The latest monthly ReachTEL result for Sky News records Labor’s two-party lead at 52-48, down from 54-46 a month ago. The Coalition are up two on the primary vote to 36%, Labor is down one to 35%, the Greens are steady on 10% and One Nation are down one to 6%. On the forced response preferred prime minister question, Malcolm Turnbull now leads 54.5-45.5, out from 52.3-47.7 last time.
Stay tuned for a post on the by-election that now looms in the seat of Perth, following Tim Hammond’s surprise retirement announcement.
Craft beer tax fixed.
BEST DECISION EVA!!!!!
guytaur @ #750 Friday, May 4th, 2018 – 3:18 pm
What’s that got to do with it?
bemused @ #749 Friday, May 4th, 2018 – 12:14 pm
I was just about to start typing when I saw guytaur’s post pop up.
My post was going to be;
But the privacy advocates have been having kittens over this for ever. 🙂
bemused says:
Friday, May 4, 2018 at 2:53 pm
…”Yes, I thought I was clearly sceptical in my remarks.
On the news it mentioned 3 states, so it must have been NSW, Vic and SA.
Who can conduct an independent investigation?”…
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You should have a look at the Guardian article on this.
The picture attached, seems to show this vital price if infrastructure has been fenced off with chook wire.
poroti,
What’s with you doing the captain sensible routine? It’s way out of character…
What do you know!?
Absence of Empathy @ #754 Friday, May 4th, 2018 – 3:23 pm
Found a Guardian article, but no such picture. Do you have a link?
Bemused
The opposition to take up of digitised health records has always been the privacy and accuracy of those records.
I thought that was what you were talking about.
Sorry if that was wrong.
Barney in Go Dau @ #753 Friday, May 4th, 2018 – 3:22 pm
Yeah, paper records are so secure.
And immune to being tampered with.
Bemused, a digital health system is a system design to ensure all Australians have healthy digits.
You know it makes sense.
bemused says:
Friday, May 4, 2018 at 2:59 pm
…”Bit the burnt area stops neatly at a fence line?”…
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The person living on the other side of the chook wire fence is KayJay??? And he mows his lawn down to bowling green height 3 times a week.
guytaur @ #757 Friday, May 4th, 2018 – 3:31 pm
I was having a go at all the hype that surrounds their adoption, but you have a point.
So what are the inherent properties that ensure the accuracy and security of paper records?
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4pp1r
Bemused
Just the lock and key on filing cabinets.
I am for digitised l health records because they can be encrypted and who accesses those records logged.
Lynchpin @ #759 Friday, May 4th, 2018 – 3:31 pm
I love the humour on this site. 😀
I have decades of experience in IT and there just seems to be an excess of hype, jargon, techno-babble and gibberish these days.
Prominent among it is ‘digital’. Suddenly everything is digital.
Well FMD, computers and data transmission has all been digital for over 70 years! And some twerps seem to think it arrived yesterday.
Absence of Empathy @ #760 Friday, May 4th, 2018 – 3:31 pm
More great PB humour. 😀
bemused says:
Friday, May 4, 2018 at 3:29 pm
…”Found a Guardian article, but no such picture. Do you have a link?”…
…
Don’t know how to do links on a tablet from an app, but the article title is:
“Triple zero emergency number fails after cable severed in NSW”.
The picture looks like it came from Twitter.
Edit: The picture is from Telstra’s Twitter account.
Nasty little tuber.
http://www.julianburnside.com.au/tsunami-of-homelessness-and-poverty-set-to-hit-on-june-4/
AMP hit back at the RC findings and they have a point.
This is true, just look at the way our Government responds to draft UN reports!
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-04/amp-rejects-royal-commission-findings-argues-asic-should-deal/9726802
Poroti
Meanwhile in NZ
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/04/jacinda-ardern-pledges-shelter-for-all-homeless-people-within-four-weeks
I see that that the two trick pony Di Natale, fresh from promising to send $5 trillion that does not exist, is back to his second old trick: attacking Shorten.
Sleaze bag.
Good on the Greens – the person to attack is the one who’s actually promising to do something. We’ll just ignore the fact that the government could do something about this tomorrow.
…and if the Greens’ argument is that they know the government won’t, they should be helping the guy who will get elected.
z
Spot on. Opportunist Tory Handbags.
Rex Douglas @ #769 Friday, May 4th, 2018 – 12:43 pm
Why is the increasing Newstart on the other side of the fence?
You could increase Newstart by a large amount and still leave recipients in poverty.
That’s one of the reasons you have a review instead of responding to a Greenfart! 🙂
Absence of Empathy @ #766 Friday, May 4th, 2018 – 3:38 pm
Thanks.
