This week’s Newspoll result had added 0.3% to Labor’s two-party reading on the BludgerTrack poll aggregate, and added one seat to their national on the seat projection, the gain being in South Australia. The biggest change on the primary vote is an improvement for One Nation, who reversed a weakening trend over the past few months with the latest poll. Newspoll also recorded a weakening in Malcolm Turnbull’s personal ratings, but evidently the aggregate had this priced in already, as the trend results show little changed on last week. As always, full results on the sidebar.
BludgerTrack: 52.7-47.3 to Labor
Following Newspoll, the latest poll aggregate reading washes away the Coalition’s gains from the earlier polling since New Year.
117 minutes. My body is ready
Fess
I don’t think so in the minds of the party – he was never allocated a ministerial role while the member for Orange before coming to federal parliament.
I will be interested to see how his vote goes in Calare next time around because judging by Facebook he would, to use a phrase I heard ungraciously applied to Gough Whitlam in later life, attend at the opening of a door.
And this NY Times article also mentions her, but it was published at the time of our S44 by-elections.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/03/us/politics/trump-putin-russia-nra-campaign.html
Financial Review (@FinancialReview) Tweeted:
Monday seems so far away. @roweafr’s latest cartoon. For more: https://t.co/HKMCmyVkKm #auspol #BarnabyJoyce https://t.co/XaT8UclOyu https://twitter.com/FinancialReview/status/966836253348872192?ref_src=twcamp%5Eshare%7Ctwsrc%5Em5%7Ctwgr%5Eemail%7Ctwcon%5E7046%7Ctwterm%5E0
David Rowe nice and early
phil4change: If barney loses the top job #putoutyourteatowels
Shellbell:
I suppose one way of looking at is that your friend not being leadership material isn’t necessarily a slight on him, given the party he is a member of and his parliamentary colleagues.
Fess
What are the odds that a very young successful Russian woman in her own right, just happens to love guns and hitched her wagon to the GOP and the NRA.
Fess
And the real clincher is all those images of her with guns.
mumbletwits: Barn gonna go the full Tone – “no sniping .. etc”
Whether BJoyce just resigns leadership or goes to backbench. Labor need to pursue all the questionable expenditures and policy decisions under BJoyces watch.
guytaur @ #197 Friday, February 23rd, 2018 – 10:58 am
Neat! Hopefully the next thing to happen is that both women leave him and then the first woman takes the family home in the divorce and they both stick him with full legal custody of the kids (current and future). Then his self-inflicted humiliation will be complete.
If only it had happened to someone even more deserving, like Dutton, but that’s too much to ask.
Victoria @ #207 Friday, February 23rd, 2018 – 9:08 am
And a very young former Siberian furniture shop owner! Normally these are the kinds of successful migrant stories Republicans love to trumpet and pose along side of.
Speers on Sky says Joyce is going to resign this afternoon.
NetflixANZ: Guess who’s coming to Mardi Gras! pic.twitter.com/CFzFk2B0vL
https://twitter.com/netflixanz/status/966828701785575424
Peter of Marino @ #160 Friday, February 23rd, 2018 – 8:14 am
And we can move on to the next L/NP MP, nearly as senior as Mr Joyce, who has been spending some of this free time in a way that his wife would not approve of…
Once Barnaby goes Newscorp will redirect its efforts to double down on Labor and Shorten.
Fess
Exactly. Very fishy indeed.
annajhenderson: Nationals in confusion, unclear what is happening. Calling journalists to confirm whether their leader is staying or going #auspol
Well the question is whether he will merely resign from the leadership or from parliament.
Oh please, let the AFR report on the resignation be wrong. Could just be Gov MPs ratcheting up the pressure.
I’d much prefer Barnaby to keep on digging in, at least until the next Newspoll.
Vic
I assume its just the leadership. Going from parliament could see Labor referring LNP members to the High Court.
Plus other voting wins.
JohnCee
That would be hilarious
So who told the media? Couldn’t Barnaby keep stumm for another few hours?
Guytaur
Going to the backbench is not going to stop questions being asked about expenditure and other policy decisions etc.
