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.
Newspoll: 53-47 to Labor
Relief for Malcolm Turnbull from Bennelong, but none from Newspoll, which records yet another stable result.
Rex Douglas @ #744 Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 – 11:35 am
Stop the presses! Rex has discovered that the ALP is connected to the union movement which started it.
What a sleuth!
bemused @ #750 Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 – 11:49 am
Big unions cosying up to big corp has compromised the ALP. That as well as the neo-lib infiltration has seen the party lose it’s way.
You’re an old labor man in denial, bemused.
Of course the IPA gave birth to the “Liberal” party in the same way as the unions gave birth to the ALP. And whose interests do the IPA serve? Everyday Australians? Workers? Employees? The elderly, disabled or sick? They are the union for the owners and managers of Big Money.
victoria says: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 at 11:34 am
PhoenixRed
And this. What I believed from the get go.
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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.
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Older Article – but still true even more so today :
Putin’s Puppet
If the Russian president could design a candidate to undermine American interests—and advance his own—he’d look a lot like Donald Trump. Vladimir Putin has a plan for destroying the West—and that plan looks a lot like Donald Trump
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/07/vladimir_putin_has_a_plan_for_destroying_the_west_and_it_looks_a_lot_like.html?wpsrc=sh_all_tab_tw_top
Dan Andrews on ABC radio praising Darren Chester.
https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/preselection-for-hasluck-splits-labor-ng-b88694389z
WA Labor last night pre-selected Lauren Palmer as its candidate for Hasluck.
Rex Douglas @ #750 Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 – 11:46 am
Guns and Perks.
Rex Douglas @ #751 Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 – 11:56 am
You wouldn’t have a clue Rex.
Labor is the only party which has been in for the long haul to advance the interests of ordinary Australians.
Warts and all, it beats the hell out of all the dilettante parties that have come and gone or are going, like your Greens.
Rubbing it in that Turnbull’s judgement poor? 😆
PhoenixRed
The slate article covers much of what is at play.
lizzie @ #758 Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 – 12:08 pm
I think he quite genuinely respected Chester as someone it was possible to deal with on a professional basis. I recall him expressing such sentiments in the past.
bemused @ #757 Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 – 12:08 pm
old habits die hard for you bemused ?
have the courage to accept the ALP has changed… for the worse
Rex Douglas @ #761 Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 – 12:25 pm
WOW!
The world is continually changing, if you hadn’t noticed, and the ALP adapts.
The issues of today are not those of the 1970s.
Darren Chester ‘boned’ by Baarnyard. Apparently not the first to suffer this fate.
bemused @ #762 Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 – 12:32 pm
Even your treasonous deranged hero recognised the influence of big union factions on the ALP.
Rex Douglas @ #764 Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 – 12:42 pm
Your demented ravings mark you as seriously deranged.
bemused @ #765 Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 – 12:45 pm
Projecting again I see Rex.
bemused @ #767 Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 – 12:57 pm
no, just observing
Tesla big battery outsmarts lumbering coal units after Loy Yang trips
http://reneweconomy.com.au/tesla-big-battery-outsmarts-lumbering-coal-units-after-loy-yang-trips-70003/
Projecting, observing, whatever. Back later.
@Steve777
Escaping again, I see.
Rex Douglas @ #768 Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 – 12:59 pm
Are you experiencing visual or auditory hallucinations or both?
Trog, you are so cruel.
P1 will be in tears. Not a single cubic metre of gas was burnt!
ItzaDream
But, as DTT would argue, things would be much more dangerous if the hawkish Clinton was president.
So the government is projected to completely fail to reduce emissions to the target they set, I am yet to see any reporting about it in MSM.
I guess it will mostly get reported as an obscure news item, will anybody question the Liberals about this failure?
But of course going on about Sam Dastyari for a week is much more important of course!
I haven’t read it yet.
Rex is trolling on behalf of the G/LNP axis again.
lizzie says:
Tuesday, December 19, 2017 at 1:24 pm
I haven’t read it yet.
Katharine MurphyVerified account @murpharoo · 2h2 hours ago
God that climate review is a complete shocker #auspol
Yet another failure for which we can thank G/LNP collaboration.
Nicko
Someone’s awake.
