The latest reading of BludgerTrack records next to no movement on national voting intention, the only new addition to the dataset being a status quo Essential Research result. However, the Coalition has picked up two in Queensland on the seat projection on the back of a relatively good set of numbers from the Queensland-only Galaxy poll published by the Courier-Mail yesterday. This found the Coalition at 39%, compared with 43.2% at the election; Labor at 30%, compared with 30.9%; the Greens on 8%, compared with 8.8%; and One Nation with 12%, compared with 5.5%. The poll was conducted Wednesday and Thursday of the week before last from a sample of 900. No new data on leadership ratings this week.
Potatohead blames ALP. same old.
Snort
guytaur @ #372 Monday, November 21, 2016 at 2:59 pm
Very true.
NIck X needs very little excuse to go all patriotic and stubborn. It plays to his crowd and keeps him in the news.
Barnaby has given him a sack full excuses.
Wow Dutton expert at demonising and bullying will feature in a bad way on the news tonight
Shorten has got under the skin of the Potato.
simon katich @ #189 Monday, November 21, 2016 at 2:55 pm
My first Turkish coffee was shortly after arriving in Cairo.
Fantastic coffee but I quickly learnt after the first one you don’t drink it all.
Vietnam is great for coffee.
Cafe da is the most common which is basically an iced espresso.
SK,
The Pine Nut could have been a Lebanese addition.
Quite so. Presumably the Coalition.
Yes. They probably have an oversupply. : )
I think Dutton just said that his opinion is that Lebanese Muslims should not have been allowed to enter the country some decades ago, because some of their grandkids became criminals?
After Barnyard went off reservation, Turnbull obviously called up X and reassured him that Barnyard had gone off script. That’s why X described Barnyard as “free ranging”. Labor has picked up on that. If X believes Malcolm’s bullshit he’s even dumber than I thought.
Chris Uhlman not a fan of Joyce 😆
C@t, there used to be an awesome (!!!) Lebanese restaurant near Stanmore (I think). Great coffee there too.
They must be losing respect for Australian parly: shouty Barnaby, Dutton, ScoMo.
Lizzie,
Michaelia Cash’s jacket also looks like it was made from the cast-off skins of Coalition MPs :}
Coalition staffers’ workplace revolt over pay and conditions escalates:
http://www.smh.com.au/national/public-service/coalition-staffers-workplace-revolt-over-pay-and-conditions-escalates-20161121-gstrr7.html
C@Tmomma
I feel quite exhausted after watching all that posturing and shouting, reaching for MUTE so often.
SK,
I grew up in Stanmore. My family bought a house there in 1923 for 12 Pounds. : )
I was spoilt for choice when it came to fine dining. Norton Street, Leichardt; Glebe Point Road; Newtown; Stanmore; Marrickville.
Going on those job application performances no wonder the LNP has not had a spill happen
Lizzie,
I think the Coalition droogs are trying to emulate Trump. They don’t succeed at all and just sound plain nasty.
When I went to uni, I lived on Lebanese food. Those were the days when you could get proper kebabs, not the rubbish they scrape off a big greasy stick. Anyone who wants a great Turkish breakfast go to Effende in Balmain. Basically $30 a head for all you can eat. Wonderful food.
Guytaur,
Lol. : )
Paul Keating never had to shout. Whitlam never had to shout. And even on the Coalition side, two of their better performers, Howard and Costello never had to shout.
I think Dutton just lost the Lebanese vote for a couple of generation
I’m not sure that sure that I should be the one to point out the following.
The last 2 or 3 pages have been restricted to comment criticizing “playschool”.
Fair go dudes.
Leave Barney the Bludger, Mally the Duck , Mr. Potato Head to the real children please.
:razz::
I note Shorten tends to ask his questions in a quiet and measured way
Barnaby spooked by the NSW Orange election. Very close to home for him.
Are the Lebanese the Australian Mexicans for the LNPs Trumpettes
C@t, its an awesome area. Thanks to the immigrants who, in large part, made it so.
I remember picking up a mate of a mate from Stanmore on a hiking trip to Kanangra Boyd. This bloke lived in a wonderful house and was a decedent of Wentworth. I didnt like him. He packed light and made fun of me (I like to pack heavy). I wasnt impressed when, half way to nowhere, he asked me for toilet paper.
There is a kernel of truth to this. Australia managed, by not managing our intake of migrants from Lebanon during the civil war, to pick up the dregs of society. To be precise: what I am saying is that some of the migrants from Lebanon during this period were not nice people. They were often already ostracised from their own communities before moving here, due to their behaviour and questionable activities, and it is no surprise they continued them here.