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Barnaby’s personal leave so far:
– three print interviews
– two doorstops
– one presser
– one meeting with the PM
– two written public statements
– one branch meeting
Dirty Deeds Done With Sheep?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-4lk2-UA_I
My (very optimistic prediction).
Resigning as leader of the Nats? Yes.
Resigning from the Nats? Yes
Resigning from HoR? No.
So our Tones out and about commenting….again. 🙂
Reckons he “knows more about winning elections”….fine thats on the record.
Other thing that is on the record is that he knows nothing about policy and governance.
Simon Katich
Or with Pistol and Boo perhaps. 😀
Victoria
Yes. Rock hard place for Joyce. Why he has been hanging on so long to the leadership.
If Newscorpse continue after him when he is on the backbench then we will know Murdoch has decided Labor will win.
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PhRed @ #195 – yes, and Mueller has been very conscientious in sharing all the information he can with the state prosecutor. They would not have to start all over again from scratch but instead take up from where Mueller leaves off if he is sacked.
Guytaur
Obviously more than meets the eye with wanting BJoyce out of the picture.
Labor need to pursue it relentlessly
Victoria
Agree about what Labor needs to do.
If Joyce was Murdoch target watch Murdoch press attack Labor for continuing to raise questions.
Headlines like kicking a man when he is down and the like
Of course, if Barnaby leaves Parliament to work for Gina, we won’t get to know what she pays him because jobs from mates don’t need to be disclosed.
Barnyard going to backbench, he has 8 mouths to feed and his exit strategy, a fat paying job with a fat mining mogul has been diminished due to his toxic last few weeks.
I have been informed by a labor insider that if Barnaby stays or goes as the Nats leader, labor will put the blow torch on matters other than the money/ job matter for his girl friend in the next sitting week.
Governance and policy; schmolicy. Boring stuff only the chattering inner city left wing hand wringer latte sipper chardonnay swiller class softies care about.
“annajhenderson: Nationals in confusion, unclear what is happening. Calling journalists to confirm whether their leader is staying or going #auspol”
You sometimes wonder whether these MSM ‘reports’ are planted to try and convince waverers to vote a certain way.
With Sky News and the DT having a Murdoch connection, a bit of shady dealing here is not impossible.
Good question.
[Mark KennyVerified account @markgkenny · 24m24 minutes ago
What was it all for? @Barnaby_Joyce set to quit today after dragging the government into crisis during a fortnight from hell.]
Pissing away everyones superannuation on funding Trumps infrastructure plan is straight up insanity. The US economy is doomed. They won’t pay off their current debts for decades at best. Where is the logic in this completely idiotic plan? We shouldn’t foot the bill for a country that keeps giving tax cuts to the wealthy in the middle of a debt crisis.
latikambourke: “Carp” via @rachelclun pic.twitter.com/jTuLpvhQAh
I believe Fairfax
They did the tea towel articles.
Barnyard may still have a future squiring Big Gina, step aside Sophie.
Victoria, Guytaur – agree totally.
It would seem there are some really shady deals that could continue to haunt Barnaby for quite some time to come. Could not happen to a nicer fellow.
If the ALP set up a Federal ICAC/NIC then maybe the first referral could be Barnaby; tit-for-tat Michaelia Cash referral of the AWU to the Registered Organisations Commission.
Barnaby on one side of Gina and Sophie on the other.
I have two hens rearing chickens in a same sex relationship.
They sat on the same clutch of eggs, and now having hatched a grand total of 3 chicks are sharing the parenting.
Can’t say we weren’t warned.
Big Gina has her other pet, Matt Canavan, safely ensconced at the big table, so Barnyard is expendable.
I wonder whether a person can be convicted twice for the same conduct in the US – once in a Federal jurisdiction and then again in a State jurisdiction?
I doubt this would be possible in Australia. Do the rules of double jeopardy apply where a person has been pardoned?
So Trump wants teachers to be armed so what type of “concealed carry” (his own words!) weapon would he recommend they carry to overcome someone spraying highly lethal rounds from an AR-15 from 20 metres away? Idiot!!!!
If Barnaby resigns as leader, I suppose the agreement he signed with Mal could be torn up. But I doubt Mal has the courage.