The return of Newspoll, along with the usual weekly result from Essential Research, has docked both major parties slightly on the primary vote, with One Nation continuing to go onward and upward. The difference on two-party preferred is slightly in favour of Labor, who also pick up one in Queensland on the seat projection. Leadership ratings from Newspoll send both leaders downward on net satisfaction, with no change on preferred prime minister.
Looks like the NSW Tories are going to take a pounding with the decision to push ahead with metropolitan council amalgamations while backing off on the regional ones. Its all about boosting developers and Baird is looking more like a cut n run merchant.
The shine will come off Berejiklian pretty quick at this rate – particularly with the number of by-elections coming.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/premier-gladys-berejiklian-prepares-for-north-shore-byelection-backlash-over-mergers-20170214-gucjy7.html
antonbruckner11 @ #946 Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 6:18 pm
No worries. Just another 5 parts per million C02 added to the atmosphere while Mal defends his PMship at all costs. I mean, we have a whole 100-odd ppm to go before we get to catastrophic levels, right? Say 20 years or so (since the rate of growth increases every year) – that’s plenty of time to do something about it, surely?
Now Sky News are doing SA blackout and pricing stories with businesses.
Antonbruckner11
Labor is going to have to push renewables with more conviction. Renewables are very popular in the community, particularly household solar. This is also starting to make a big difference on hot days, saving NSW’s skin on Saturday.
Labor could start by offering to increase the feed-in tariffs for solar PV – including batteries in the mix. This may be a state issue, but the Commonwealth should work with the States on this.)
No one is going to finance a new coal fired power station – unless it’s the Coalition, despite the advice of commentators like Graham Richardson who are either lying, in an ideological fug, or don’t understand the relative costs of new coal versus solar.
Google
If there’s going to be a massacre, it should be the proponents of “clean coal” economics.
If Shorten came out with some sound policies on household solar in particular, he could fix his personal ratings and a big chunk of the storage issue.
There are plenty of people who are intending to invest in solar plus batteries. It there was a decent feed-in tariff it would become a no-brainer.
If it requires further upgrading of the network and metering, then do it, even if it requires putting a gun to the head of the network operators.
frednk @ #949 Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 6:25 pm
I think you’re being unkind to Kristina Keneally by lumping her into a general pile called “the press”.
trog sorrenson @ #954 Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 6:35 pm
Sheesh! What saved NSW’s “skin” was the dumping of aluminium smelting for the day. Also, while it didn’t seem to get reported (at least I didn’t see any reports) there actually was load shedding – 2 regions that I know of had hour long blackouts, both attributed to “faults”. Very handy, that.
A detailed analysis of the contribution of solar.
http://reneweconomy.com.au/rooftop-solar-saved-the-day-but-households-got-paid-a-pittance-27844/
trog sorrenson @ #957 Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 6:43 pm
And just for a change … a dose of reality – http://www.afr.com/news/newcastles-tomago-smelter-braces-for-possible-catastrophe-20170210-gua1l4
A great quote in the comments section of KK’s article
“‘Now does he feel his title
hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe
upon a dwarfish thief’
.
Sorry if this has already been posted. Alternative facts rule in the IPA.
http://reneweconomy.com.au/conservatives-attack-chief-scientist-for-failing-to-toe-fossil-fuel-line-79285/
Sigh,
Rex Douglas on one side and now Player 1 on the other.
I suppose that counts as balance
Dovey:
Jokers to the left of me, clowns to the right….
. And some Australian states still have the ‘gay panic’ defence on the books, which sucks just about as much
Which ones?
ides of march @ #962 Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 7:05 pm
Hey! I’m on the left – just not as far as Rex!
Shell:
QLD has it.
P1:
Left of what though. Being left of the Bernardi is a Smarty Party isnt hard.
“What saved NSW’s “skin” was the dumping of aluminium smelting for the day. Also, while it didn’t seem to get reported (at least I didn’t see any reports) there actually was load shedding – 2 regions that I know of had hour long blackouts, both attributed to “faults””
So NSW coal-based power supply was inadequate on Saturday. ROTFL 🙂
So to make it reliable, they should phase out the coal plants. Even better, phase out Morrison, Joyce, Frydenberg, Turnbull and their pet rocks.
Anton,
The problem with “tap dancing” is you keep falling in the sink.
P1,
You’re a hard centre just like me!
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Sharia law is not an issue in Australia so why is that Unicorn being pulled out of the cupboard? In Australia Cannon law is an issue.
There are three major Abraham religions Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It would seem the older the break the bigger the argument.
frdnk,
Watch this to learn about Hansen and others…….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s60hOgqLFGg
OH
MY
FUCKING
GOD!!!!
I’d heard about Burke’s POO about requiring Barnyard to answer in English. But Kudelka has the question and answer that led to it.
https://twitter.com/jonkudelka/status/831378637152669696
How the Speaker could do other than uphold the point of order is beyond conception.
Barney’s too dumb to be quoting Ern Malley surely? (Ern Malley makes more sense even as prose though)
lizzie
…
http://reneweconomy.com.au/conservatives-attack-chief-scientist-for-failing-to-toe-fossil-fuel-line-79285/
The IPA should stop listening to their own crap and start listening to people that know what they are talking about.
The IPA should stop listening to their own crap and start listening to people that know what they are talking about.
If they did that what use would they be to their secret donors?
Player One
Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 6:53 pm
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The Tomago smelter draws 12 per cent of NSW’s power and its sacrifice appeared to have averted wider outages in the NSW grid.
NSW in a coal state; so how does this support you nonsense?
Barney in Saigon
Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 6:36 pm
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I think you’re being unkind to Kristina Keneally by lumping her into a general pile called “the press”.
