I’d have thought Newspoll might have had the week off, but The Australian reports that the latest instalment has Labor maintaining its 51-49 lead, with the Coalition up a point on the primary vote to 39%, Labor steady on 36%, the Greens steady on 10% and One Nation steady on 7%. On personal ratings, Malcolm Turnbull is up one on approval to 42% and down one on disapproval to 48%, Bill Shoten is steady on 32% and up one to 57%, and Turnbull’s lead as preferred prime minister is unchanged at 48-29. The poll was conducted Thursday to Sunday from a sample of 1704.
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Wiser now??
I told you Mr Smooth, Matty Cormann, would not let his donors, like Twiggy and Gina, down. He was straight back on the stump for the Corporate largesse today, and ABC News Breakfast dutifully complied:
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/ministers-hold-out-on-company-tax-cuts-as-abbott-warns-on-policy-20180730-p4zuer.html
I mean, who are these mythical ‘working families’ that are jonesing for a corporate tax cut for businesses that overcompensate their executives and stash the rest in a post box in the Caymans!?!
Oh, that’s right, those same executives and high wealth board members and share holders, and their families, who will benefit from the pork pulled away from the taxpayer. I mean, you’ve got to pay for a new yacht to impress Peter Costello at the boat races in Victoria at the end of the year, somehow!
But he’s a creative thinker is Shorty Cormann (I mean, have you seen the legs/torso ratio of the guy!?! Maybe he needs to be able to afford one of those leg-lengthening operations or something? 😉 ). So now he has woven teh workers and small and medium businesses into his schpiel. Apparently, if Australia doesn’t join the race to the bottom for corporate tax rates, we’ll all be rooned! And a blight and pestilence will rain down upon the land as the Big Boyz at the fancypants end of town enact their wrath upon this land and take their bat and ball and go home to…well, I don’t know really because everything they rely on to make their massive profits, resources and a relatively wealthy population with a high disposable income, is here! And they’ve certainly been coining it off us in the recent past, WITH the tax rates as they are.
Which can only lead to the obvious conclusion: they are greedy and want more.
I guess expensive cigars for Matty don’t come cheap. And I guess he’s partial to a bottle of fine wine or two at an expensive restaurant as well. But he cares about the little guy, you know? No, really. 😉
Oh shit, in this case ignorance is bliss.
Paul Zanetti on Super Saturday.
Paul Zanetti on the byelections.
What a shocking three days for the Tories.
poroti @ #298 Monday, July 30th, 2018 – 1:49 pm
Or, in other words, well-paid bullshit artists for hire.
Matty knows that if he caves on tax cuts he won’t get any cushy directorships when he jumps seats in the near future. Gina doesn’t like tax-loving girlie-men.
Even when he is supposedly making a joke at Turnbull’s expense, Zanetti is completely unfunny and worse, unoriginal.
C@tmomma @ #8305 Monday, July 30th, 2018 – 1:57 pm
Well, wee Georgie is a little indisposed at present.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-30/courtney-topic-coroner-finds-death-could-have-been-avoided/10051152
Those of you who like to take selfies, be careful.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-30/selfie-deaths-chart-of-the-day/10029708
No one could ever accuse Georgie of being a thought broker.
antonbruckner11 @ #307 Monday, July 30th, 2018 – 1:58 pm
Yeah, doors slam shut toot sweet on non-performers. 🙂
adrian @ #314 Monday, July 30th, 2018 – 11:07 am
I would have thought a thought broker was someone who negotiated cash for comment deals. 🙂
I’ve long considered making a contribution to the Guardian to support quality journalism, and every time I get close, Spud Murphy comes out with a “gem” of a story that brings me to my senses and keeps my credit card in my pocket. I’d like to expand on that.
Murphy defended her non reporting of the Barnaby Joyce affair on the basis that she could not at the time find sufficient evidence to support publication of the story. Subsequent to that, she has defended her numerous Labor Leadershit articles on the basis that Labor insiders are bringing her these stories. For these purposes of this post, I’ll accept those explanations on face value.
