Courtesy of the Fairfax papers, one last Ipsos poll for the year, showing Labor with a two-party lead of 54-46, out from an anomalous 52-48 a month ago. On the primary vote, the Coalition is down one to 36%, Labor up three to 37% and the Greens are steady on 13%. The leaders’ ratings are little changed: Scott Morrison is down one on approval to 47% and up three on disapproval to 39%; Bill Shorten is up one on approval to 41% and down three on disapproval to 50%; and Morrison’s lead as preferred prime minister has narrowed from 47-35 to 46-37. The poll also finds opinion evenly divided on Labor’s negative gearing policy, with 43% in favour and 44% opposed, while 48% oppose its related cut in the capital gains tax discount, with 43% in support. The poll was conducted Wednesday to Saturday from a sample of 1200.
Ipsos: 54-46 to Labor
The final Ipsos poll for the year fails to replicate its unusually strong result for the Coalition last time.
Jericho hits the nail on the head: ‘The budget might be back in surplus but this seems incredibly divorced from the reality of people’s lives.’
IMO the more the Far Right card carrying hacks on $350,000 a year carry on about ‘a beautiful set of numbers’ the greater resentment they are going to generate.
https://www.theguardian.com/au
Never one to wish ill health but it would be our to our advantage to have successive deliveries as follows:
(a) molly grubber to knock back Pujara’s middle peg; and
(b) a rearer that fractures many of Kohli’s fingers.
poroti @ #591 Monday, December 17th, 2018 – 5:27 pm
It’s just embarrassing, it really is.
Why would they hate Rudd? They got rid of Julia to bring him back.
What about his dry rot fungus cultures?
The Coalition harms.
The Greens seek to wound, but fail pathetically even at that.
Labor heals.
shellbell @ #602 Monday, December 17th, 2018 – 5:31 pm
It’s only a Game and not a matter of life or death.
It’s far more important than that!
Surely there’d have been no resignation if the sex scandal was only alleged.
Broad’s side of politics is quite accomplished at denying even the most obviously credible of allegations and only stepping down when there’s ironclad proof that the allegations are true. And sometimes not even then.
Is there any other organisation that would actually REWARD such extreme levels of destructive treachery… ?
It’s twilight zone stuff !!
shellbell
‘(a) molly grubber to break both of Pujara’s big toes; and,
(b) a rearer that fractures many of Kohli’s fingers on both hands.
Fixed?
1/0
Tony Wright really sticks it into the Muppets
“Quote from the late Billy Graham,” Broad had tweeted, citing a famed moraliser. “When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost, when character is lost, everything is lost…Telling words for the leadership of the National Party.”
No one could possibly comment.”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2018/dec/17/labor-national-conference-day-two-politics-live
So the AFP have said ‘nothing to see here’, which is kind of embarrassing for Broad and McCormack, and they, presumably, have no excuse now to duck questions about this.
(From the Guardian live blog at 17:32)
It also raises the question of what it was that Broad asked the AFP to look into (disclosing personal text messages?); and certainly that the AFP weren’t asked to look into possibly inappropriate use of entitlements by Broad.
What a clown show.
Someone called Michelle Levine (Morgan polling?) on ABC 24 basically saying ‘nothing to see here folk, move along’ re: ‘Sugar-Daddygate’
SK
They did abandon a West Indies-England Test in Jamaica in 1998 with England 3/17 after 10.1 overs and the physio having gone onto the ground six times to tend to injuries!
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cricket-england-17-3-pitch-stops-play-match-abandoned-1141794.html
I liked Alec Stewart’s deadpan response to a reporter
Speaking afterwards, Alec Stewart, one who had survived the ordeal with his wicket intact, said he had played on flatter pitches
The Labor right just voted AGAINST a human rights charter and won 195-192.
shellbell
Really the worst thing for a batsman is a short of length ball that rears up as expected. Then the next ball of about the same length hits a crack or something and keeps absurdly low and you are out bowled or LBW as it is all but impossible to adjust to that much change.
