Courtesy of The Guardian, this week’s Essential Research poll has Labor’s two-party lead bouncing back to 54-46, after two weeks at 52-48. Primary votes will have to wait for later. The poll also has particularly interesting supplementary questions this week in relation to the National Broadband Network. Only 24% of respondents expressed support for the Coalition government’s fibre-to-the-node downgrade, compared with 43% who preferred Labor’s abandoned fibre-to-the-premises plan. The network’s failures are attributed to the government by 39%, compared with only 19% for Labor. Fifty-four per cent rated that the NBN would “fail to adequately meet Australia’s future internet requirements”, with 23% saying otherwise. However, 52% thought the NBN had improved their service (presumably where applicable), compared with only 17% who thought it worse and 28% about the same.
Essential Research: 54-46 to Labor
Labor bounces back in the Essential poll after a brief lull, as respondents mark the government down on the National Broadband Network.
A bit of discord in the X team:
A predictable ‘Phase 2’ –
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-01/russian-facebook-posts-sowed-division/9107682
Glad they’re stopping climbing Uluru.
Respect for our first Australians has always been sadly lacking … this, at least, is one step closer to some respect.
Barney
That is all fine if we have world enough and time.
I’d be interested in knowing how the HC does regard the time element, given that you might only have a week’s notice of an election.
The trouble with subjectivity is that it works both ways – how do you judge is a country is simply stuffing you around? (The classic, “You should have used Form 1C …but the staff member I talked to said to use Form 1B!”)
I like it also because it kicks back against the belief that every patch of rock and dirt and water on this planet is there for humans to tread on, ride on, shoot things from, plant on, dig minerals up from, cut trees down and pave a road over.
Agree Simon!
I like Shorten’s letter to Turnbull re: The Voice to Parliament rejection
I suppose I can understand (to some extent) Republicans standing by Trump no matter what he says or does, or how objectively badly he performs his office, but only up to a point.
I’m a “yellow dog” Labor supporter. That means that if Labor literally endorsed a yellow dog, say a Golden Retriever, as its candidate for North Sydney, I would vote for him or her, or at least vote for a Green or other left/centre-left candidate and preference said dog above the Liberal candidate. The Coalition want to tear down the country I grew up in and replace it with some sort of neoliberal / crony-capitalist nightmare. Even if Bill Shorten was as bad a human being as Coalition propaganda (or even Rex) would have it, I would still vote for the yellow dog. It wouldn’t matter how competent the Coalition were or Labor were, I want none of the Coalition’s program so competence is irrelevant. As it is, they have never had that saving grace since they regained Federal office, while Labor, not perfect by any means, does.
The only circumstance in which I would vote Liberal would be if we faced the sort of choice faced by the French in their election earlier this year.
I suppose that Trump supporters and even mainstream Republicans feel the same about way about Democrats, and about people they call ‘liberals’ (whom many also call ‘communists’, ‘Godless heathens’, etc).
One apparent difference between myself and many (but not all) Trump supporters is that I would know my candidate was a dog.
[zoomster
Barney
That is all fine if we have world enough and time.
I’d be interested in knowing how the HC does regard the time element, given that you might only have a week’s notice of an election.
The trouble with subjectivity is that it works both ways – how do you judge is a country is simply stuffing you around? (The classic, “You should have used Form 1C …but the staff member I talked to said to use Form 1B!”)]
Unfortunately in that case you’re not eligible to stand.
I think the Roberts case highlights this.
His ineffective early attempts were not saved by his last minute panic attempt.
Your one week example basically equates to Roberts last minute panic atempt.
Interesting development. Jay Weatherill thinking of returning the 1975 favour. Seeking legal advice regarding appointing replacement for Xenophon.
Really will be having interesting results if that happens
S777
Plenty of mongrel dogs in the Coalition. Spoiled for choice.
zoomster @ #953 Wednesday, November 1st, 2017 – 2:24 pm
If you could prove that you received incorrect instructions from the official authority on the matter, and that you followed them to the letter, that might save you (assuming, of course, that the other country is legitimately and officially stuffing you around, and that you haven’t merely been incompetent or lazy or rushed in obtaining correct advice).
I expect the HC to draw a line at clear, deliberate, and persistent attempts by foreign governments to sabotage renunciation attempts. Otherwise I don’t think the HC cares (nor should they).
Good of WA parliament to issue apology to LGBTI people. Good to hear Uluru climbing ban has happened.
There are still some things getting bettier.
Robert Mueller finds intensely personal way to put the screws to Donald Trump Opinion by Bill Palmer
Two days after Robert Mueller arrested a pair of Donald Trump’s campaign advisers and announced a guilty plea from a third campaign adviser, Mueller is embarking on a whole new way to screw with Trump – and this time it’s intensely personal. Maybe it’s just happenstance that Mueller’s next move is going to leave Trump squirming in a no-win situation, or maybe Mueller is just that much of a stone cold player. Either way, this is flat out sinister.
Mueller recently interviewed former White House senior advisers Sean Spicer and Reince Priebus about the meeting in which Donald Trump and his team plotted how to cover up the real reason for Donald Trump Jr’s Russia meeting. Trump couldn’t care less about Spicer and Priebus, and he probably thinks they’re too milquetoast to have done much damage to him anyway (for the record, he’s wrong about this). But now Mueller is just a few days away from interviewing Hope Hicks about her role in that same meeting. For Trump, this a real problem.
No one knows precisely what Hope Hicks does in Trump’s dysfunctional White House, where almost no one’s actual job duties line up with their official title. Hicks has held various job titles, but none of those jobs have involved interacting with the public. We do know this, however: according to widespread reporting, Hicks is Trump’s closest and most trusted adviser. Everyone has their pet theory on why, and it doesn’t really matter, except that he clearly considers her to be very important to him. No matter how she handles her testimony, he can’t win.