I would like to know, in the five or so years that Murphy has been writing more or less the same Labor Leadershit stories how it could not have occurred to her, when approached by a Labor “insider” with such claims, to not publish verbatim their claims on the basis that in the FIVE YEARS they’ve been bringing her these claims that not a single one of these alleged events has ever come anywhere near fruition.
It would seem that when it comes to Bill Shorten she is neglecting to apply the same journalistic integrity that she claimed prevented her from publishing stories about Barnaby Joyce.
Moving on to five years’ worth of Kill Bill and three years of swooning over Malcolm Turnbull.
Murphy appears unable to comprehend how it is that Shorten keeps notching up success after success, declaring him to be lucky on each such occasion he enjoys such success. Has it never occurred to her that it simply isn’t possible for a person holding the position of Leader of the Opposition to be “lucky” day in and day out for FIVE YEARS?
I think there just might be story or two in not only how it is that the Leader of the Opposition has kept his job for five years, but in how he’s managed to see off one Prime Minister, pushed a first term Government to the brink of defeat and has lead a once extremely popular PM in the best part of 100 major opinion polls since the last election.
When it comes to Trumble on the other hand, she can’t comprehend why he keeps getting struck by whatever calamity befalls him with increasing frequency. Something tells me there is another story or two in examining why these things keep happening to Trumble, and why they are not going to stop happening.
Until the gormless and credulous Murphy manages to extract herself from CPG groupthink and starts regularly writing stories that I can’t get elsewhere, or is replaced by someone who can, I won’t be contributing to the Guardian.
Simon² Katich® @ #279 Monday, July 30th, 2018 – 1:14 pm
Yeah, by my count the line-up for tonight has:
Left
Jim Chalmers – Labor person
Lenore Taylor – Guardian editor
Right
Mitch Fifield – Coalition person
Parnell Palme McGuinness – Too many names person, writes for the Telegraph, will inevitably compare Labor’s policies to Communist Russia; Murdoch propagandist, basically
Tony Winwood – Hard to tell, but based on age, location, and background I’m calling this either a PHON crazy or hardcore neo-lib
Center
(are you joking?)
The left-wing voices will be outnumbered 3 to 2. Or 4 to 2 if you count the moderator. There’s no one available to represent the middle-ground opinion.
The show has really been going downhill ever since they transferred its management after the whole Zaky Mallah thing.
lizzie,
I bet Labor are getting a lot of tips like that from disgruntled punters.
Grimace ,
Murphy is paid for the quantity of her output and not the quality. So, as long as she can verify that a “Leadership” story emerged from legitimate “sources” then she can fulfill her remit.
Murphy, I understand was an apprentice to Michelle Grattan who has written the same, “Bill Shorten has questions to answer” story for years. This has seen her through the Leadership contest of the ALP, the TURC Royal Commission, various minor misspeakings and of course this latest by election cycle of commentary.
So Murphy has learnt well from her mentor and will continue to churn out the same disingenuous drivel for as long as The Guardian is prepared to pay for it.
Wonder if the Libs will be silly enough to select IPA Trickle Downer for another go in Mayo?
Spence,
Trickle is the easiest option for a seat the Libs won’t be putting any effort into at the next election.
Spence @ #320 Monday, July 30th, 2018 – 2:36 pm
You better believe it! Both the powerbrokers in the SA Liberal Party, Downer Snr and Pristopher Pyne, have said so already.
Ratsak – Yep, giving the Countess another go-round in Mayo is the only smart thing the libs have done in a while. Limit the infection to a part of the body you are going to lose anyway.
Much to my surprise, the CPG has not bought the Government line about these results being typical by-elections. But interestingly, they have all embarked on the same new direction in CPG groupthink. Now its Trumble on the ropes, etc. Apart from Trumble’s bad judgement in grossly over-egging expectations, there is little basis, it seems to me, for the dramatic turnabout in CPG thinking in the new Trumble is gorn direction.
New target, same old CPG. No doubt in a few weeks time the compass will be repaired and Kill Bill will be back again on all the news broadcasts. Sigh.
While staying mum on whether he would bring the tax cuts to the next federal election, Mr Turnbull confirmed that the Coalition would attempt to secure their passage during the spring session of parliament.
