Essential Research: 51-49 to Labor

Essential finds Malcolm Turnbull increasing his lead as preferred Liberal leader, Anthony Albanese drawing level with Bill Shorten for Labor, and little change in voting intention.

The latest fortnightly result from Essential Research has Labor maintaining its 51-49 lead, with the Coalition up one on the primary vote to 41%, Labor steady on 36%, the Greens steady on 10% and One Nation steady on 6%. Also featured are questions on best Liberal and Labor leader: the former finds Malcolm Turnbull on 28%, up four since April, with Julie Bishop down one to 16% and Tony Abbott down one to 10%; the latter has Bill Shorten and Anthony Albanese tied on 19%, which is one point down since August 2017 in Shorten’s case and six points up in Albanese’s, while Tanya Plibersek is down one to 12%.

The poll also has Essential’s occasional question on attributes of the main parties, which are chiefly interesting in having the Liberals up eight points since November 2017 for having “a good team of leaders”, to 45%, and down eight on the obverse question of being “divided”, to 56%. The biggest movements for Labor are a seven point decrease for being “extreme”, to 34%; a five point decrease for being too close to corporate interests, to 37%; and a five point increase for being divided, to 56%.

The poll was conducted Thursday to Sunday from a sample of 1022; full results can be found here.

Author: William Bowe

William Bowe is a Perth-based election analyst and occasional teacher of political science. His blog, The Poll Bludger, has existed in one form or another since 2004, and is one of the most heavily trafficked websites on Australian politics.

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  1. Kristina Keneally‏Verified account @KKeneally · 6m6 minutes ago

    The Prime Minister’s ‘private meeting’ with the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, when he offered them $444m of public funding, was more private than first thought. It now turns out that there were no public servants present. Just Turnbull, Frydenberg & GBRF Chair Dr John Schubert.

  2. DTT
    What about our progressive ligjt MT, who was suppose to bring progressive heaven to Australia with his sheer will power? He became an arch-conservative appeasing the far right in his party.
    He certainly duped and is still duping a lot of progressives in OZ.

  3. I don’t quite get why Adele Ferguson has decided to make a big thing about this story.

    https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/when-will-it-end-scott-s-plea-to-bendigo-bank-20180731-p4zupr.html

    As I read it, the subject of this story created a self-managed super fund involving a high proportion of investment in the Great Southern forestry Managed Investment Scheme. He took this decision on advice from an investment advisor who had nothing whatsoever to do with the bank who issued him with the loans to set up his fund. (Well I assume they had nothing to do with the advisor because, if they did, the article presumably would have said so.) The story seems to hint that Great Southern actually organised the loan for him from the bank: but that’s not particularly unusual in these sorts of situations. The loans were at a relatively high rate of interest, as is usual for loans issued by banks to fund such arrangements.

    Great Southern collapsed a decade or so back. Since then, the bank has been after him to repay the loan money under processes that I’m sure were explicitly set out in the loan documents he would have originally signed. This is causing him great personal and financial hardship he is concerned he is going to lose his home, which was presumably collateral to help him get the loan.

    Part of his problem appears to be arise from the fact that “he joined a class action and was advised not to make any loan repayments” and, consequently, his debt ballooned. If the class action was against anyone other than the bank, I’d have to question the value of this advice.

    There seems to be no suggestion that he was ever pressured or misled in any way by Bendigo Bank.

    Nevertheless, Ms Ferguson seems to perceive this story as giving her an opportunity to give Bendigo Bank a bit of a serve:

    “The royal commission is scrutinising the behaviour of the banking sector and has found that some behaviour doesn’t meet the letter of the law but doesn’t meet community standards. Given Bendigo markets itself as a community bank, it needs a proper rethink of its behaviour. Indeed, Bendigo’s governance when it comes to its board, has already been the subject of criticism, particularly over the length of tenure of its chairman…”

    So apparently the long tenure of the Bank’s chairman is somehow responsible for the bank failing to meet some sort of “community standards” which are something to do with the royal commission although Ferguson doesn’t seem to be suggesting that this particular sort of behaviour on the part of the Bendigo Bank is something concerning the Royal Commission.