[Katharine MurphyVerified account @murpharoo · 1h1 hour ago
Emissions are rising, taxpayers are shelling out for abatement & will continue to do so, let’s screw the safeguards mechanism, but everything is fine. Paris. All good. If you believe this, I’ve got a bridge I’d like to sell you #auspol]
Just goes to show how disconnected the CPG is from reality. Nothing of any significance in the real world has changed, but Turnbull and this government are looking up!
bemused @ #772 Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 – 1:20 pm
The pattern continues… you can’t engage in debate so you resort to personal attacks. Classic bemused.
bemused
Here’s another for P1. Audrey Zibelman knocks the NEG into a cocked hat.
AEMO plans for future (clean) grid, with no mention of base-load
“no mention of base-load”. Oh, the humanity!
http://reneweconomy.com.au/aemo-plans-future-clean-grid-no-mention-base-load-71052/
Nicko @ #775 Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 – 1:23 pm
The past few days has been awful from the CPG.
If this is Frydenberg’s work, he should be forced to work down a coalmine.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/dec/19/coalitions-climate-policy-review-reveals-it-will-loosen-pollution-safeguard
‘He is living in his own world’: Trump ‘confident, even arrogant’ as Mueller encircles top aides
Donald Tump is “living in his own world” and refusing to take special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation seriously, the Washington Post reports.
One adviser described Trump as “confident, even arrogant” in his belief that Mueller’s probe will draw to a close soon.
But for all of Trump’s self-assuredness, people familiar with the investigation told the Washington Post the special counsel’s investigation is likely to carry on for at least another year.
CNN on Monday reported Trump predicts a “letter” of exoneration from Mueller, noting allies fear a “meltdown” if he doesn’t receive it.
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/he-is-living-in-his-own-world-trump-confident-even-arrogant-as-mueller-encircles-top-aides/
Trog Sorrenson @ #769 Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 – 1:09 pm
Oh, for goodness sake. Your articles just keep getting sillier, Trog. Shorn of the breathless hyperbole, what this article says is that the Telsa battery did precisely what it was designed, built and contracted to do.
The past decade has been awful from the CPG.
PhoenixRed
Another year?! The damage may be irreversible by then. This needs to be seriously sorted soon!
William??????
Is there any chance you can provide a separate thread for the energy debate?
Trog – when I looked on the Renew Economy graph showing power generation a couple of days ago the Hornsdale battery showed up as 100 MW of power supply. A few minutes later and no sign of it. Must have looked at one of its on times. What sort of payments will be made for such input?
jena
Not got the ‘energy’ to scroll?
Trump team’s meeting with Mueller’s office could ratchet up tensions
When White House lawyers meet with special counsel Robert S. Mueller’s office late this week, the president’s attorneys are seeking assurance that he will be cleared. But people with knowledge of the investigation said it could last at least another year.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-teams-meeting-with-muellers-office-poised-to-ratchet-up-tensions/2017/12/18/15dac668-e41d-11e7-a65d-1ac0fd7f097e_story.html?utm_term=.79df06315568
Jolyon
No I do not argue Hillary worse, just that they are now equal. Both are the tools of the US military establishment.
The only difference it seems to me is that Trump blunders in and states the obvious whereas Hillary would have had an identical policy but would have obfuscated.
We are living in very dangerous times. I do not believe Trump is in control of anything except his butler.
Wakefield
It’s coming on frequently. I think the payments, as part of the contract, are not publicly available. e.g. This support for an outage in NSW may or may not be part of the contract, but it certainly provided a service, for which Malky should be very grateful.
jeanauthor
I’ll go away now. Have work to do.
Rex continues to destroy the world with BS.
victoria says: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 at 1:34 pm
PhoenixRed
Another year?! The damage may be irreversible by then. This needs to be seriously sorted soon!
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Would be good if Mueller gave Trump his Xmas present – a lump of coal and an indictment ( gift wrapped of course )
Meanwhile :
John SchindlerVerified account @20committee
Some media outlets are under FBI/IC investigation for poss ties to Kremlin pals. It’s not just Fox.
I think I’ve already said too much.
**The past decade has been awful from the CPG.**
many would argue they write about things that people want to read about – what sells.
Nothing to do with the fact that pathetic political punditry is much easier to write than fearless and impartial policy appraisal.