The latest fortnightly poll from Essential Research has Labor’s lead at 52-48, up from 51-49 in the two previous polls. It also features Essential’s monthly leadership ratings, which reflect Newspoll’s in being bad news for the goverment, thought not in quite the same way. Where Newspoll had Malcolm Turnbull’s ratings tanking, Essential has him down only one point on approval, to 42%, and up two on disapproval, also to 42%. However, Essential records an improvement in the ratings of Bill Shorten, who is up three on approval to 34% and down three on disapproval to 44%. Turnbull’s lead as preferred prime minister is 41-27, down from 42-25. Further questions relate to drought and climate change, freedom of speech and social media and the Nine takeover of Fairfax, which you can read about at The Guardian – or when Essential publishes its full report later today, which is also when we will get primary vote numbers.
UPDATE: Full results from Essential Research here. The primary votes are Coalition 39% (down two), Labor 37% (up one), Greens 10% (steady) and One Nation 6% (steady). The poll was conducted Thursday to Sunday from a sample of 1032.
Also, federal voting intention results have now emerged from the YouGov Galaxy poll of Queensland, which have two-party preferred at 50-50, compared with a 52-48 lead to the Coalition in the last such poll in May, and 54.1-45.9 at the election. The primary votes are Coalition 37% (40% in May, 43.2% at the election), Labor 34% (33% and 30.9%), One Nation 10% (10% and 5.5%) and Greens 9% (10% and 8.8%). This poll was conducted Wednesday and Thursday last week, from a sample of 839.
Further results from the Newspoll: 55% would favour lifting restrictions on gas exploration if it would mean lower power prices, with 31% opposed; 37% said Malcolm Turnbull and the Coalition would be “best at maintaining Australia’s electricity supply and keeping power prices lower”, compared with 36% for Bill Shorten and Labor; and 63% said the government’s priority should be keeping energy prices down, compared with 26% for meeting greenhouse gas emissions targets and 8% for preventing blackouts.
Shaoquett Moselmane
Verified account @Shaoquett
2h2 hours ago
The NSW Labor Opposition has demanded Berejiklian Government Minister Ray Williams be stood down for his role in influencing the outcome of an investigation into #water rorts following the publication of a damning Ombudsman’s report. @MinnsChris #nswpol
Greens and Bandt in particular seriously suffering from a case of relevance deprivation syndrome. Whether the Greens like the fact or not, a majority of Australians do not support people being able to arrive here by boat. By all means, we can argue about indefinite detention and unnecessarily prolonged cruelty, we can discuss a higher refugee intake, but Labor cannot and will not budge on boat arrivals. As others have mentioned, the Greens and the Coalition will continue to attack from opposite sides, but they tried this in 2016 and failed to make boats an election issue, for the simple reason that none are coming. Labor must and will ignore the attacks and focus on the things that most matter to Australians, such as wages and the proper funding of services.
Zoidlord
Bandt has a point. Until Labor stands up to the LNP on racism it will continue to be wedged on immigration.
The good news is that Labor seems to be seizing the political moment from Senator Wong’s tweet.
All Labor has to do is hold fast to its existing policy and the LNP will lose more votes than it gains.
No matter how much the Greens point out the obvious. No matter how some Labor supporters dislike that being pointed out.
abbott’s quote re: “warming might be good” would be funny if it wasn’t sad. he follows the anti-science line of reasoning:
1. Warming is not occurring, because there is no greenhouse effect (CO2 is “plant food” and “an invisible, odorless, weightless (sic) gas”)
2. If warming is occurring because CO2 is a greenhouse gas, then it will be good for us, so there is nothing to worry about.
what is wrong with our country that this fuckwit could have been PM (and will soon probably be minister for energy (the term ‘environment’ will be dropped) under PM Dutton).
@guytaur
Bandt does not have a point, until the Greens stop attacking the wrong side of politics and work together as a team, they will never have better policies to protect us from Racism etc.
Bandt chose poorly.
The Greens Party are not a majority party, and now trying to devide the Labor Party into the Greens demands is political suicide. Stop lumping Labor with Liberal.
#enoughisenough
Wouldn’t it be great to live on the same planet for a short while.
Poroti,
“Thanks for the Helen Razer link.”
My thoughts, too. I watched that War on Waste on iView because my partner insisted. The Chaser guy spent a lot of time dumping rubbish as Daniel Andrew’s office, but ignored that Victoria, not NSW, had banned plastic bags. His chats with Josh were very chummy. Typical ABC rubbish (pardon the pun).
