Nothing doing from Newspoll this week, but The Guardian reports Essential Research is back to showing Labor with a two-party lead of 53-47, after four weeks at 52-48. A slip of the keyboard at The Guardian appears to have deprived us with a primary vote figure for Labor, which was at 36% last week, but we are told that the Coalition is down one to 38%, the Greens are up one to 11%, One Nation is steady on 7% and the Nick Xenophon Team is steady on 3%. The full report should be on the Essential Research website later today. (UPDATE: Full report here; Labor primary vote turned out to be unchanged on 36%.) Also featured:
• Forty-three per cent of respondents felt Tony Abbott should resign from parliament, compared with only 18% who wanted him in the ministry and 14% who felt he should remain on the back bench.
• Support for same sex marriage rated three points higher than when the question was last asked a month ago, at 63%, with opposition down a point to 25%. Fifty-nine per cent wanted the matter to be determined by a plebiscite compared with 29% who favoured it being determined by parliament, compared with 61% and 27% in the previous poll.
• On the question of housing affordability, 74% supported limitations on foreign buyers, 56% allowing to downsize their homes to contribute to their superannuation, 44% bans on interest-only loans for property investors, 44% allowing young buyers to access their superannuation, and 43% the removal of negative gearing. Sixty-six per cent consider housing unaffordable in their area for someone on an average income, versus 25% for affordable, and 73% believed it had become less affordable over the past few years.
Elsewhere:
• I had a paywalled article in Crikey yesterday on YouGov’s arrival on the local scene, and the state of the Australian polling industry in general.
• The Australia Institute has taken a stab at predicting the complexion of the Senate after the next election, based on polling trends. Its projection for a normal half-Senate election suggests nothing much would change.
• The Australian Electoral Commission has published information-packed research papers on the rate and demographics of voter turnout, informal voting, and the impact of the new Senate system with respect to above and below the line voting rates and the number of boxes filled out.
• Sarah Vogler of the Courier-Mail reports Queensland’s Liberal National Party have been conducting polling of the marginal inner Brisbane seat of Maiwar, created in the redistribution from abolished Indooroopilly and Mount Coot-tha, to gauge how badly they would be damaged in such areas by a preference deal with One Nation. No results are provided, but an unnamed LNP source calls the poll a “dumb move”, which has had the effect of “unnecessarily telegraphing the party’s intentions”.
Turnbull on Trump giving him a lift in Trumps armored car –
‘Old mutual friends’ from Turnbull’s involvement in advising on an ill-fated gold mining investment in Russia?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-08/turnbull-hitches-private-ride-in-trumps-armoured-vehicle/8690924
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I’d think the discussion towards settling a joint communique from the G20 leaders that includes climate change and world trade would not be to Trump’s taste.
CTar1
Sunday, July 9, 2017 at 12:11 am
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I’d think the discussion towards settling a joint communique from the G20 leaders that includes climate change and world trade would not be to Trump’s taste.
He’s away with the pixies…
Grimace most people are only going to use a small fraction of their EV’s battery capacity so its not as big a deal as you’d think. What’s going to be interesting is how the market for daytime charging (while at work) develops. A lot of good reasons for solar on shopping center and office roofs.
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Maybe his visit to Italy for discussion on the Paris Accord was a practice run?
If so he’ll leave telling the other G20 leaders he will let them know next week if he agrees to sign the communique or not …
New thread.