    But I don’t get it. My understanding of “community standards” in relation to the banks go something like “banks have no right to advise someone to invest their money in a certain way and then financially ruin to recover their losses when the investment goes bad.” This is why banks seem now to be rapidly getting out of the financial advice industry (and IMO, they should never have gotten into it in the first place).

    But there’s no suggestion in this story that Bendigo Bank ever advised the guy to make the investments he made. But Ms Ferguson seems to be suggesting that, despite this, the bank should not enforce the agreement that he signed.

    But I’m not sure that it is a “community standard” that everyone who borrows money from a bank to make a bad investment they themselves have chosen, and which then goes bung and causes them financial hardship, should then get charitable consideration. Surely people have some responsibility for the choices they make. Personally, I’m far more concerned about people who are in financial hardship because of events over which they had no choice at all.

  4. sprocket_ @ #195 Wednesday, August 1st, 2018 – 1:13 pm

    The SmearStralian has picked up ReefGate.

    Labor is calling on the PM to explain why a small environmental group funded by mining giants received a $444m federal donation. theaustralian.com.au/national-affai… #auspol

    I mostly use Firefox with Poll Bludger

    BK advised a couple of days ago that Outline.com no longer works with The Australian stories.

    I have done a little research and have now installed as an Addon for Firefox the following item.

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    I could not find this extension for Chrome, sorry. Somebody else may be able to help with this.

  5. meher

    I’m having much the same reaction to some of the stories coming out of the banking RC – along the lines of ‘what did you expect would happen when you defaulted?” …

  6. Lizzie@1:30pm
    I have thought on why the so called “Fund” was kept it under wraps by MSM.
    LNP and MSM must have thought Shorten will be toast after Super-saturday and ALP will be in turmoil and people will not care about shady deals like above “fund” and MT will be master of OZ

  7. Is this proof of Trumpian paranoia or just your average Dutton meanness?

    MazMyers‏ @MazMyers · 31m31 minutes ago
    Replying to @StevenTimadang @ItsBouquet @noplaceforsheep

    I came here age 20, married an Australian-born man and had two Australian children. I also became an Australian citizen and have an Australian passport. I have worked here and paid taxes for 48 years. And you want me to prove my Australian identity again!

  8. I posted this tweet from Kristina Keneally in the comments of the Guardian, asking that we have more about the topic in the Guardian and the ABC. It was very quickly deleted. Clearly the Guardian is now suppressing mention of Mal’s $444 million scam. Perhaps Katharine has more power than Lenore?

    “@KKeneally
    4m4 minutes ago
    More
    The Prime Minister’s ‘private meeting’ with the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, when he offered them $444m of public funding, was more private than first thought. It now turns out that there were no public servants present. Just Turnbull, Frydenberg & GBRF Chair Dr John Schubert.”

  9. The Australian on the preselection of Falzon:

    https://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/labor-candidate-laughs-off-picture-of-him-wearing-lenin-tshirt/news-story/05b10b77d70d756430756ba0176e6df1

    Labor preselection candidate John Falzon commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with Vladimir Lenin’s face, wearing a Soviet red star lapel pin and standing in front of a Soviet flag.
    ::::
    His candidacy has caused Labor alarm because of his views on a range of policy issues, including his advocacy for Palestine and criticism of Israel, and his opposition to offshore detention of ­asylum-seekers. He recently ­deleted tweets critical of Israel.

    The preselection has divided party factions. Kel Watt, from the Right, has been the subject of “dirt sheets” alleging incriminatory behaviour. The documents have been referred to ACT Policing.

  10. MB,

    Yep seems all to boil down to any relationship between the advisor and Bendigo and/or if Bendigo didn’t do their own due diligence on the loan.

    If the advisor is independent then how can Bendigo be in anyway held liable for bad (in hindsight) advice.

    And if the borrower was correctly judged capable of affording the loan under Bendigo’s processes (assuming they are relatively robust) the fact the investment went belly up is no reason to not demand repayment of the loan.