Matt
Every time a Labor supporter blames the Greens for pointing out the obvious race baiting policy dog breakfast Howard brought us they give the LNP the excuse to keep doing it. Labor remains wedged.
See Dutton’s legal threats to see how politically dangerous pointing out that policy is based on racism baiting is.
Dutton knows this is a real and present danger for him
The fall of the Minority government is what got us here, The Greens going into bed with the Liberal Party since Joe Hockey and Debt Limit Government.
Zoidlord
Bandt does have a point. Ignoring this to salve your conscience and pretend Howard’s policy were not based on race baiting is to ignore reality.
Zoidlord
Don’t listen to me. Listen to Senator Wong
« Anning’s speech is not a momentary aberration. It is a perfectly natural extension of the past decade or two…It is the slow, relentless debasement of our politics through an increasing flirtation with race-baiting that has made this possible » https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/will-parliament-s-fraser-anning-moment-simply-be-self-congratulation-20180816-p4zxsk.html
The Liberals used to lecture us that government mandated price controls would only cause companies to stop supplying the market. Now Turnbull is grasping at price control as a sort of life raft hoping to save his terminal PMship.
@guytaur
What a croc of crap again.
Greens attacking Labor.
Greens should attack Liberals.
Greens are helping Disunity.
End of story.
Zoidlord
So what Senator Wong has said is a load of crap. Cool glad we cleared that up with your rewriting of history
@guytaur
Senator Wong isn’t from the Greens Party.
She is from the Labor Party, never twist words.
Greens attacking Labor and not the Liberal/National Party.
Arseholes:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-17/foodora-enters-into-administration/10133620
Zoidlord
So yes. Bandt said the same thing Wong said. The only difference was he Bandt pointed out Labor voting to retain the law Howard put into place to enable this race baiting policies to continue.
Its you rewriting history not Bandt not Wong.
You can have your own opinion not your own facts
Foodora refused to pay for his medical expenses because they considered him an “independent contractor” — his own boss in other words — rather than an employee.
This competitive hierarchy is called “the Batch”, and it ranks workers according to who delivers the most food, works the most weekend evening shifts, and puts in the longest hours.
Foodora and Worrells have been contacted for comment.
C7nts.
Libspill, is it happening? When? Who will challenge?
‘boomy1 says:
Friday, August 17, 2018 at 3:37 pm
PDJames? haha.
When she died, a part of you died too. Why can’t people accept the fact that we all die.’
Sing that through your nose and you are half to a Nobel Prize for Literature.
Player One says:
Friday, August 17, 2018 at 3:48 pm
don @ #2224 Friday, August 17th, 2018 – 3:25 pm
Not sure who DT is, I presume this is a typo for Bob Dylan or Robert Zimmerman.
I think Boerwar is confusing Bob Dylan with Dylan Thomas.
______________
That did cross my mind, but I thought no one with an ounce of sense could confuse the two.
Wrong. Or maybe right.
Greens v Labor, slightly interesting, labor v LNP getting better, LNP v LNP, this is the most fun
@guytaur
Bandt did nothing of a sort, he attacked labor Party.
“enable this race baiting policies to continue”
Entirely false, and not fact.
When you loose power from Government and switch from Labor to Liberal governments, this is what enables “race baiting” policies.
Labor Party never mentions Immigration Policy or make it a central pillar to their re-election campaigns. It is never their strong points.
Stop re-rewriting history.
Rowan
@FightingTories
PwC Australia is hosting a full-day, $12,500 a head, fund-raising event for the Liberal Party at its Sydney offices where guests can “nominate up to five meetings with ministers” before attending a private dinner with PM and cabinet. https://www.afr.com/business/accounting/pwc-hosts-125000-a-head-pick-a-minister-liberal-fundraiser-20180814-h13xn8 … via @FinancialReview
How many times today has Bandt said “Look at me! Look at me!”?
Zoidlord
Nope. Bandt just pointed out Labor was supporting what Howard put in place. No more no less. Reasonable for Bandt to point out.
This is fact no matter how much you dislike it and call it a Green attack on the ALP. Guess what don’t give the Greens the option. Don’t vote for Howard race bating policy.
Without that vote those children on Nauru and Manus would be coming to our home today.
@guytaur
Completely false.
Never forget John Howard always played race politics. He started against Vietnamese ‘Boat People’ & Malcolm Fraser squashed him. Then against Asians in 1988 & Bob Hawke squashed him. Then when elected in 1996 he went after Asians again, Indigenous & later refugees. Never forget.
“Until Labor stands up to the LNP on racism”….
