New results from Newspoll and Essential Research have failed to have any impact on BludgerTrack’s two-party preferred reading, but there’s one point worth noting on the primary vote, with the recent lift in One Nation’s poll ratings finally kicking into action on the trend measurement (more on that here if you’re a Crikey subscriber). Last week I noted signs that Labor’s surge in Western Australia was abating, with two seats flipping back to the Coalition on the seat projection, but this week they’ve flipped back again. However, this is counterbalanced by one gain apiece for the Coalition in New South Wales and Victoria. Newspoll and Essential both provide new numbers on personal ratings, which result in both leaders taking a uptick on net approval, and Malcolm Turnbull slightly improving on preferred prime minister.
Also of note:
• The Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters has published its third interim report from its inquiry into last year’s federal election, this time into modernisation of the Australian Electoral Commission. The report gives a sympathetic hearing to the AEC’s complaints that it has lacked the resources to keep pace with technological change, and is unduly straitjacketed by an overly prescriptive Electoral Act. Most significantly, it recommends trials be conducted of electronic counting of House of Representatives ballot papers, building upon the scheme introduced for the new Senate system last year, whereby manual data entry is supplemented by scanning and optical character recognition. The significance of apparent Russian efforts to hack into American electoral systems has been duly noted elsewhere.
• Antony Green has published his usual statistical review of the Western Australian election for the state parliament. This one is particularly interesting in that it features comprehensive data on preference flows for each minor party, which I don’t believe I’ve ever seen from a state election before.
I actually think that kind of piss take cartoon is unhelpful when you can simply reference the Real McCoy as evidence of how ridiculous these tests are.
Here’s a sample of eg questions the test uses. How many of these do you think your average born and bred Aussie could right – remembering you need to score 75% or better to pass. That’s where the value in exposing the limitations of such tests as some kind of measure of the worth of a potential citizen lie.
https://www.border.gov.au/Citizenship/Documents/practice-questions.pdf
a r @ #999 Monday, June 26, 2017 at 7:55 pm
Indeed. On the mac the relevant program is called Time Machine. It keeps hourly backups for twenty four hours, then daily, then weekly then monthly backups. No doubt windows has the same facility. One would hope so.
You can thus access what you had done yesterday when you realise you totally fucked up today, (what were you thinking?) and need to get back what you had yesterday. Or a couple of hours ago today, doesn’t matter.
The whole thing is as intuitive as buggery, easy as.
Then there is dropbox, which works extremely well. Set just a few folders to be backed up, and any time a change is made, dropbox loads it into the cloud. Free for the first two gigs, you’d be mad not to use it.
I use the paid version, because I have humungous files that must never disappear, ever, and are being updated on a daily basis.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-26/lee-rhiannon-facing-expulison-from-greens-party-room/8653468
Right on, Patricia!
A point I’d like to add to her comment, is that what Turnbull & Co. have done by allowing the ideologues on the FWA to decide to make people’s pay less for the first time via the Penalty Rate cut (and remember it has been stacked by the Coalition as long as they have had access to it, and even before when it was the IR Commission and Tony Abbott was IR Minister), is Turnbull has agreed to do something to the Workers of this nation that John Howard, even in his fevered WorkChoices days, would never have done. That is, openly agreed with and supported a PAY CUT for Australians.
Sure, he found fiddles that effectively equalled that but he was never so overt and public about advocating for it.
It just proves, yet again, that Turnbull has a tin ear for the politics. The electorate are not forgiving of this. It’s their lives he is messing with.
Someone started a joke on Twitter.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jun/26/glastonbury-barry-gibb-bee-gees-covers-twitter-joke
It’s on in the Greens!
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-26/lee-rhiannon-facing-expulison-from-greens-party-room/8653468
An excerpt of the politica poem revived for today
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/mask-anarchy-excerpt
lizzie @ #951 Monday, June 26, 2017 at 6:34 pm
A ride on mower is my weapon of choice. Could not do anything much without it. It is essential on my place, a little over three hectares about seven km outside of Armidale. I used to run sheep, did my own shearing and dressing of lambs for the freezer, but gave that away as more trouble than it is worth.
So now I have two hectares or so that I regularly mow. Looks great. I had a towbar put on it (Greenfields brand, would not have anything else) and it pulls an ordinary six by four trailer around the place, on which I throw fencing materials, prunings, firewood, whatever, and take them where they are needed.
But the major use is for mowing the grass. Inevitably cut grass clippings build up on the aluminium casting above the mower blades, and eventually interferes with the operation of things like the raising and lowering of the deck, high for the paddock, low for the lawn around the house, the ability to turn off the rotation of the blades and so on.
So before I take it to the mower place (we are very fortunate to have highly reliable and completely competent mower/chainsaw/whippersnipper/pump and irrigation equipment trades people in Armidale, northern NSW) as a bribe to Gavin who looks after my mower, I blow off all the accumulated crud of grass clippings or whatever before loading it on the trailer.
Gavin likes to have a clean machine to work with.
Gotta keep Gavin happy.
GG:
I just got to get a message to you. That Bee Gee articles is pretty funny.
Sprocket,
Steve Price DOES know what’s going on in the Liberal Party though, no matter how much we may dislike him.
IOM,
Barry’s doing a great job just “Staying Alive”!
ShowsOn
Showing your age!
Credlin has been commenting on Sky.