If Hope Hicks gives up Donald Trump on obstruction of justice to Robert Mueller, then Trump is screwed from a criminal standpoint. If Hicks is uncooperative during her testimony, she’ll be indicted for conspiracy to obstruct, and she’ll be arrested – leaving Trump without the adviser he likes and cares about the most. For Trump, this is an intensely personal no-win situation, and that fact surely isn’t lost on Mueller.
Time to join the UK tories and try your luck getting elected there:
Milquetoast?
citizen
Time to join the UK tories and try your luck getting elected there:
“BREAKING
Parry confirmed to be British
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How many MORE are there ????????? ……..audit the whole lot of them ….
Until there is an audit re citizenship, this parliament should be regarded as illegitimate.
AUDIT NOW !!
[citizen
Time to join the UK tories and try your luck getting elected there:
BREAKING
Parry confirmed to be British
3:43PMROSIE LEWIS, GREG BROWN
Senate president Stephen Parry has confirmation from the UK government he is a British citizen.]
Who does he give his resignation to? 🙂
A R
Milquetoast?
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milquetoast – noun – North American : Milquetoast; plural noun: Milquetoasts; noun: milquetoast; plural noun: milquetoasts
a person who is timid or submissive.
“a frail, milquetoast character”
milquetoast
A word originating from a comic strip character in the 1920’s named Casper Milquetoast. The word has come to define someone unassertive and timid.
[Rex Douglas
Until there is an audit re citizenship, this parliament should be regarded as illegitimate.
AUDIT NOW !!]
You’re definitely not left wing Rex, how is it illegitimate?
Plus this is too much fun!!!! 🙂
Steve777, I’m so rusted on I voted Labor in the 2011 NSW State election. No dogs, at least none that weren’t about to front ICAC.
That might suit Turnbull. An audit could check the authenticity Abbotts letter.
Another master stroke ?
http://www.afr.com/leadership/news-corp-has-halved-in-value-since-spin-off-20171031-gzbtbk
I think I just had a “service interruption”
Just saw Plibersek say we don’t need an audit because ‘all we have to do is just follow the rules’. Pathetic.
An Audit might force an election, so I’m not entirely against it.
Perhaps PB could pass the hat around for donations to Rupert. Every little bit helps.
SMH seem to have beaten the Guardian
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/senate-president-stephen-parry-to-resign-after-confirming-he-is-british-20171101-gzcjxc.html
Why on Earth would Labor want an audit on citizenship? They’re confident in their internal processes, so they should let the fun continue. Death by a thousand cuts doesn’t apply to them regardless of what Bananby says.
Question
An Audit might force an election, so I’m not entirely against it.
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Yes – good point Question – and perhaps a positive change of Govt !!!!
[Question
An Audit might force an election, so I’m not entirely against it.]
Remember any early election would be House of Reps only.
I doubt Labor would want a mid term Senate election, much better for them to have both together.
Barney in Go Dau @ #981 Wednesday, November 1st, 2017 – 4:11 pm
Good point BigD
Antony Green on 24 now
autocrat
Why on Earth would Labor want an audit on citizenship? They’re confident in their internal processes, so they should let the fun continue
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If so, then Labor have nothing to worry about – but it might flush out a whole heap of LNPs – and so goes Trumbles majority !
phoenixRED @ #980 Wednesday, November 1st, 2017 – 4:10 pm
We have a long list of things that need fixing, so perhaps a stuffed up Senate is worth it.
A selfish example is my internet is due to be stuffed up next Sept.
According to Green it’s so bloody messy we may as well have another election.
Yes. If Labor is confident then there’s no reason for then to not welcome an audit.
Apart from standard caveats around the mechanics of who conducts the audit. I could understand, say, if Labor did not want an audit that’s directly administered by the Coalition.
But an audit run by a mutually agreed third-party? I’d fully support something like that, and Labor should too (while simultaneously damning the government for wasting taxpayer funds on its waste-of-time independent audit while we’re in the midst of a budget crisis).
I wonder if the British High Commission correspondence reads:
(a) We are pleased to inform…;
(b) We regret to inform…
The ABC is milquetoast, but then I would say that.
Merde.
adrian @ #989 Wednesday, November 1st, 2017 – 4:20 pm
Yep, according to Green “It’s ridiculous” that Parry has to resign!
I wonder if the same attitude would have applied to Shorten, who has very similar circumstances, and is eligible.
It’s not hard.
Question
It looks like with no real notice they’ve doing mine at the mine at the moment. One of the hydraulic machines that puts the cable under cross streets appeared on Monday morning on one of the main entry roads and at least one new green box has appeared on the kerb.
I’d been hoping they wouldn’t get started in my suburb until after the next election and the chance to get at least fibre to the kerb might exist.
Alas, it appears that fibre to the node is what I’ll get.
Perhaps the correspondence reads “Dear Mr Parry (you will understand why it is no longer appropriate to address you as Senator Parry)”
Question @ #986 Wednesday, November 1st, 2017 – 4:19 pm
I realise that could be taken the wrong way. The election is my addition, Green didn’t say that.
PMTD
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trying to post. i have been locked out for three weeks
ptmd
CTar1 @ #992 Wednesday, November 1st, 2017 – 4:30 pm
Commiserations. The way it is going 5G could become a better option before I have to switch.
Question @ #995 Wednesday, November 1st, 2017 – 4:34 pm
Or even 4G 🙂
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I for one welcome another night of Antony Green on my tv getting flustered as his computer inevitably stutters