    There is a mile of difference between a bank’s investment arm pushing high risk investments on wood ducks and then loading them up with debt for same and a bank coming for it’s due on a failed investment made completely independent of them. Without Ferguson demonstrating how the advisor and Bendigo are linked the entire complaint seems to be ‘banks use the law to collect debts…’ which isn’t the most shocking revelation.

    Hard to know if this is a case of Ferguson not adding the explicit info that would make the story or just having done so brilliantly out of exposing genuine rorts she’s over reached on this one.

  11. Good Afternoon.

    So much to comment on. I will instead summarise.

    An avalanche of bad news for right wing nut jobs around the world as facts start to reassert themselves.

    In Australia this is everything from the prospect of Cash facing court and maybe a jail sentence to falling consumer confidence figures as penalty rate cuts reduces buying power of workers.

    On the polling its interesting itlooks morelike a 55 to Labor from the byelections compared to the 51 we keep seeing. Thats going to be very interesting if that happens again at the national level

  12. Emma Husar MP‏ @emmahusarmp

    2/2 The concert tickets were a birthday present from a friend. Confident I’ve always acted within the rules but have asked IPEA to double-check and review as I take the use of taxpayers’ money extremely seriously.

  13. Money, lobbyists and NSW:

    https://www.buzzfeed.com/bradesposito/greyhound-racing-million-dollar-chase?utm_term=.li2XlG2xd#.snaLq75W1

    The richest greyhound event in the world is coming to New South Wales, two years after a ban on the industry was reversed.
    :::
    Only two years ago, then-NSW premier Mike Baird spectacularly reversed a decision to ban greyhound racing in the state.

    Baird’s initial decision came after widespread reports of mistreatment within the greyhound industry as well as the discovery of mass graves.

    The decision was reversed after a strong pushback from the industry, as well as opposition leader Luke Foley of Labor.

    A vocal opponent to the greyhound industry, the Greens’ Mehreen Faruqi released a statement on Tuesday calling the government’s decision to fund the event “sickening”.

    “In just the last two weeks, there have been seven deaths and 91 injuries on racing tracks. People would be horrified to know that their tax dollars are propping up this gambling industry, rife with animal cruelty,” she said.

    Greyhound lobbyist Kel Watt is standing as a candidate for ALP preselection in Canberra.

  14. Lizzie

    If Husar has to resign through findings of guilty then expect to see the media go mad. Thats a very big if in our innocent until proven guilty justice system.

    Thats when Labor has to have Dreyfus going hard on establishing a real Federal ICAC and accountability.

    Lots of compareand contrast the pair. This is essential to letting the public remember Labor andLNP are not the same. Labor recognises the problem and is moving to eliminate corruption and the perception of corruption in politics. The LNP are not.

    This is vital to getting those you can’t trust politicians voters to vote for Labor. Thus more One Nation voters and the like will preference Labor above the LNP.

    This could see a national primary vote for the LNP with a 2 in front of it.
    Its the whole reason the Murdoch propaganda arms are hyping this up. They can see the damage being done to that primary vote

  15. GG

    If you are about. Kudos to Pope Francis for his latest moves on child abuse worldwide. It looks like he is going to put in the structural changes needed to prevent such cases in future.

    This is very praiseworthy and we all should applaud this.

  16. Guytaur,

    It’s good to see Labor finally moving on a federal ICAC and following the Greens lead in calling for one which Paddy Manning acknowledges.

    Though, of course, once there was bipartisan support to stymie, or drag their heels on the establishment of such a federal anti-corruption body. However the calls from the public are now too great to be ignored. Labor rightly perceives there are now votes in it to go for it.

    Paddy Manning in The Monthly:

    https://www.themonthly.com.au/today/paddy-manning/2018/31/2018/1533005006/corrupting-canberra

    Not just a national anti-corruption agency, as first the Greens and now Labor have proposed, but an all-out, zero-tolerance campaign to restore integrity to our federal public administration.

