The Essential Research fortnight rolling average maintains its recent habit of shifting between 53-47 and 54-46, the latest instalment going from the latter to the former. On the primary vote, the Coalition is up a point to 37% and Labor is down one to 36%, with the Greens and One Nation steady at 10% and 8%, so that the result is in all respects identical to the week before last. The poll also finds 40% think Tony Abbott should resign from parliament, 17% that he should stay on the back bench, and another 17% that he should be given a position in the ministry. This is worse for him than when the same questions were posed in August last year, when the respective results were 37%, 21% and 25%. Other findings relate to the tightening of 457 visas: 16% said they went too far, 28% not far enough, and 39% that they were about right; 59% approved of allowing visa holders to apply for permanent residency, against 23% disapprove; 78% agreed that those applying for permanent residency should first be put on a probationary visa, against only 10% for disagree.
The Australian also had extra questions from Newspoll, which found that 70% favoured the government prioritising spending cuts over 20% for increasing taxes, but that only 30% favoured cuts to welfare payments with 61% opposed.
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So the big announcement on gas boils down to Canavan writing to producers today to propose a scheme that they will then consult with the industry on.
Wa#k.
KayJay, the simple ones.
😛 – {:P}
🙂 – {:)}
😉 – {;)}
🙁 – {:(}
**So the big announcement on gas boils down to….Wa#k.**
They used to call it feeding the chickens. But I think you are closer to it. Maybe a Circus Wa#k? Or, as it involves large companies and the MSM, a group Feltch.
Kiddies, dont google those!
“So the big announcement on gas boils down to Canavan writing to producers today to propose a scheme that they will then consult with the industry on.”
But, but…it was given such prominence on AM, same as the Snowy-Hydro grand plan.
You’d think that the ABC could employ some journalists with a bit of natural skepticism.
Does anyone have any further info on the Shorten presser?
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Right Gerbils not liking link.
Check out Inkl app. Its good for newsreading including paywalled sites.
Ratsak
“As hopeless as Corbyn seems in the House he has proven to be an excellent campaigner on the hustings.”
Well, Corbyn is popular with the Labour base, who turn up in droves to his rallies. But when it comes to attracting votes beyond the base, Corbyn is an utterly hopeless campaigner. Just look at the Copeland byelection – a Labour seat picked up by the Tories.
Kakaru
Look at the poll published in The Times. Brefret vote growing.
Grrr another typo.
Thats Bregret.
Barney in Go Dau @ #103 Thursday, April 27th, 2017 – 11:37 am
:p hasn’t worked for me in the past. Unless it needs to be 😛 with an uppercase ‘P’?
Times tracking poll showing Tories ahead of Labour by 46% to 26%. In other words, the Tories already massive lead is actually INCREASING.
So if “Bregret” is a thing, then there’s no evidence (yet) that it’s working to Corbyn’s advantage.
Darn
Sorry, I can’t remember the questions – around gas supply, raising debt, housing affordability… nothing new.
But Shorten answered each one steadily and sensibly.
Kakaru.
So the writer is wrong to say the Tory vote has shrunk this week?
lizzie @ #115 Thursday, April 27, 2017 at 12:31 pm
Well, for goodness sake! How does he expect to get any media coverage?
Formal complaint lodged against the Potato by the refugees involved.
Hopefully it will at least come back with a finding that he’s a lying Potato.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/apr/27/manus-refugees-who-fed-child-lodge-complaint-about-duttons-false-allegations
http://www.theage.com.au/comment/age-discrimination-at-work-now-happening-to-people-as-young-as-45-20170427-gvtg13.html
This is not new!!!
@ Kakuru – the big shift since the election has been announced from Bregret is the collapse of UKIP from 10.7% down to 7.5%
Kakaru
Why would anyone think increasing anti-Brexit feelings would help Corbyn?
Trump not breaking NAFTA treaty. Not going to trade war with Canada.
Breaking via CNN
Player One
You’re so right. The only thing he did that could be criticised was his occasional use of “ah” when thinking. But that’s boring now 😉
Another broken promise to his base by Trump.
VE
Aye, the Tories are benefitting from the collapse in the UKIP vote. Not Labour.
Barney In Go Dau
The poison Potato has arse covered as he used lots of “I have been advised that” ,”My advice from XYZ has been that” etc while pedaling lies. If shit its the fan a suitably unimportant underling will be scapegoated.
The Sky News Twitter feed has quite a few long grabs of the Shorten presser if anyone is interested.
Guytaur
“So the writer is wrong to say the Tory vote has shrunk this week?”
Dunno. That’s one poll. The aggregate tracking polls show even more daylight between the Tories and Labour.
Corbyn is a dud. Sadly, Labour is going to get done like a dinner. On the night of June 8, Corbyn will have only himself to blame.
Kakaru.
The poll I linked to has an about Bregret has an opening paragrah about the fall in the TORY vote.
lizzie
I remember my father, back in the seventies, complaining that he wasn’t able to find a job because he was over forty.
Kakaru
Yeah the one poll that the headline article introduces the term Bregret.
It may be the start of a trend. The tracking poll is not picking this up yet because its one poll to be confirmed or disproved by others over time
I hope you’re right Guytaur. But I’m skeptical of Corbyn Labour getting anything other than a caning.
