No sign of those Newspoll state polls that I hoped might enliven the silly season, and it’s still another week until Essential Research returns. So for your edification, I offer the following state-by-state accounting of where the federal polling picture stands at state level (except Tasmania, for which there has been literally no data at all since the election). This is based on 35 polls in all: 25 from Essential, with unpublished state breakdowns; eight from Newspoll, including the quarterly breakdowns); one from Ipsos; and a Queensland-only result from Galaxy. Note that “Q3” below refers to the third quarter result for 2016, i.e. three months ago.
http://www.michaelwest.com.au/as-power-bills-swell-so-do-the-fortunes-of-power-companies-and-billionaires/
PeeBee:
It looks like a sprawling mansion.
Will Ley take any questions at the presser?
Has she gone yet? 😉
PeeBee
On the way there she suffered another attack of “Impulse buying” ?
BK:
Statement only, according to latest tweets on #auspol…
Classic
Bridget O’Flynn retweeted
Matt
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Matt @Matt_in_London
Deciding whether or not to buy $800k apartment?
Seconds.
Deciding whether or not to repay rorted expenses?
Several days.
Pungent.
#leybuy
Victoria:
From media reports Trump is champing at the bit to be sworn in.
*taps fingers*
Has she gone yet? 😉
That Michael West article is an excellent quality and a very important layout of what is happening for politicians
Fess
Of course he his. Trump is wholly unsuited to being Leader of the free world. he makes George W appear sane
C@t:
Perhaps she’s taken another unplanned trip to the Gold Coast!
Never thought there’d ever be a time when you could honestly say this about someone, but it’s def true re Trump!
Mordor Media gives Ley the thumbs down. The cover of the Daily Telegraph bodes ill for her future as a minister.
So she’s only temporarily standing aside.
rabbithat @ #106 Monday, January 9, 2017 at 10:17 am
I think she’s going.
What is the point of today after the statement yesterday otherwise.
She’s standing aside. Hopeless.
Ley stood aside.
No presser?
Ley has trouble with stopping the tears, She has been stood aside 🙂
Told you Turnbull has no moral or ethical fibre. He puts out a statement. Fmd
Stephanie Anderson
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#BREAKING: Statement from PM on @sussanley – “The Minister has agreed to stand aside without ministerial pay” #auspol
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Arthur Sinodinos appointed as acting Minister.
Abbott will be doing cartwheels
Here she is!
..,yeah, here she comes.
Ley live now
What a clusterf@@k of a govt. Labor should up the ante. Seriously. They are a complete and utter joke
Extreme close of eyes….. Not bloodshot.
That is hopeless. Turnbull has no spine at all.
victoria @ #41 Monday, January 9, 2017 at 8:55 am
Yes, so Alan said.
Ley’s defence seems to be that the Gold Coast is the centre of the political universe.
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Classic. @TurnbullMalcolm TEMPORARILY replaces thief @sussanley with known criminal, @A_Sinodinos. It just gets worse. #auspol #leybuy
I am not sure putting Senator I don’t recall is going in to replace is going to take attention away from the stink and pattern of how the LNP operates
Local paper (The Border Mail) has always been a big Ley promoter.
Today it has advertised across twitter and facebook that it would live stream the presser, and then directs you to this —
http://www.bordermail.com.au/story/4391849/rolling-coverage-sussan-ley-press-conference-in-albury/?cs=11
….which consists of precisely two statements:
‘10.26am: Ms Ley is almost half an hour late to the press conference.
9am: Sussan Ley has called a press conference at 10am in Albury to address unanswered questions over her travel expenses. We’ll be live streaming from her office at 10am. Follow us here.’
Ah, modern journalism….
Is that true re Sinodinos?
Thus Spake Mungo: Malcolm’s exciting foreign affairs
The first week of 2017 was dominated by the distraction of Australia’s spat with Indonesia – or more properly Indonesia’s spat with Australia.
The problem, it was belatedly revealed, was that the rotating troops training at the Campbell barracks in Perth were unhappy about some of the written material handed out for them and also about a couple of crude cracks from the local boys.
Not too serious, one might have thought; no more than locker room banter, as Donald Trump would no doubt call it. But obviously the crack fighters of Kopassus have not read The Australian. Apparently they are unaware that giving insult and offence to ethnic and religious groups is part of the Australian way of life – the bulwark of free speech.
But now our glorious leader may also be forced to a rethink over the perennial carpet of eggshells that is Israel.
And as we know, when America acts, Australia follows. To do so, of course, will further antagonise the Arab nations and embolden local jihadists at a time when Turnbull desperately wants to bring as many Australian Moslems as possible into his revamped version of Team Australia. But to defy Trump’s ukase will outrage his recalcitrant right, for whom Israel is their own Holy Land.
This is hardly the start Turnbull wants for his new year, which is meant to be about economic delivery. It will be both a domestic labyrinth demanding all his agility and yet another exciting foreign affair he could do without.
MUCH MORE : http://www.echo.net.au/2017/01/thus-spake-mungo-malcolms-exciting-foreign-affairs/
Sounds innocent to me. Cough.
bk @ #130 Monday, January 9, 2017 at 10:29 am
So when are they moving the Parliament there?
Barnaby’s action now become clearer,
by moving to his electorate he was actually trying to keep them closer to the Parliament. 🙂
OMG did she just blame the media?
“She (Ley) was educated at La Trobe University, the University of New South Wales and Charles Sturt University, and has master’s degrees in taxation and accountancy. She changed her name from Susan to Sussan due to a belief in numerology.”
She sounds like a nutter to me.
Fess
Remember Sinodinos fronting up to ICAC and not recalling anything at all about his role as treasurer in Sydney Water. he was stood aside at the trike, but he is now a cleanskin apparently. This is the standard of this govt. Gutterlevel
Damn auto correct. Trike – time
No rules were broken, but I will be paying some money back.
#BREAKING: Statement from PM on @sussanley – “The Minister has agreed to stand aside without ministerial pay” #auspol
The perfect illustration of Turnbull’s dilemma. He can’t keep her, but he’s too weak to get rid of her. So limbo for Ley and the stupidity drags on. When does she get her gig back? What are the criteria?
Stupid, spineless decision.
Turnbull is easily the biggest pissant to lead a major party in Australia’s history. Downer would have played this dickhead off a break.
She’s suspended until? Off to the sin bin for 10 minutes is it Mal?
Wild excitement as ‘The Border Mail’ adds a sentence to its rolling coverage.
Victoria
Yes. It also shows how desperate and dire Turnbull’s situation is. Bad as he is Abbott has a cleaner reputation with the public.
Who knows how many units Sinodonis might have bought but forgotten about?
Ratsak
Spot on. It is really that bad……
victoria @ #131 Monday, January 9, 2017 at 10:30 am
Is it too late to say “Please come back Sussan, all is forgiven!”
She changed her name from Susan to Sussan due to a belief in numerology.
Travel expense claims being entirely made up of fortuitous numbers.
Vic:
I do remember that, and yes, it would seem Sinodinos has now been rehabilitated.
I reckon it’s a stretch though to call him a known criminal.