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.
Do you want a root? Ok, sign these transfer papers.
Minister Dutton… Minister for Home Affairs ….. indefinite detention after suspicion … will be interesting
How bloody ironic that the exact thing that media ignored for months because it “wasn’t a public interest story” is the one thing in the evolving scandal that the PM has decided to try and put a stop to.
Baaarnaby should have stuck to one of these
What should be done with this bloke?
http://yournewswire.com/catholic-archbishop-pedophilia-god/
Can we have a ban on them breeding, please.
Coming soon to PH Canberra, leaping out of cupboards and from behind doorways shouting “Nobody ever expects The Bonk Squad”
Is the TurdBurgler covered by Malcolm’s SexBan ™
Who thinks that Barnaby Joyce should now resign from the nats leadership
@Rex Douglas
You really think that all the current LNP rabble in Canberra needs is a new leader to become a functional government?
Pray tell who you have in mind: The Corminator, Peter Dutton, Julie Bishop, Craig Laundy (pokies lover), Abbott, Scott Morrison, former refugee torturer and first Australian Federal Treasurer to believe in the prosperity gospel?
And if you do not have an answer for this, you are so busted as an LNP type being a concern troll on a blog where the rest of us are trying to have sensible conversations about complex and nuanced matters.
What parliament house needs now is a swag of chaplains!
“Wayne says:
Thursday, February 15, 2018 at 7:16 pm
Who thinks that Barnaby Joyce should now resign from the nats leadership”
Keep him there as long as possible. He and Malcolm are creating so much entertainment for the voters.
BK @ #2510 Thursday, February 15th, 2018 – 7:17 pm
I read that quickly as, ‘a shag of chaplains’ 😀
@Wayne
I admire your persistence, but you really need to use a spellchecker, or Google people’s names before posting, i you want anyone to take any notice of your posts. Unless o course you are looking for One Nation voters who have accidentally strayed to the website?
Get with the program Wayne.
3,2,1….
I thought Wayne said BJ was going to be the next PM!?! 😀
Look at the Member for Petrie, Luke Howarth, behind BJ:
Says it all, really.
First Reading, A Bill to Ban Sex between Ministers and their staff, and for related matters….
Will the DT be staking out Barnaby’s holiday accommodation next week?
BK @ #2408 Thursday, February 15th, 2018 – 5:54 pm
Well I have heard that a certain PM, whom I won’t name, is in the market for a pair…
Tom.
Douglas and Milko (Block)
Nothing much in particular.
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D & M, I increasingly suspect that Rupe has given up on Malcolm and wants him gone. That’s because Rupert only respects winners and he can see that Malcolm stuffed up the last election and has lost about 27 newspolls in a row. It doesn’t matter that Malcolm is still the best option for the Libs. Rupe is a plunger. He takes big risks. He’s not interested in helping the Libs save the furniture. He wamts a new horse to ride. No wonder Malcolm is looking so drawn.
Douglas and Milko @ #929 Thursday, February 15th, 2018 – 7:17 pm
wha ?
Who thinks that Barnaby Joyce should now resign from the nats leadership
Everyone who doesn’t want Bill Shorten to become PM.
I want the fucker to stay forever.
PvO is on 7.30 tonight.
Emma Husar gets it:
Emma Husar MP
@emmahusarmp
10h10 hours ago
When marriages break down @Barnaby_Joyce ppl move to shelters, with family or into a rental which they pay for. You earn $400k PA and lecture the rest of us on housing affordability while getting free rent. #integrity
BK
Lock him with a gang of rapists, tell them he secretly likes that sort of stuff and to go for it, and instruct Hart to sing ‘Nearer my God to Thee!’
NewsCorpse journo’s already referring to the Bonking ban as ‘Sharri’s Law’
Diogenes:
The whole thing is a cooling off period!
C@tmomma
The AR-15 can be used for hunting, but the most popular calibre probably wouldn’t be legal in some states in the USA for hunting large animals. However, that’s not because of the rifle, but rather the calibre which might be considered too small for hunting large game. Note also that military rifles, and their derivatives, tend to be less accurate than civilian hunting rifles.
I wouldn’t call an AR-15 the cousin of the M-16, I think brother would be more accurate.
The part about cavitation applies to the round, not the rifle. That round, probably in this case the 5.56x45mm (or .223) as it is the most common and also used in the M-16, is also available for hunting rifles. I believe there are also AR-15 derivatives (AR-10?) chambered for 7.62x51mm. These are a much bigger round and what Australia used in Vietnam. Personally I wouldn’t like to be shot by either.