Those conservatives are right up to the minute – just got a notification on twitter that someone had ‘liked’ a criticism the local Libs made of me in 2012…
Corbyn is so hopeless he’s not going to benefit from bregret. I’ve got a hat ready to eat if wrong.
@ Kakuru – I probably should have expanded my point a little.
You win a UK general election by winning seats, not votes.
UKIP did not win seats (they won a seat I believe, 1/650) last election. The Tories do not need to worry about putting resources into their seats to protect them from UKIP. They never have needed to worry. They also do not have UKIP seats that they can target to gain.
As this election is Hard Brexit (Tory/UKIP) vs Soft Brexit Labour vs No Brexit LDP/SNP, any seat that had significant UKIP voters, will already be quite pro-Brexit, as so would be likely to vote Conservative at the next election regardless of whether UKIP is doing well or not.
So yes, UKIP collapse gives Tories more votes. I’m not convinced it will give them more seats.
Also, people who voted Conservative last election, and Remain in the referendum are likely to switch to Lib Dems (who are up from 7% to 10% over the past 6 months). This may gain Labour seats if the order was Con > Labour > Lib Dem. Or it may gain the Lib Dem’s seats, which still benefits Labour in the event of no majority government.
Kakaru
May has gambled on Brexit being the winner.
Bregret shows that may have been a major miscalculation.
Corbyn campaigning as outsider with people against elites. May just do a lot better than thought.
These are the same commentators that said the Brexit vote would fail
So sceptical is ok. Assuming outcome I think is another thing entirely.
Pollsters in UK have been working on accuracy.
However saying now Labor will win is a long long shot. However if that one poll is picking up a real change things could be getting interesting
Zoomster
Yes, it was ‘well known’ that 40 was over the hill.
I can only assume that the researchers are young enough to think they have discovered something new. And the reporters…
Lizzie
‘George Monbiot
I’d rather live with Jeremy Corbyn’s gentle dithering in pursuit of a better world than give May a mandate to destroy what remains of British decency’
Well, George, the beauty of having Corbyn as the utterly incompetent left LOTO, is that you get to have both.
What is with the far Left around the world that they don’t get simple binaries?
They think that Trump/Clinton is the same thing.
They think that Le Pen/Macron is the same thing.
They think that Shorten/Turnbull is the same thing.
They really do.
Sanders, Melanchon, Corbyn and Di Natale are on the same page here.
Dangerous, deluded, destructive dolts.
Good opinion piece on anger, an Australian value.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/27/australians-are-among-the-luckiest-people-on-earth-what-are-we-so-angry-about
a r @ #113 Thursday, April 27, 2017 at 12:25 pm
Morrison is spruiking trickle down economics yet again.
a r
#113 Thursday, April 27, 2017 at 12:25 pm
Razz works OK for me using either lower or upper case “P”
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Scotty going on about other countries set company tax rates as if that’s all there is to compare.
‘Effective’ tax rates???
kayjay @ #142 Thursday, April 27, 2017 at 1:10 pm
BK
Here’s a man who never learns. He just quotes from his backers, I think.
Rachel Maddow Delivers An Epic Takedown Of Trump’s ‘Ridiculous’ Tax Reform Plan
“If your plan for comprehensively overhauling that tax code is one page, double-spaced, with deep indents and almost no numbers, that’s a lot of things, but that’s not a tax plan.”
Donald Trump is so desperate to point to some evidence that his first 100 days weren’t a total failure that he released a phony tax proposal on Wednesday – a one-page document he called a plan.
He was hoping his flimsy, one-page piece of paper would be enough to convince the American people that his first three months in office haven’t been a total flop, but Rachel Maddow wasn’t having it.
Instead, she exposed to plan for what it is – a complete sham
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/04/26/rachel-maddow-delivers-epic-takedown-trumps-ridiculous-tax-reform-plan.html
I’m not sure that ‘Australians’ are angry. Yeah, a few people get p*ssed off and abusive. That’s not a new phenomenon.
When my sister was married, twenty nine years ago, a drunk guest threatened to bash me (I was a bridesmaid). A friend of mine, a few years earlier, was assaulted in his bed by a couple of drunks he’d dissed from the window. So weird misdirected anger isn’t something new.
I did a quick google of ‘road rage’ for example, and immediately came up with examples from New Zealand and London.
The term originated, of course, in the US. It isn’t just an Australian concept, as the writer seems to imply.
I’m getting a little tired of random anecdotes being plucked out of the air to prove something (racism, sexism, etc etc) about ‘Australians’.
Of course, the counter point of that is universal virtues being described as “Australian” when they’re simply “human”.
SOME Australians ARE racist, sexist, prone to irrational outbursts of rage, exceptionally courageous, generous, etc etc – and SOME Australians always have exhibited these faults and virtues. I would go so far as to say that SOME Australians always will – and that the same can be said for SOME British, SOME Americans, SOME Turkish, SOME Greeks…etc etc etc.
Tudge “is not aware”.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/aliceworkman/debt-recovery-triggered-dv?utm_term=.steOLDpRK#.nxA2ZkNlK
Lizzie
And not just on this specifically.