  17. Re Alpo @12:12: I haven’t been able to find anything that gives the One Nation preference split for Longman.

    Looking at those numbers, assuming a 50:50 split for ‘other’ and 83% of Green prefs, Labor must have scored about 36% of One Nation plus LDP. Allocating 90% of LDP prefs to Liberal (guesswork) would mean Labor got close to 40% of One Nation Preferences.

  18. Guytaur,
    “If you are about. Kudos to Pope Francis for his latest moves on child abuse worldwide. It looks like he is going to put in the structural changes needed to prevent such cases in future. ”

    But has Uber-Pontiff Paul Kelly of the Strayan given assent to the Pope?

  19. Pegasus

    I like the Greens brought oit up first. I like that Labor is really on board with this. I just think Labor needs to highlight it more so voters know this is a real choice on trust as well as equality this coming Federal Election.

  20. I dont see NSW helping LNP, based on pollbludger projections LNP would have to get to 53-47 (their way) to take a 1 Labor seat (Lindsay), 54.1 to get a 2nd. They are likely to lose a min of 5 in QLD/WA.

    Looking at the election state by state, i just dont see any strategy Libs can use to help them, they need to try and limit their loses in WA and QLD, and take seats in other states to make up for the few they do lose there.

    It could be argued they are already trying to pork-barrel NSW with all the infrastructure funding, airport, roads etc, but that works against them in Vic and QLD.

    Libs need something big for the whole nation to change their trajectory, and policy isnt really their thing, i dont see any feasible positive strategy they could implement to pull things back, but there are negative ones, which is probably why they are throwing mud.

    Their only chance is if Labor does something stupid, like if libs win 1 poll so Labor panics and changes leader (because of all the mud), or Labor commits to a deeply unpopular policy.

    And keep in mind, Labor still has a big budget they can spend compared to libs, so expect there will be significant spending commitments from Labor, so Libs will have trouble even spending their way out of it.

    Its Labors election to lose.

  21. Re the ABC: they should leave lightweight lifestyle stuff to the Commercials.

    Re “Free Markets”: they don’t exist. No one believes in them except a few acedemic economists and no one wants them, least of all big business except for their labour force and suppliers.

    Re Janet Albrechtsen: funny that of all the stuff happening in the country and the world, Emma Husar is apparently the issue she thinks most needs answers, especially given that she is a director of the IPA, an anti-worker organisation that would strip away workplace protections.

  22. guytaur

    According to the latest Essential poll’s question on the attributes of Lab and Lib, the public essentially perceive the two major parties as same-same on:

    Trustworthy – 34% (Lib) 33% (Lab)

    Keeps its promises – 33% (Lib) 34% (Lab)

    Will promise to do anything to win votes – 64% Lib) 68% (Lab)

  23. “I dont see NSW helping LNP, based on pollbludger projections LNP would have to get to 53-47 (their way) to take a 1 Labor seat (Lindsay)…

    Murdoch’ minions are working on Lindsay, Ms Husar’s seat.

  24. Ven @ #197 Wednesday, August 1st, 2018 – 1:27 pm

    DTT@9:14am
    “Joe Kennedy, whose pro-German sympathies are well know.”
    I will tell a story about John F Kennedy, the progressive light who life was cut short dramatically. He joined US Navy in 1930s and went to Europe on duty in late 1930s, by the time Hitler and Mussolini were well established as rulers. He was on record saying that Europe needed fascist governments like in Germany and Italy. Google it or I will try to provide the link in the night.

    Well old Joe Kennedy his dad was very anti English (pro Irish) and generally fairly pro German. I am a little surprised that JFK would have expressed those views but I can believe it especially while he was still young. He would have been mixing with the UK fascist movement while staying with his dad (US Ambassador) in London anyway – the Moselys and of course the King himself – and I guess Wallis Simpson who was “very close” to the German Ambssador

  25. Pegasus

    Yes exactly my point of why Labor needs to highlight they are more trustworthy by establishing real accountability.