Saying the Liberal party is being run by men with soft so pause backbones
Sprocket / Anyone else
As well as a regular restart I’ve also been told to turn off your computer once a week and let it go cold (turn off going to bed) and then starting some hours later is good because it allows stuff to discharge completely.
True or false?
May has signed DUP deal.
No details available yet
CTar:
I’m a huge Seger fan too, even though I was born in the decade he and his band struck it big. But I’m not sure what the NBN has to do with Spotify. I get great streaming of Spotify on my phone.
Guytaur:
“The DUP-Tory deal is almost there. Just need to dot the i’s and cross out the lgbts”.
CT
http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/should-you-shutdown-your-pc-mac-iphone-ipad-at-night/
Don
“A ride on mower is my weapon of choice.”
.
And you have a very impressive weapon. 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ytIGT3y-I4
IOMs,
Sinn Fein will be cross as well.
GG
I think we can say thats the end of Stormont for now.
The Q&A video has hit the UK. They like.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/26/genius-video-shows-theresa-may-monty-pythons-holy-grail/
‘fess – Last time I can remember putting Segar on to play it was on a cassette player in a Hatchback Torana!
CTar1
Surely youse been an SLR 5000 kinda guy 🙂
Ta, Gt.
That one says yes, once a week or so.
Thank goodness Bob is still the same.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfoufXs01KU
Poroti – It was a White 5.0 lt SS.
Went like hell in a straight line, shame about the corners!
I was born the decade AFTER Seger amd the Silver Bullet Band started out and I still think he’s amazing. Absence from Spotify has irked me for ages
CTar:
Never had a Seger cassette, but have Night Moves downloaded on my phone. Can listen anywhere, even the car if I sync my phone with the car system. Love new technology.
CTar1
Oh the envy when one of our group bought ( or his parents) an SLR 5000. It was Phwaor!!!! to the max. Lovely burnt orange and black 🙂
He cried about the cost of keeping fuel in the tank though 🙂
No which is why I won’t be watching.
Ides (and others)
As per your request for an update on the Libspill III sweeps.
The only ones left standing are:
‘fess
No mobile phones or syncing 1978!
Dan:
You are a gentleman and a scholar
Poroti
And a problem was the tank only took about 12 gallons (55 litres, I think).
CTar1
Check out the aerials and phones !
“AT&T Archives: Advanced Mobile Phone Service (AMPS), a 1978 film on cell phones”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6X_1PcR_gs
You may have seen this program
“Tomorrow’s World: Mobile Phone 13 September 1979 – BBC”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vix6TMnj9vY
Wow amazing hypocrisy from Campbell Newman! Says Turnbull has lied to the Libs and needs to resign. Pot, kettle anyone? And where is this Get Turnbull media theme emerging from? Who do those propagating it believe will take over the PMship and guide the party out of the doldrums?
CTar:
Goes without saying that 70s vehicles don’t rock in the way 70s music does today.
Fess
He says that like it is a bad thing 😆
elaugaufein @ #865 Monday, June 26, 2017 at 1:54 pm
During 2016 federal election I was having a chat with an Amercian friend who is a lefty political tragic like me and I was explaining the double dissolution election. He asked me about it being used, and about how effective it was, and the best example I had was the 1974 DD. He wasn’t surprised that the Right continued to whinge about Whitlam and his achievments to this day, despite his death a couple of years ago.
Campbell managed to lose 42 seats at his last election.
I’m more of a Harry Nilsson fan myself. 🙂
https://youtu.be/_aw0n-WRqk8
Poroti:
Yeah, plus he says it like he didn’t do exactly that same thing with the Qld LNP!!
Poroti
Phone, naw … Wouldn’t have been able to hear it over the sucking whoosh noise of the Holley and the snarling and bark of the Hooker extractors.
I still had the handbook and service book for it, along with a Holley sticker, one from Edelbrock Manifolds and a Hooker Headers one. I didn’t stick them on the car so they were tucked in the red plastic ‘GMH’ folder that held the handbook and service book. One of my nephew’s friends bought a very run down LX Hatchbook about 15 yrs ago and spent oodles of money on it. I gave him the folder, made his year because they’re hard to find.)
C@
Me also.
Tested myself with the questions:
100%.
3, 15 and 19 I think would be tough for most of the people in Australia.
I think some people need to look at 6a being incorrect in some of the debates.
Ctar1 and poroti reminiscing about their Goggomobil!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk6pO7eLeiM
Poroti
Monday, June 26, 2017 at 8:38 pm
Don
“A ride on mower is my weapon of choice.”
.
And you have a very impressive weapon.
Once more with feeling:
Poroti
Monday, June 26, 2017 at 8:38 pm
Don
“A ride on mower is my weapon of choice.”
.
And you have a very impressive weapon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ytIGT3y-I4 —
I’ve often wished for more speed on my machine.
And the motor (four stroke Briggs and Stratton?) is pathetic compared to the lack of maintenance required on my 1998 Toyota Camry.
You are supposed to take it in for service every fifty hours. Imagine having to do that with an ordinary car!
fifty hours x 80 km/h equals a service every 4000 km. Ridiculous.
Mower engines have not come close to the long life and reliability of car engines. I’d love to be able to put a Toyota engine into my mower.
When I was a kid, you often saw broken down cars by the side of the road with the bonnet up, people standing around. Not any more. Cars don’t boil going up long hills now, either.
I suppose it’s faster than a gogomobile …