True
greensborough growler @ #968 Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 7:18 pm
Yes, I’ve always considered myself a “leftie” – but on this site I am definitely a “centrist”.
frednk @ #975 Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 7:33 pm
\What part didn’t you understand? I’ll try to type slower.
DAVE – I haven’t watched much of Gladys, but when she said, at her press conference: “To be honest, hand on heart, I have to admit …” I thought, she’s not gonna cut it. Now she’s decided that she’s going to help out her country bumpkin mates and screw people in the city. Talking about adding insult to injury.
I don’t know what Barnaby means when he uses words.
Frednk
“In Australia Cannon law is an issue.”
You got it in one.
And as noted at the Royal Comm today in general reference to documents ex the Rome Curia, not one woman participates in the writing of the rules and advices.
On the matter of the RC, today for the first time I heard the public gallery applaud on 3 occasions. All 3 occasions were when a Franciscan ( one of the most sensible, human and humane speakers I’ve heard at the RC) commented on the evidence of a nun, Sr Lydia Allen RSM (a Yank working here).
Sr Allen spoke the most ridiculous, nonsensical, crap I have heard from anyone at the RC, including that homosexuals and paedofiles are often one and the same.
In favourably justifying some aspects of Canon Law, she argued that Cannon Law was correct because it is based on the “natural order”. Homosexuality was the actual topic, and there are no homosexuals in nature, says she. The reason, says she, is that God created the masculine and the feminine, period.
She BTW is the recruiter/gatekeeper for the Holy Spirit Seminary in Sydney, and one of her tasks (with documented orders from Rome) is to keep out (note…. “is to keep out” and not “was to keep out” …. her role is current and ongoing) “deeply seated homosexuals”. The Commissioners tried at length to get her to explain the difference between “deeply seated”, and “not deeply seated homosexuals” …. she kept talking, but it was all nonsense.
I suspect that the reason she was given so much time was that all the 5 Commissioners who were present were happy to allow her to build up their file “examples of stupid people in authority in the Catholic church”.
Player One
Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 7:39 pm
frednk @ #975 Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 7:33 pm
NSW in a coal state; so how does this support you nonsense?
\What part didn’t you understand? I’ll try to type slower.
Oh let me try; NSW had to load shed because the relied on coal and there was not enough solar installed?
Blackouts in SA because they relied on a gas station that never started; more wind generators should be installed!
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It is ‘canon’ not ‘cannon’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_law
Although arguably ‘loose cannon’ law appears to apply.
That reset button must be just about burnt out, surely ?
SBS news, wtte that Trunbull is desperate for a legislative win to hit the reset button for the new year.
By the time Labor get back into government, the button will be near buggered, and one use will break it.
Boerwar
Thank you for the spelling correction; feel free to use the extra n as you wish. If you have any spare r’s could you send them over so I can spell your as your instead of you.
boerwar
Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 7:48 pm
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Don’t waste your n until you get a few more letters to sprinkle around it.
F
No worries.
The Abbott/Turnbull governments gutted hundreds of millions from Indigenous programs, foisted Mundine on all of us, and continue to inflict that serial incompetent, blame shifter and liar Scullion as Minister for Indigenous Affairs.
And today we had the Empty Suit mewling platitudes and empathy about closing the gap.
Arsehole.
nice Zooms
frednk @ #982 Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 7:44 pm
NSW didn’t have enough power – of any description. NSW uses coal, gas and various renewables. It’s as silly to pick one and blame it as it is to pick one and say “it saved the day”.
No, everyone knows that the problem in NSW was wimpy renewable electrons leaking over from SouthAustralia.
You know, I was listening to that Neil Mitchell takedown of Pauline Hanson and it just occurred to me that if we want to see our hopes realised and the politicians who are miscreants exposed for what they are, a fact which is obvious to us but maybe not so much to others who do not have so much energy invested in politics, then we have to pin our hopes to announcers like Neil Mitchell.
As much as we may have our issues with Mitchell himself, and others like him, it is only as and when his type connects with a vast swathe of the electorate that, like a school of fish or a flock of birds, the turning occurs. Or begins to occur.
I say this with a heavy heart as those same people just don’t seem to want to listen to what the vast majority of politicians have to say any more and believe it to be true.
Fredn’k
I have plenty of spare “random apostrophes’ you can borrow .
Sadly Neil Mitchell broadcasts in Melbourne, the constituency in Australia least likely to buy Hanson’s nonsense. I can’t see his Sydney counterparts following suit.
P1,
You are actually a moderate with a reasoned approach to most issues.
You have a few kinks. But, hey who doesn’t?
I’m a Catholic.
Cheers.
Last Night @ 11.18pm
“Jacqui Lambie makes me feel bipolar, fair dinkum! One minute I am nodding my head in agreement. Next minute I want to clock her!”
I thought that the ignorance shown by those on PB who use mental illness as a metaphor, figure of speech, or rhetorical flourish was satisfactorily dealt with a couple of weeks back.
Apparently not.
Further it is not a characteristic of Bipolar Disorder that sufferers experience urges to “clock people”. Nor is one of the manifestations of the disorder that they fluctuate between agreeing and not agreeing with others.
For the record, Bipolar Disorder is characterised by mood fluctuations between very depressed and very alert and hyperactive (manic). Extremes at both end of the scale can result in a depressive psychosis or a manic psychosis.
A VG lol political poster
Just for fun, a Tracey Ullman look at Murdoch and his family. She also does wonderful send ups of Angela Merkel, Nicola Sturgeon, Judi Dench and Camilla.
https://youtu.be/6elmueOl4do