    Labor has a great chance to make this case. That voter perception is because of propaganda efforts and Labor needs to counter them.

    I know the Greens won’t they will say both are the same. Unless Labor can combat that propaganda by showing to voters that their commitment is real on this. I belive Labor are.

  26. Sohar

    But has Uber-Pontiff Paul Kelly of the Strayan given assent to the Pope?

    He is still discussing it with Cardinal Sheridan and Monk Abbott the Mad.

  27. No guessing as to why the vital bits of the NEG are missing, like everything with this bunch of crooks, it’s because it’s shit :

    The chapter of modelling – not made public before today – does not, however, detail the assumptions that underpinned the work done for the board by ACIL Allen, the consultants.

    Dylan McConnell, an energy expert at the University of Melbourne, said many analysts had hoped to see the precise assumptions used to support the board’s arguments, including that the guarantee would save households an average of $550 per year over the first decade.

    “Definitely, there’s something missing,” Mr McConnell said. “[The report] is not the actual modelling.”

    He contrasted the partial disclosure with the Gillard government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, or carbon tax, when the full modelling from two separate consultancies was made public before the policy was voted on.

    “The Climate Change Authority always released its modelling,” he said, adding that the same was true for the Warburton review into the Renewable Energy Target.

    Federal Labor is among those that has called for the full release of the modelling

    https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/environment/climate-change/something-missing-final-national-energy-paper-omits-modelling-data-20180801-p4zuuu.html

  28. Tanya Plibersek seemed to me on the morning after Super Saturday to have on the mask that people have over their features when something is deeply worrying them.

    My guess would be illness in the family.

  29. Murdoch media seems to have moved seamlessly to a “kill Mal” campaign (I am sure they will not give up on Kill Bill). Dutton will be working the numbers.

    Pass the popcorn please.

    it’d be more entertaining if I didn’t suspect that the “no action on climate” coal lobby will be backing Mal’s deposition to stop even the weak NEG going through.

  30. Just did a little exercise around prefs seeing as how PHON prefs are under discussion…

    Applying last election preference estimates (81.94 Greens, 49.53% PHON, 49.22% Others to Labor) to Longman and Braddon both got the result a bit over 2% wrong. But they were wrong in the opposite directions. 56.49% est v 54.35% actual in Longman, 50.08% est v 52.44% actual in Braddon.

    But had you applied last election prefs to the combined vote of the two ‘traditional’ contests? Pretty much bang on the money. 53.84% est v 53.56% actual.

    Now of course you can make arguments about the Independent in Braddon being a special case, but the evidence to support the contention that other similarly ALP preferencing Others won’t balance out the lower PHON preference rate, or that PHON will simply pick up a lot of the anti-ALP Others (thus leading to a more ALP friendly Others preference rate) is pretty thin as far as I’m aware.

    So from the only actual real votes we’ve had to test if Last Election prefs provide an accurate estimate they seem to hold up very well. By contrast if you had used say a 35% estimate for PHON prefs to the ALP (without adjusting Others) you would have got Longman almost bang on, but ended up underestimating the ALP vote of the combined seats by over 1%.

    The point being when you’re talking about extrapolating from a National poll you are evening out the swings and roundabouts over 151 seats. If you’re only adding the PHON swings without the Others roundabouts you could be getting led astray.

  31. This stuff about reading by-election entrails is amazing. Across the 118 year history of this nation, there have been precious few by-elections and the results of each necessarily will be a complex combination of unique factors relating to when it was held, the circumstances, the candidates, the local community set-up, local economic factors and a dozen other unique factors.

    I know this is a psephological site, but some of the analysis here, and by luminaries like Peter Brent elsewhere, smacks of trying determine someone’s genome from the appearance of a knee graze. For what it’s worth I think Tim Colbatch’s analysis is the best I’ve seen this time, but mainly because it focuses on a lot more data from a lot more data points than any of the other comments. And as for comparing a routine national opinion poll with what happened on the ground in 4 to 5 unique locations. that is just nonsense. As we all know, even in a general election swings are not uniform by any means.

