No change this week on Essential Research’s two-party preferred result, which shows Labor maintaining a two-party lead of 54-46, although as usual we’ll have to wait until later today for primary votes. The pollster’s monthly leadership ratings find Malcolm Turnbull with 39% approval (up one) and 42% disapproval (down three), while Bill Shorten is on 33% approval (also up one) and 46% disapproval (also down three), and Turnbull’s lead as preferred prime minister is 42-47, down from 42-25 last time. As related by The Guardian, the poll finds 72% supporting company tax cuts being made conditional on pay rises; more disagreeing than agreeing that company tax cuts would lead to higher wages without prompting; most disagreeing that penalty rate cuts would encourage companies to hire more workers. A series of questions on the proposed Adani coal mine found 48% saying it should be assessed on its economic and environmental merits, 22% saying coal mining in the Galilee basin should be banned, and 13% saying all mines should go ahead subject to environmental approvals.
UPDATE: Full report here.
It’s *hilarious* that Trumbull can’t sack the Beetroot, and that the Nationals (currently, anyway) don’t have the numbers to remove him; so they are stuck together, until one or both of them goes. Absolutely priceless. Popcorn shares keep going up.
paaptsef @ #2699 Thursday, February 15th, 2018 – 11:03 pm
I can’t wait to see him go, then I won’t constantly see my name in people’s posts! 🙂
Norwester says Friday, February 16, 2018 at 1:04 am
It doesn’t matter. We’re on a new page so no one will see it anyway.
Mr Newbie @ #2700 Thursday, February 15th, 2018 – 11:10 pm
Also how long can they invent excuses to prevent Barnaby acting as PM every time Turnbull goes OS. 🙂
I reckon Armidale is…
Sorry Don the whole of the New England place seems to be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q954LxEzyY8
Expect more juicy joycey revelations tomorrow. A decent poll of a seat like Page would be interesting now. I guess we’ll have to wait to see what Newspoll comes up with.
I heard on the grapevine that there was a vote in the Senate to increase the Newstart Pittance by $75 per week, Labor sided with the Government and voted it down, Is this true?
I’m a sucker for a good voice so I’m really enjoying the new ABC “We’re with you, for life” promo (by the way, the singer is Macaw).
But I’m trying to figure out who it is in the red dress drinking from the red cup at about the 10 second mark.
https://www.facebook.com/ABCTV/videos/10159819408140543/?hc_ref=ARQaP-OAYLZ_4X1dIPFuZOhCkfn_wPETQrurQahHpj4J6s9cNDgHO2kGm8L0T4mTo_Y
Meanwhile, in the UK:
Alex Spence Verified account @alexGspence
1h1 hour ago
Alex Spence Retweeted Alex Spence
Housing minister Dominic Raab belonged to a private Facebook group for 7 years that argues for council housing to be sold off at market value, healthcare to be privatised, and the return of workhouses for the poor — and says he wasn’t even aware of it
Justine Clark.
Hmm, never heard of her. Oh, she was in “It’s a Date.”
Hmm, never heard of her. Oh, she was in “It’s a Date.”
You have now. Thank fuck she’s not a Kardashian, I could have got chapter and verse.
How boring would that be?
Poll like.
New thread.
50 years since the Battle of Hue.
boomy1 says:
Friday, February 16, 2018 at 2:21 am
I reckon Armidale is…
Sorry Don the whole of the New England place seems to be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q954LxEzyY8
Good video, but they have the demographic wrong.
Those are tradies or similar, not how NE National Party voters like to portray themselves on the whole.
poroti @ #2598 Thursday, February 15th, 2018 – 9:36 pm
Is that a dragon ” rel=”nofollow”> on her shoulder?
@ajm
Thanks! We are now slated for FTTN between October and Dec this year. This is an upgrade from HFC in late 2019.
OH says, call me cynical but we are in a “value capture” zone, lots of development nearby. So, it looks like they have put a small segment of HFC through our Telstra kerb to house conduit, and some of our neighbours got genuine fibre.
Anyway, at lease with FTTN, there is some hope of an upgrade in future times, without the 5K cost currently on offer.
Surely, the only viable solution is pistols at dawn on a foggy morning beside Lake Burley Griffin. My only fear is that Malcy and Barney will be too pissed to aim straight.
I think that the fact that the Greens get about double the Nationals’ vote should be more widely known.
It is also moderately interesting (or something) that the National vote is less than that of One Nation.