watch.
this newspoll has not surprised me this time around. The coalition govt is hopeless and the electorate are onto them
H
I was trying to pin it down and was thinking maybe an underfed Billy Bunter crossed with a bit of Adrian Mole.
But I like Sebastian Flyte. It is spooky stuff.
Klein calling out IPA on climate. First time I’ve seen this on TV
Naomi nicely calls out Patterson’s and Georgina’s IPA links.
Bang!
Klein nails Patterson and Downer to the IPA and to climate science denial.
Yeesh, that Klein can certainly talk!
New thread.
Bingo!
John
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Dick Cheney (made 39.5 billion by killing a million Iraqis) supporters are pissed off that Hillary won’t be executed over sending an email.
Downer is not very good at bullshitting at all.
The IPA does not have a political agenda, she reckons!
Georgina struggling to justify the IPA stance on climate change. Naomi cuts her another one!
“The climate science is a constantly evolving science” says IPA head.
Yeah, it’s constantly evolving to show the increasingly warming trend!
Seriously why is the ABC giving this kind of crank view a platform?
Carefully Naomi, our tough guy senator Malcolm Roberts will be sending you some nasty tweets.
Hi all, here I am to annoy you again.
Now, I think you guys and gals should give up this birth certificate thing about Tony Abbott. YOu are being just like Donald Trump with the “birther” thing in regard to Mr Obama. In the end D. Trump gave it up, because it’s nonsense and petty and somewhat nasty and he completely put that aside a while ago. Because it’s stupid.
Just saying.
Abbott’s place of birth and naturalisation in Australia are not in doubt.
The issue of dual citizenship here is not the equivalent of birtherism. The US constitution prohibits people not ‘natural born citizens’ from ever being president. Nothing to be done. It is a silly provision, but it’s a simple one, and the implications are simple and set in stone.
Our constitution prevents people being MPs if they owe any loyalty to another country. Anyone who is or has been a citizen of another country is quite able to become a federal MP here – all they have to do is renounce their other citizenship. It’s not an onerous set-in-stone requirement. It mainly comes down to laziness (or actual attachment to the foreign power!) if a person fails to meet this criterion.
If Abbott (or anyone else) did not renounce his UK citizenship before becoming an Australian federal MP it’s a sign of either laziness, incompetence or thinking that the rules simply didn’t apply to him.
Surely there is a statement of sole allegiance included in an oath of office?
I know there are some odd cases where the other country may not legally support renouncing citizenship. I’m not sure of the law in these cases but in my opinion the renunciation should be sufficient with no requirement to have it validated by the other nation. Any evidence of such an MP taking advantage of their involuntary status as a citizen of the other country would support a ruling that they forfeit their eligibility to sit in parliament I guess.
Dont know that BW’s issues with public transport are relevant ……but know fer sure that Patterson is a nasty little IPA twit. 🙁
Great day in the morning! : )
53-47
The electorate just want someone with a half decent, with the emphasis on ‘decent’, agenda to lead them.
Echo! Echo! Echo!
Senator Brandis has withdrawn his order that led to Gleeson resigning to avoid a vote.