That was the one I looked at. Went back and now the picture is there. Must not have opened before.
Telstra’s twitter account was even more illuminating, particularly this comment:
j
Great link, although I did rather wish he would stop fiddling with his dials.
Good to see Rex focusing on where the real policy paralysis exists.
Ninny.
Rex Douglas says:
Friday, May 4, 2018 at 3:43 pm
..”Get off the fence, Bill. pic.twitter.com/KRtwx2XEoG— Richard Di Natale (@RichardDiNatale) May 4, 2018″…
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The Rex Douglas, Di Natale dynamic duo are Labor’s best weapon?
Bludger’s Corbyn fanbois need to stump up rather than flail away in their little quagmire.
They need to indicate how many seats Labour needed to gain in order to claim a great victory for Corbyn.
At the moment they are ecstatic about peanuts so I imagine the threshold will be low.
Lightning strike map
So Murray, with his Liberal Party affiliations, to the Chair of AMP
This is the former CEO of the CBA who presided over the “grow the book regardless” regime replicated at other banks – and was remunerated accordingly
The matters self reported by Financial Services providers including banks did not “just appear”
The culture has been in place since deregulation and not addressed – so implicating Murray and the term of his watch
And I repeat – we are only seeing self reporting NOT public submissions including public submissions which identify practices excluded and deliberately excluded from the Terms of Reference by the 4 Banks and their government
What the Murray appointment confirms is the paucity of those being appointed to Boards and that appointments are an old boy’s Network who do not bring credibility to the position or the Company
Dartmoor: a grand old-growth forest totally destroyed by humans.
What was the context for this?
Boerwar @ #776 Friday, May 4th, 2018 – 3:49 pm
Who is ‘j’? What is the link? What was it about?
Boerwar says:
Friday, May 4, 2018 at 3:58 pm
…”Dartmoor: a grand old-growth forest totally destroyed by humans”…
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Corbyn?
Stupendous yuuuuge best ever achievement by Corbyn!!!!!
UK Labour wins an extra 24 seats out of 4371 seats!!!!!!
That is not FAKE news!
Absence of Empathy @ #785 Friday, May 4th, 2018 – 4:02 pm
Yeah, take that axe off him!
So Murray, with his Liberal Party affiliations, to the Chair of AMP
New broom, same as the old broom.
AoE
No. (Apparently the english do not regard Corbyn as moorish).
All english moors were grand old growth forests before they were destroyed by humans.
Just to add on AMP, the Adninistration have every right to respond to the Board deferring from positions identified in an independent report on practices
It is the weight of any such presentation by Adninistration that is considered
Simply, no one is always correct just as no one is always wrong
So any Independent Review is not the be all and end all – it is a start point
In regards Murray, what appointments has he obtained since retiring as CEO of CBA?
There comes a time when you need a fresh set of eyes – because we all have a use by date
Observer @ #790 Friday, May 4th, 2018 – 4:06 pm
Some worker elected board representatives might go a long way to fixing things or at least lead to exposure.
Boerwar @ #779 Friday, May 4th, 2018 – 3:51 pm
Start with the number of seats that the Cons gain. Labour gaining anything north of 65% of that value is an acceptable performance. Not “great victory”, but certainly not the sort of abject failure some people are asserting.
At 65% of the Cons performance, Labour will be pretty much on a level pegging with them after factoring in their larger initial base (which is where the 65% comes from). It’s harder to gain seats when you already control most of them.
And current numbers are Lab +24, Con+7 (Left+72, Right-84). Which puts Labor at +240% of the Cons. Which is certainly more than adequate.
ar
What on earth are you talking about? Labour gained just 24 out of seats out of 4371 seats and you manage to turn that into a 34% victory for Corbyn!
Back to the psepho sum factory for you, IMO.
The incestuous pool of ‘talent’ among those born to rule:
There was a puff piece about Murray on 7.30 last night.
Seems he had a daughter with an eating disorder and now chairs a charity.
Poor chap almost shed a tear. 😥
I used to love Mike Carlton referring to him as the “Head Teller at CBA”.
Dartmoor: a grand old-growth forest totally destroyed by humans.
To be fair, that description fits most of Europe.
citizen @ #795 Friday, May 4th, 2018 – 4:14 pm
The social links for those board appointments are forged mainly at Private Schools.
That is the reason certain parents are so keen to see their offspring attend such schools, nothing to do with education.
I see lots of interviews of company CEOs and Board Chairmen and most are quite banal.
Presumably those “independent” directors that the LNP and the banks want to impose on Industry Super Funds would come from the same born to rule types who infest company boards.
Fortunately the revelations at the RC suggest that it’s less likely this will happen.