    To the extent that anything can be garnered from these by-elections, it is that Labor did well in a highly marginal seat in Queensland that it unexpectedly won at the last general election. It’s a good sign for Labor, but with so much that can happen before the next election is held it would be madness to rest on any laurels.

  32. The roughly equal splits apparent on the questions of trustworthiness and promise-keeping are consistent with the very persistent divide in Australian politics. Labor voters don’t trust the LNP and LNP voters don’t trust Labor, probably in roughly equal numbers; while those who favour neither side presumably are equally likely to mistrust the major parties. Intuitively, voters are likely to mistrust those they perceive as their enemies.

    These kind of results don’t illuminate much at all.

    My greatest fear with respect to the LNP is not that they will break their promises but that they will keep them. Meanwhile, the Green/ON whinge that Labor = Liberal only serves to reinforce alienation and to drive voter rejection.

  33. Thanks Rats – very enlightening. Doesn’t this say that when Newspoll uses Qld state election prefs for a national poll it is ABSOLUTELY NUTS. ON always polls much better in Qld than it does in the rest of the country. That is because, in Qld, ON gets a lot of disaffected libs (who bulk up its vote and give their second prefs back to the libs). In the rest of the country, that doesn’t happen. Newspoll should be using the Braddon pref numbers in its national polls (with a slight uplift for Qld).

  34. Ged Kearney‏Verified account @gedkearney · 1h1 hour ago

    In HoR standing committee on economics – Just heard evidence from the @TheIPA that corporate tax should be ZERO! #notsurprising #economics #fairtax

  35. I don’t know about absolutely nuts AB.

    Just that on the (extremely limited) data from Saturday we can certainly argue that PHON prefs to Labor will be reduced, but that is only one of a large number of variables and so the case for not continuing to use Last Election prefs when estimating 2PP for National polls hasn’t been made convincingly.

  36. The thing with estimating the ON numbers and extrapolating them (William or Kevin can correct me if I am way off base here) across the board is:

    A) Qld is their stronghold, so to speak, so up there the primary for ON will always be higher there

    B) Around the rest of the country, ON is patchy and in many places non existent – so applying preference estimates based on Qld is always going to skew things

    C) Apart from in Longman, no ON candidate that I recall, has ever got more than about 6% ???

    D) Their preferences cannot be predicted – I suspect they’ll vary from electorate to electorate depending on who else is running

  37. Mark ✊‏ @WorldOfMarkyD · 2h2 hours ago

    Michaelia Cash spent $118,350 on her parliamentary entitlementsincluding $6,094 on COMCAR use ⚠️

    in 5 months not a peep from our media

    Emma Husar legitimately used just $2,000 .. yet NewsLtd stalks her home at night, and calls for her resignation

  38. BlotReport‏ @BlotReport

    Fund raising events in #Mayo by-election. #GeorginaDowner had a $??? per plate dinner at #MarbleHill (historic house owned by #JulieBishop’s sister), attended by all the nobs. Same day #RebekhaSharkie had a quiz night in the #Macclesfield pub. Sums up the two campaigns. #auspol

  39. Pegasus:

    “Labor preselection candidate John Falzon commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with Vladimir Lenin’s face, wearing a Soviet red star lapel pin and standing in front of a Soviet flag.
    ::::
    His candidacy has caused Labor alarm because of his views on a range of policy issues, including his advocacy for Palestine and criticism of Israel, and his opposition to offshore detention of ­asylum-seekers. He recently ­deleted tweets critical of Israel.

    The preselection has divided party factions. Kel Watt, from the Right, has been the subject of “dirt sheets” alleging incriminatory behaviour. The documents have been referred to ACT Policing.”

    Suggests that I’m correct in my surmise that senior party figures are behind the entry of the non-aligned Payne and Banks into the contest.

  40. lizzie: “In HoR standing committee on economics – Just heard evidence from the @TheIPA that corporate tax should be ZERO! #notsurprising #economics #fairtax”

    It would mean that Labor would no longer face any opposition to changing the rules on dividend imputation.

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