Courtesy of The Australian, the final Newspoll of the year is something of a non-event, with two-party preferred unchanged at 53-47, primary votes unchanged at 36% for the Coalition, 37% for Labor and 10% for the Greens, and the only move being a one point drop for One Nation to 7%. Malcolm Turnbull’s personal ratings are also unmoved, at 32% approval and 57% disapproval, while his lead as preferred prime minister shifts from 39-33 to 41-34. Bill Shorten is down one on approval to 32%, and up two on disapproval to 56%. The poll was conducted Thursday to Sunday from a sample of 1669.
“Stockholm syndrome” – yes one or two of the journos are affected by it, but the rest are right-wing/conservatives by desire. You don’t get a job in the Australian media unless you fit the profile set out by those that control the country. Real journalists are nowhere near the MSM. Only hacks need apply!
Steve777 @ #689 Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 – 9:55 am
It will be revealed on the ABC to be a masterstroke, heralding the renaissance of Trumble, and no doubt Lydenberg will be interviewed in breathless and adoring tones.
MYEFO’s under the Coalition will always be better than MYEFO’s under Labor.
C@tmomma @ #696 Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 – 10:14 am
Thinking exactly the same thing. The avoidance of an air of crisis surrounding this government is in stark contrast to the reaction if Labor were involved.
Jenauthor,
Job insecurity has a lot to do with journalist’s unwillingness to challenge the Turnbull government. Remember the story a little while ago that Bolt told about Turnbull ringing his bosses to demand they sack Bolt for his continued unfavourable commentary about Turnbull? A mongrel. And I guess that’s why the media feel free to attack Labor. They are not mongrels to them and the media’s jobs don’t depend on Labor.
Yet.
The only reason we still subscribe to the SMH is the crosswords, which we have as our daily fix.
Does anyone know if the online version of the Canberra Times has this?
Have searched but have been unable to find it.
Am so disgusted by the lack of fair reporting by Fairfax that I really want to stop supporting them.
SOmeone asked about membership of MEAA … I don’t know about now, but until a couple of years ago you couldn’t get a journalistic job at either NewsCorp or Fairfax unless you were a paid-up member.
I don’t know about the ‘opinion columnist’ non-journalists who are now so dominant in these companies … they might escape the need but no actual journalist with a grading would get a job without being a member.
Quasar says:
Tuesday, December 19, 2017 at 10:25 am
The only reason we still subscribe to the SMH is the crosswords, which we have as our daily fix.
Does anyone know if the online version of the Canberra Times has this?
Have searched but have been unable to find it.
I get my crossword fix from the Guardian. Their crosswords go back several years.
I get ‘Rufus’ for preference, but ‘Pan’ is ok too. Most of the others in the Guardian are too hard for me. I take a screen shot and print that out. Their ‘print’ function doesn’t work for me.
As for DA in Friday’s SMH, if I get three words out I am doing well. I once got one of his out completely, I should have framed it.
Wayfarer @ #664 Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 – 8:25 am
I agree.
Fiona Patten seems to be quite ALP friendly even to the point of having attended ALP functions before entering parliament. That is where I met her a couple of times. Smart lady.
Unlike our little Green ‘friends’, I have never heard of her bagging the ALP, despite occasional policy differences.
Interesting article in New Scientist this week titled: effortless thinking thoughtlessly thoughtless.
Basically it issaying being conservative takes less effort thinking-wise than be progressive. One piece of research showed that the drunker you are the more right you tended to lean as higher order thought processes are not utilised.
It goes on to say the core values of a conservative: Acceptance of personal responsibility, acceptance of hierarchy, preference for status quo are hard wired into us and to change this takes critical thinking, which is an effort.
No wonder the LNP wants to nobble universities and are anti-science, they know it will strengthen their cause.
davidwh,
Because MYEFOs under the Coalition will always get a sympathetic media response and they will contain dodgy heroic assumptions, such as wages growth of >3%! In order to make their dodgy figures look good.
Then they try and con us by stating their wage growth assumptions are correct… but only if the parliament passes their Corporate Tax Cut! When they said the same thing about Penalty Rate cuts and all that happened was that business owners have trousered the difference.
Ctar1
I’m not sure pipettes are commonly used in those labs 🙂
Can’t think I what I might have searched on recently to make them think I need one but maybe my 91 yr old mum has a secret hobby.
guytaur @ #680 Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 – 9:43 am
Gosh, you have to read this report quite closely to see that our emissions have been rising since 2015, and are expected to continue to do so. It is in there, but obscured by never referring to actual emissions, but only to “projected” emissions.
Get that? Our projected emissions are falling. Our actual emissions are rising, sure – but that’s not important apparently. I’m sure the coral on the Great Barrier Reef will be greatly relieved.
The rest of the report is largely an advertorial for the government.
Oh, and electric vehicles are predicted to make up 15% of new vehicle sales by 2030. Those who predicted 100% of the whole fleet would be electric in that time frame will no doubt be a little disappointed to hear that.
Oh, and buried away at the end of the report is what seems to be a real kick in the teeth – the government plans to change the rules to make it easier for electricity generators to increase their total emissions. It’s a bit obscure, but the rule changes seem to imply that if a generator expands their generation capacity by implementing renewables, they will also be allowed to increase the emissions of their total generation fleet proportionally. In other words, they can emit more C02 from any creaky old fossil-fueled generators they have left. Pretty sneaky, eh? But I don’t really know why they bother being so sneaky – they simultaneously plan to save money by removing any actual auditing of compliance with the rules anyway!
Welcome to Australia’s new endless summer!
Don,
As a DA fan, did you used to watch ‘Letters and Numbers’ as well?
Chuckle.
