Two new polls this week, from Ipsos and Essential Research, have wrought next to no change in voting intention, outside of an improvement for the Greens. However, their state breakdowns have caused Labor to make a net gain of two, having picked up two in Queensland and Victoria, while dropping one in New South Wales. Both pollsters produced leadership ratings this week, but I would caution against reading anything into the changes in the leadership ratings trends, as I don’t make any effort to correct for Ipsos’s consistent peculiarity in producing unusually strong approval ratings for both leaders. In other words, both leaders are up this week not because their ratings have improved – indeed, the opposite happened, particularly for Bill Shorten – but simply because there was an Ipsos result. This is not an issue with the preferred prime minister trend, on which Malcolm Turnbull increased his lead.
The lady who asked the last question not happy about having her ingrained bias dismissed summarily by Sarah Hanson-Young.
Sukkar sukkarpunched AGAIN.
‘fess
He wouldn’t be alone on that!
SHY has been good in this debate re SSM.
Not sure its okay for an outwardly progressive site for people to be falling in love with Bret Stephens.
Sukkar bullying Penny Wong by demanding she let him finish saying his bigoted, misleading be.
C@T – more’s the pity
That’s bs.
Ides of March @ #1205 Monday, September 18th, 2017 – 10:27 pm
At least one on here contradicts themselves all the time.
IoM
Fernandez has turned into a very decent journalist.
Able to do in-depth stuff.
He’d be wasted in the Press Gallery.
B for Vendetta is back.
C@T – my previous comments directed to you was in regards to Tony Jones.
JD,
I guessed as much. : )
Ides:
Falling in love? How juvenile.
How about arguing against their views on their merits. I’m interested in the conservative viewpoint, and I say that meaning the actual conservative viewpoint, not the reactionary viewpoint.
You mentioned you are under 30 years. My advice to you is to not shut yourself off to intelligent views that contradict your own. I do not resile from that.
???
If Penny Wong and her partner want another child, I’m more than happy to make myself available for adoption.
‘fess,
Bemused’s first comment was about you. Surprise surprise. Not. So I called him B for Vendetta.
Brexit shambles
“The civil servant in charge of the Department for Exiting the European Union is to move to a new role in 10 Downing Street after just over a year in the job, throwing Theresa May’s Brexit plans into chaos.
Oliver Robbins is to take up a new “co-ordinating” role in Downing Street. Over the summer it was reported that he had had a series of disagreements with Brexit Secretary David Davis.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-oliver-robbins-quits-department-permanent-secretary-eu-talks-theresa-may-david-davis-boris-a7952756.html
C@t:
Yeesh bemused isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed if he’s still trying to ‘talk’ to me when he must know by now that I no longer see his comments.
Says more about him and his diminished intellectual capacities than it does about me. 🙂
Total loser.
Who is that energy policy jerkass on Q&A? “Let’s do hydraulic fracking because markets like it”. And not even bother to mention all the other things that are horridly wrong with fracking.
Fess
Dissapointed you would say as such.
Stephens is a classic Republican.
*A GW Bush supporter;
* ‘Sceptical’ on climate change (‘sceptical’ on climate change = prepared to ignore it);
* A supporter of Israel; etc.
And no doubt full on American exceptionalism and probably believes in trickle down …
A Yank RW’er.
C@tmomma @ #1217 Monday, September 18th, 2017 – 10:39 pm
I didn’t name anyone. But you did.
AR an american conservative, go figure
‘fess, he talks to us to ‘prove’ his superiority over you. Sad.
Does Brexit now become Brambles? The Brexit shambles. : )
AR
That link you gave me earlier has opened up a whole new world to me.
Not surprisingly, there seems to be at least one app that will assist in changing bands.
Requires rooting the ‘phone’ first though and doesn’t support all processors (yet).
You didn’t need to name anyone, bemused. We all know your obsession.
Okay then Bemused, who were you alluding to?
zoomster @ #1228 Monday, September 18th, 2017 – 10:47 pm
I was addressing Ides who was a bit confused.
C@tmomma @ #1229 Monday, September 18th, 2017 – 10:48 pm
Anyone on PB who is inconsistent and self contradictory.
Dont drag me into this bemused.
sprocket – Robbins was Principle Private Secretary to Blair and Brown.
I recall he fell out with Brown in a big way. And Brown not the only one he ended up at logger heads with. He had a history of doing just that.
Google deserves most of the credit for that link. Just be sure to heed the warnings and don’t brick your device.
C@t:
Yep totally sad. AR had to introduce the block feature of his plugins because commenters demanded it as a result of bemused and his behaviour.
Total whackjob.
‘At least one on here contradicts themselves all the time.’
Is about Ides of March.
Hmm.
No that isn’t quite true. On Real Time the other day he talked about AGW in terms of the sensible position is to take the risk seriously (he alluded to that on Qanda tonight too), and mitigate.
Any chance a Newspoll tonight?
Some serious speed dating on here this evening.
So no Newspoll this week then?
May as well hit the sack. Night all!
Ides of March @ #1232 Monday, September 18th, 2017 – 10:50 pm
No intention of doing so.
I offered a simple explanation of what you were seeing.
Take it or leave it. But now I have pointed it out, you will notice it is a frequent occurrence.
However ‘mitigate’ to Bret Stephens seemed to mean Fracking!
A R @ #1234 Monday, September 18th, 2017 – 10:51 pm
Yes, I will be very wary and make sure I have a complete understanding before doing anything.
Learnt some hard lessons many years ago.
‘fess
A Rupert thinker as well.
Stephens has got the full deck.
Woohoo, just got home and my Postal Survey Thingy in the mail box. Yee ha.
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Brett Stephens had a falling out with the that foreigner Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal, hence his recent move to the NYT.
I think before that he was editor of the Jerusalem Post.
He’s a definite RWer, just not the complete nutjob variety.
Night all.
‘…. you will notice it is a frequent occurrence.’
Of course, bemused could just stop and then it wouldn’t be.
C@t:
Or nuclear.
Either or is an environmental fail in this counrty.
Sukkar is a slimy individual. Knowingly lies about what caused the bad power outages in South Australia, long after such claims have been discredited.
If I can be spared from campaigning in my electorate I will be off to help Sukkar’s opponent.
What a creep.
Yeah Sukkar should stay off TV if he wants to help his side.
Got my vote Friday and posted today. Decided not to comment. Just a very clear tick on the YES.
zoomster @ #1246 Monday, September 18th, 2017 – 11:00 pm
Nothing to do with me other than I observe and occasionally comment.