“We are committed to ensuring that Australia has a competitive company tax rate,” he said.
Yep. Gotta keep up with the Trumps wrt fattening the bank balance.
lizzie
Alice Workman tweet is confusing.
if the matter has been referred to the DPP, it would mean that the AFP have completed their investigation.
i should have added. unless the tweet you posted was before she knew about the matter being referred to the DPP
TPOF – The CPG is like a herd of cattle. Every so often there is a crack of lightning overhead and they stampeded over some poor unfortunate. Then nobody can quite work out why.
victoria
Maybe she means when someone (?) is finally charged with something – or the whole thing is buried. I think we can be assured that Cash will emerge blameless. 🙁
Very confusing
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jul/30/police-refer-evidence-to-prosecutors-over-michaelia-cash-office-union-raid-leak
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-30/queensland-mum-short-notice-mh370-final-report/10051196
lizzie
the AFP have referred it to the DPP to determine whether charges ought to be laid or not. The DPP will evaluate the evidence and make a determination. What it has done, is once again delay the AWU case. Will justice ever be served? Time will tell. You would like to believe that the DPP is not a politicised entity.
We shall see.
According to the article, the AFP want another 6 weeks for their investigation before they agree to hand over documents to the AWU.
I think Murphy serves as click-bait for The Guardian, as she often attracts thousands of mainly irate comments.
Even though it’s negative, it’s all attention and eyeballs, which is really all they’re after.
c@t
if the AFP have referred the matter to the DPP, it would have to mean that their part of the investigation is over and they have submitted their findings to the DPP for their determination.
Meanwhile, K Keneally is trying to get some sense out of the Reef lot.
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“No one could ever accuse Georgie of being a thought broker.”
A ‘thought breaker’ maybe.
adrian @ #312 Monday, July 30th, 2018 – 12:07 pm
Broken thinker would be more accurate, although that second word may be erroneous. How about just broken instead.
and you gotta wonder at the timing of the AFP referring the matter to the DPP today. conveniently after the by elections are over.
“Until the gormless and credulous Murphy manages to extract herself from CPG groupthink and starts regularly writing stories that I can’t get elsewhere, or is replaced by someone who can, I won’t be contributing to the Guardian”
Agree. Karp doesn’t do anything for me either. Mind you, the Guardian in the UK and Australia is essentially a centre-right publication, whereas the rest of the media is simply right-wing to fascist.
Thought for the day: if the road to hell is paved with good intentions, where do bad intentions get us?
zoomster
btw glad to hear that son’s passport has shown up!
Victoria
Not only that, he’s back in Australia.
Truffles determined to follow the lemmings off the cliff..
“We are committed to ensuring that Australia has a competitive company tax rate”
Competitive structural deficit more like .
It’s as shallow as Cormans argument about keeping business in Australia, as if the Banks can shut up shop & leave the country. They are stuck with us & we with them
But interestingly, they have all embarked on the same new direction in CPG groupthink. Now its Trumble on the ropes, etc. Apart from Trumble’s bad judgement in grossly over-egging expectations, there is little basis, it seems to me, for the dramatic turnabout in CPG thinking in the new Trumble is gorn direction.
Why do you think I was able to predict this is exactly what would happen a week ago? Yes the media in the large is biased to the right (poor people don’t own newspapers, journalists aren’t on below median wage). But by far the easiest explanation for their behaviour is laziness.
The Trubble for Trumble narrative was handed to them by Trumble himself. Can’t ask for better than that as a journo. No need to think. Just follow the herd.
Of course the narrative shouldn’t really be about the by elections having brought Trumble low. But equally the narrative should never have been about Shorten in trouble for the last three months. Without the bullshit Kill Bill narrative the real story of how shit this government really is and how 36 Newspolls just reflects that fact would have been told. Trumble thought he could game the narrative to change reality, but reality blew that delusion up. He can hardly complain that the laziness of the media he had tried to use for his own benefit is now eating him alive when reality destroyed the old narrative and left the easiest narrative to cling to the very one he created.