Are you suggesting that Labor has a cosy relationship with racism? You have got to be kidding…
Shorten and Labor (not just Wong) are strongly for Multiculturalism and against racism. Whereas on the Liberal side half of them accept Multiculturalism the other half hate it and say and do things that look and smell racist, but if you ask them, of course they reply: “but, but, I am not a racist”..
As the old saying goes, the buck stops with you.
The Greens don’t want any responsibility, they want the blame game on Labor.
Trying to quote Senator Wong to make it look like Greens supporting Labor is not, just an illusion of helping, when in Reality just dividing Greens-Labor, in the end.
Bandt has no responsibility, no care.
Zoidlord
You are rewriting history because you don’t like the view.
You can spin as much as you like. Some can say Bandt is attention seeking. However it does not change facts.
Howard era policy. Was voted on by Labor supporting the LNP to retrospectively confirm the excision was legal. Doing Howards work for him. He is not even in parliament anymore. Yet Labor voted with the LNP.
The reason is clear. Its to minimise the political damage and to win an election. Just don’t fool yourself. The Greens have a point. Hate it as much as you want
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq7JSic1DtM
I could be wrong or I could be right.
Bandt’s language is all there to see.
Attacking Labor but not protecting Labor in helping to create better immigration policies together to get LNP/National Party out of Government.
Dave: “Greens v Labor, slightly interesting, labor v LNP getting better, LNP v LNP, this is the most fun”
I would only object about the first bit: Greens vs Labor, total waste of good progressive time and energy.
@guytaur
All The Greens do is have a “.”, all talk, no action.
Zoidlord
Yes attacking Labor for voting for a LNP policy that was founded on race baiting and started the whole Labor wedge.
@guytaur
“Yes attacking Labor for voting for a LNP policy that was founded on race baiting and started the whole Labor wedge”
Oh wait you spoken the truth for once, attacked Labor, instead of defending Labor in their position of responsibility.
Which we know the Greens have fuck all.
Zoidlord
And you have fuck all care for the fact of the cruelty and insanity of the policy as you say how dare the Greens point out a fact. Just because you don’t like the Greens
Eddy Jokovich
@EddyJokovich
5h5 hours ago
I reported this a few weeks ago but the end is getting closer. Floor-crossing, sniping, undermining. And rumours of a #LIBSPILL, possibly on Monday. It’s a very unhappy camp in the Liberal Party. #AUSPOL
guytaur @ #2278 Friday, August 17th, 2018 – 1:52 pm
Labor were supporting current Labor policy and following convention.
What you and the Greens are conflating is the framework of the policy and the application of that policy, i.e. how the Minister and the Department administer that policy.
The situation with the children is all about the choice the Government has made in how they will deal with medical situations.
That has nothing to do with the framework of the policy.
Zoidlord says:
That sort of ‘pay to play ‘ should be totally banned.
Barney
Nice escapism argument. However Labor’s vote made the it legal retrospectively.
Labor could have just done and Abbot and wedged the LNP on AS. Nope let them off the hook
However its nice to see you are not denying reality.
Zoidlord
Lucien Aye will be hearing this all weekend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCfWHqrYUqo
@guytaur
A FACT is not a vote, is not a seat in the senate, or in upper house.
Until you have the responsibility of gaining power and to run a nation, all you talking, ranting and raving lunatic at Labor is nothing at all.
A Labor government running on Immigration policy with a toxic media will be political suicide.
Greens never learnt that from the minority government or a Rudd/Gillard government.
Alpo @ #2280 Friday, August 17th, 2018 – 1:56 pm
You’ve missed one very important group, those that are not racist but use race baiting because they see it as serving some political ends.
They to me are more detestable than the largely ignorant racist!!!! 🙁
@poroti
Lucien Aye will be counting them pennies.
Zoidlord
You can rant and rave. You cannot change the fact Bandt has a point. Labor voted for a Howard era policy. This has given the Greens a fact it can attack Labor on. Yes it gives the Greens a very valid reason to say same same.
Labor did it for good reason. However denying its reality and bemoaning the fact the Greens can use it to attack Labor doesn’t change that vote. Remember too Bandt was only attacking Labor for supporting LNP policy on this
Sohar @ #2257 Friday, August 17th, 2018 – 4:24 pm
Yes, good article.
Re War on Waste. If you look closely at the closing credits, you will find that it is sponsored or supported by the NSW government. Its attack on Victoria thus makes perfect sense.
@guytaur
You sound like a broken record that hasn’t fixed it’s tuning problems.
guytaur @ #2293 Friday, August 17th, 2018 – 2:05 pm
So reality is escapism?????