That they happened to be Lebanese and muslim is beside the point. The many Lebanese people and Australians of Lebanese heritage that I know are typically either ashamed or exasperated or both by this very small minority sullying their country’s name.
However, that Dutton is using this as a political football says a lot about him – his generalisations are nothing short of racial slurs – but none of this is of any surprise to us here on PB.
Dutton cannot say Fraser made a mistake because of the actions of the kids or grandkids … that is saying Fraser needed to be psychic to be aware of the actions of unborn people.
It also then implies that he needs to know, in advance, what any current refugees’ grandkids will do. Unfortunately, Mr Potatohead doesn’t apprehend reality now, so in 2050 …?????
AB11
I missed qt. But how stupid is Dutton. It is not for politicians to expose law and order issues within ethnic communities. These are highly sensitive matters that are dealt with by law enforcement. It is not for people such as Dutton to politicise.
Terrorism and crime within certain ethnic communities is a very serious problem that is not going to be resolved overnight
Which may well be true. But didn’t seem like Dutton’s point. He seemed to be saying that those people shouldn’t have gotten in, not because they were shady at the time, but because of things their children’s children did decades later.
I don’t think that’s a logically defensible position? If it is, it certainly begs the quetion about what should have been done about all those white Europeans who came here only to sire subsequent generations containing some number of thieves and murderers each time. By Dutton’s reasoning, those European migrants are all undesirables.
Dutton throwing accusations of dishonesty and cowardice across the chamber at Shorten only shows his sleazy nature. KMurphy, I think, referred to “truncheon tactics”.
These may be more or less right. I had little idea of the relativities between Arctic spaces and Australia until I started fiddling around with the following:
The Arctic is losing sea-ice extent at an annual rate equivalent to approximately land area of Tasmania.So, we’ve lost ten Tasmanias worth of sea-ice in the last ten years.
Another approach is to think about it like this: right now Arctic sea-ice extent is the equivalent to the loss of around ten Victorias worth of sea ice compared to the thirty year mean.
Another way to think of the area currently below the 30 year mean would be to drive directly from Melbourne to Cooktown, were that possible, and have a fifty kilometer wide swathe of lost ice on both sides as you drive.
So Turnbull getting a one hour meeting with the out going US President in Lima is useful for what?
CTaR1
Nice touch: adding ‘farmers’ to ‘shooters’ and ‘fishers’.
The ‘miners’ will not be liking that at all, at all.
They have pawned the Nats for decades.
Basically, we have a minister saying to an ethnic group: “You shouldn’t be here and I wish you weren’t here”. Absolutely reprehensible. Fairfax had no problem calling on Shorten to resign. Are they going to call for Dutton to resign?
LU
Law enforcement here in Victoria have been given an abundance of resources to deal with the terrorism threats and crime within this particular ethnic community. It is a big challenge, but we dont need the likes of Dutton to politicise it. Disgraceful conduct by him.
boerwar @ #236 Monday, November 21, 2016 at 3:45 pm
Fortunately it has virtually no impact on sea levels.
** Ugly scene at Adelade Airport as South African security rough up a Ch 9 journalist **
Just catching up on the footage.
Nothing scream GUILTY more than over zealous security.
No doubt it wasn’t. But he’s tapping into a kernel of truth, and one that is openly spoken about in the Lebanese community itself.
I completely agree with you.
AB11
Dutton can wish these people were not in this country, but they are Australian citizens and we have law enforcement tasked with the job of dealing with them. Dutton’s commentary is unhelpful. It only makes these nasty people more determined. They already scoff at the law and the govt. It is so counterproductive.
BiS
Directly, true.
Indirectly, all that dark sea water soaking up the sun instead of all that white ice reflecting it…
Mark Di Stefano @MarkDiStef 2h2 hours ago
Labor’s Graham Perrett yells from the backbench at Josh Frydenberg: “Tell us about the mean streets of Kew!”
Rob_Stott: lmao George Brandis caught out sledging the Qld opposition on an open mic
Dutton is to his audience as Di Natale is to his audience.
They appear to share an unwillingness to talk to people other than their own.
BevanShields: Hot mic also catches George Brandis saying the LNP merger in Queensland may be revisited #auspol
workmanalice: AG George Brandis didn’t know a microphone was on and was caught calling the QLD Liberal Opposition “very very mediocre” #auspol.