The issue in America isn’t just the proliferation of these weapons. It’s also the fact that some seriously troubled individuals can even buy a firearm. I think a lot more people in the US are killed by handguns each year, although I guess that tends to be more your traditional criminal violence rather than mass shootings.
Regardless, American needs serious reform in its gun laws, it’s politics and its society.
Note, “running amok” appears to be the term used for these incidents by Malays and Indonesians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_amok.
Barnaby making good use of his gardening leave by setting up this website
@Don and all
You all have a good memory. I was on duty at a scientific facility in the general area when calls started coming in. There was the “green flash” accompanying the observed shooting star / fireball, so I quickly diagnosed it as a meteorite, one large enough to hit the Earth, albeit as a cricket ball sized object. The “green flash” occurs because the heat associated with the meteorite ionises oxygen molecules in the atmosphere, and when the electrons recombine, they give of light (photons) with a green colour.
The local ABC got on to it quickly, and rang us. At the time they thought that from various observer’s reports, it probably made Earthfall near Armidale. I then kind of forgot about it, and so it is really interesting to hear that it was actually a golf-ball sized object, that landed in a dam near Guyra, with enough kinetic energy to penetrate soft granite to a depth of 4 m.
I thought he was taking personal leave to try and put together an IKEA cot.
I suppose better late than never:
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/not-fit-to-lead-turnbull-has-punished-joyce-the-best-way-he-can-20180215-p4z0ge.html
By the way, how can the Right possibly attack Labor’s factions when the Government and its “leader” are hogtied by a top-secret coalition agreement. No matter how big a bunch of drongos the Nationals are, the Prime Minister can’t sack or replace them.
Would be nice to see Scullion show as much passion about his portfolio and Turnbulls response to the Uluru report as he showed for his disgraced mate in NE.
Thanks Don.
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@danilic
New signs already in place at Australian Parliament House:
“The whole thing is a cooling off period!”
They need to make cold showers in the ministers offices mandatory before and after work.
And perhaps bring back the chastity belt.
Mark Kenny, still hoping:
Geez, Kenny da ya think anyone remembers those better days? Time to give it away Mark if you think a couple of days without obvious fuckups are “better days”.
Latika’s take on Facebook:
Someone must be threatening to release a copy of the coalition agreement if any harm comes to Barnaby.
It must be so damning for Turnbull that he is desperate to stop it seeing the light of day. That’s the only thing that can explain how terrified he looks.
Dutton displaying his Prime Ministerial qualities
Are the coalition ministers such a mob of stupid and unruly sex monsters that they need Turnbull exercising strict discipline to keep them in line?
Yes?
@ajm
I think you are 100% correct on this. The terms of the agreement would really turn off the small L Liberal voters who still think that Turnbull is the guy in the Leather Jacket who appeared so regularly on Q& A. You can only follow your chosen candidate so far before you have to accept that they look like Tony Abbott, quack like Tony Abbott, and walk like Tony Abbott, and so must be a duck!
A bit like the Allies championing Stalin after Hitler invaded in 1941, in operation Barbarossa. Uncle Joe was suddenly someone who needed to be supported (although in fairness to Churchill, he knew exactly who Stalin was).
It was embarrassing for all to see the hidden clauses in the agreement between Hitler and Stalin signed in 1939, captured after the fall of the third reich. Stalin took a very imperialist land grab for Poland, the Baltic states and Finland in the agreement.
Hopefully the agreement that Turnbull signed is not quite that daring!
Does #bonkban also apply to ministers bonking other ministers? What about ministers bonking backbenchers?
If Malcolm’s new rules apply even to married couples (‘I don’t care whether they are married or single’ I think he said), does that mean a number of members will have to shuffle off their better half to another ministry?
Ajm
It may just be he has realised that his $1.7M investment has just tanked completely with absolutely NO HOPE of an upturn/windfall
As you say amazing, the press gallery never disappoints
despite glimpsing better days in 2018, has suffered another horror week – and that’s saying something give
That would be while the tennis was on.
Another fiction by the press gallery.
Now we have the secretive religious inquiry.
Well, after listening to PvO and Sharri Markson on 7.30 it appears we are back to ‘Brilliant Malcolm’ territory. The Bonk Ban was a masterful move apparently.