Sohar @ #700 Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 – 10:19 am
The MSM, certainly where politics is involved, is little more than a protection racket for the conservatives.
@P1 – got a page number for “Oh, and buried away at the end of the report”?
Thanks
OK, we’ve had the by-elections in two pretty-safe Coalparty seats. Now what can we do to trigger off some by-elections in their marginals? Capricornia, Forde and Gilmore all under 1%. Flynn, Robertson, Chisholm, Dunkley, Banks and LaTrobe all under 1.5%, and Dickson (the Potato) and Petrie only just over that. PLEASE, everyone, dig for some s 44 dirt about any of the incumbents! Or s 45 – don’t forget the couple of extra paras in there. We need some by-elections where the Coalists are vulnerable! Otherwise the Turnblimp can keep floating around till maybe May 2019. Urghhh!
Voice Endeavour @ #716 Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 – 10:43 am
Section 3.3
Pipette? That’s something I remember from chemistry class, a bit like an eye dropper if I recall. You added liquid one drop at a time to a solution and it turned from blue to red (or someting) as acidity crossed a threthold.
All I could ever get was brown gunk.
C@tmomma says:
Tuesday, December 19, 2017 at 10:40 am
Don,
As a DA fan, did you used to watch ‘Letters and Numbers’ as well?
I am certainly not a DA fan, and I don’t watch TV. I do watch insiders and Q&A occasionally on my computer via Iview.
I find TV very intrusive, and most people have the volume way too loud. My wife watches TV sometimes, using headphones which I am thankful for, but mostly watches DVDs. She’s working through the complete Charlie Chaplin movies at the moment, and loving it. She’s a movie buff.
I am getting a dvd player for my desktop for Christmas, so I can then go through her large library of DVDs.
Sorry to keep on posting on Barnaby, but he is such a complete disaster for the country.
victoria @ #683 Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 – 9:49 am
Thanks victoria.
Bw – Yep. Been to shops, A/C on now and blinds, windows etc set for the day.
You too, I’d think.
Saw someone I think you’d know on the TV a couple of days ago – Karl D, now at Managrida. You might have run across him here (finance area in your Dept.) or up there. He worked with/for me for a while.
KayJay @ #694 Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 – 10:05 am
Thanks KJ. And his very elderly mother (a d’Oyly Carte veteran) is still alive. Terrible.
Bw – Yep. Been to shops, A/C on now and blinds, windows etc set for the day.
You too, I’d think.
I was out at Burwood this morning and it was getting pretty steamy in Sydney’s outer inner west, but I’ve got a colleague working remotely from Wagga – he’s not a happy camper today.
With the count appearing to near completion the TPP swing in Bennelong is around 4.85%
LU – Yep, It’s going up quickly. Canberra 600 metres or so up so the sum is strong as well. The UV will be up there today.
ABC reports Nationals MP Darren Chester dumped from Cabinet and Joyce to take infrastructure.
kevjohnno
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That’d help the pension stretch a ‘bit’ further!
Steven @ #729 Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 – 11:15 am
Almost certainly correct, but I don’t think any of the leaks have been confirmed yet.
Itsa – Bummer on Rory O’D.
Bemused
Chester will be mightly annoyed. I wonder if he should go rogue. Although not a LNP supporter by any stretch, he was one of the better and more competent performers.
I wonder if the Nats will be given Water again.
Could be part of the reason Barnaby wants to move.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-19/chester-dumped-joyce-set-to-become-infrastructure-minister/9270222
Steven @ #733 Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 – 11:22 am
Agreed. He had come to my notice as one of the saner members of that lot.
Could he cross the floor on anything?
Chester out to allow for fellow Victorian and deputy leader McKenzie to come in.
Surely Cash will be booted ?
Yes, Bemused, it’s a report of what will supposedly happen when the Turnblimp makes the announcement. I suppose it’s all based on accurate leaks, but it’d be funny if people were just making stuff up.
Bemused
Anything to do with Gippsland might sway Chester to walk. He is pretty popular down that end of Victoria and many in Gippsland may see this as another kick in the teeth to their long suffering area.
Don’t know much about Bridget McKenzie’s credentials as deputy leader of the Nationals.
Rex Douglas @ #736 Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 – 7:26 am
Why Rex?
Chester and McKenzie are Nats, Cash is a Lib.
Where is the relevant connection?
Darren Chester was a Nat in favour of SSM. Retribution?
(Probably cause he was also a Victorian and Mackenzie got elevated)
Steven @ #738 Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 – 7:30 am
She likes guns!!!
Cash is definitely a liability to the LNP. One of their lesser stars and clearly out of her depth and not across her portfolio.
PhoenixRed
And this. What I believed from the get go.
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33m
Yep, we’re way past Rosenbergs, Weisband, Hiss here — this is uncharted treachery.
Rick Wilson
@TheRickWilson
This is no longer a question: Putin has executed the greatest intelligence coup of all history.
bemused @ #708 Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 – 10:31 am
Unlike the ALP, who are financially shackled to big unions and their dealings with big corp, the Reason Party have progressive policy freedom.
Barney in Go Dau @ #739 Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 – 11:30 am
no connection intended
relax Barney
This is getting incredibly dangerous.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/18/nuclear-weapons-trump-national-security-strategy
Steven @ #738 Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 – 11:30 am
Chester is in an area where farmers don’t want gas extraction on their land. Maybe he’s being punished for that…?
Ides of March @ #740 Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 – 11:31 am
I think you are on the right track there.
I think Mackenzie got the deputy leadership as they wanted to replace a woman with another woman. She would also dramatically lower the average age of their leadership team. Hasn’t struck me as particularly bright but in that lot you don’t need to be.
McKenzie is pro-guns too, sadly.