Oddly enough the pitch is a bit like the one which Phi Hughes scored twin centuries on in 2009 in SA and in whchh Johnson broke Kallis’s hand or fingers and hit heaps of others
‘Zoidlord says:
Monday, December 17, 2018 at 3:48 pm
Alex Turnbull
@alexbhturnbull
3m3 minutes ago
One thing a good friend brought up about Andrew Broad – if you are trying to fool around in HK as a government official and don’t think you are being recorded / compromised you need to get a grip on the reality of the job. #opsecfail’
Bang!
Rex Douglas @ #612 Monday, December 17th, 2018 – 1:42 pm
Good!
Come up with one and then ask for a vote. 🙂 🙂
shellbell @ #614 Monday, December 17th, 2018 – 1:45 pm
The secret is to miss the demons off the stumps and to get something on the ones on them!! 🙂
Rex@5:34pm
What are you trying to convey?
‘Ven says:
Monday, December 17, 2018 at 5:51 pm
Rex@5:34pm
What are you trying to convey?’
That he can still suck in the unwary.
2/13
GG
How good is Test cricket!!!
BILL SHORTEN – SPEECH – OPENING ADDRESS 48TH NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY – ADELAIDE – SUNDAY, 16 DECEMBER 2018. COMPLETE WITH INNER MONOLOGUE
That’s how Gough inspired us.(old commie)
It’s what Bob taught us. (My vision of what a man really is)
It’s Paul’s big picture. (I’m glad I didn’t have to knife this rattlesnake)
Kevin’s victory. (yep. knifed him)
Julia’s determination. (knifed again)
It’s Curtin’s ‘task ahead’, it’s Chifley’s light on the hill. (don’t know much about these 2 but I would have knifed them for sure)
Could it be that some in the press gallery now realize that giving away company tax receipts as the result of a beautiful set of figures is not sustainable?
It’s great when you do it with an Aussie accent!
Looks like the Nats can’t get their story straight. It’s already a total shambles and they compound the problem by bullshitting about the basic facts.
https://twitter.com/BevanShields/status/1074553716592627712
Paine is whispering ‘G’day mate’ to the Indians.
Game over?
GG
The coverup, the coverup, the coverup…
I think it was Kallis with a blow to the head and Smith on the hand. Johnson also hospitalised Smith in Sydney later that year IIRC.
John Reidy
Earlier I posted a pdf from the OECD looking at tax takes among their members. A note they made stood out for me. Compared to the rest tax from companies is SFA and we rely far more than the great majority on wage/salary. So our companies are twice over bludgers, not paying much tax and not paying workers.
Boerwar @ #632 Monday, December 17th, 2018 – 6:03 pm
G’day Mategate!
poroti:
Likely the OECD is counting State Government taxes/duties as well in order to compare like-for-like when comparing across countries, some of which are federations and others aren’t.
Greensborough Growler @ #626 Monday, December 17th, 2018 – 1:59 pm
That was quick.
How are they going with Cash’s investigation?
‘G’day Mategate!’
Hoot of the month!
Sceptic.. The Nationals had character to lose in the first place?
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Vic Labor will be lodging an appeal to the court of disputed returns asking for a recount in Ripon @abcmelbourne #springst
I guess we know now why Smugmo did not want retrospective powers available to any anti corruption commission in light of “Mategate”.
caf
Thanks. Sounds on the mark.
With today’s revelations about Andrew Broad, it is hard not to view the Morrison Government as cursed.
Screening now, starring our very own Andrew Broad and nothing could stop him……………..
Merri Creak @ #640 Monday, December 17th, 2018 – 5:31 pm
Can’t be. His deity would not allow it.
Voter suppression writ large!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-17/voter-participation-enrolled-lingiari-snowdon-jacinta-price/10620932?pfmredir=sm
Merri Creak @ #637 Monday, December 17th, 2018 – 5:31 pm
If you believe that you make your own luck (good or bad) then this government has a genius for the bad kind.
BK @ #642 Monday, December 17th, 2018 – 2:45 pm
The price of democracy.
You can’t and shouldn’t put a price on it! 🙁
I wonder how “sugar daddy” measures up against the many politics/sex scandals that seem to occur amongst the ruling classes in the UK?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-46587984
BW
I saw an article where an unnamed Cabinet minister recently was wondering how much the voters worried about getting the budget into surplus. He asked his staffers to count all the phone calls, emails and letters in the last few months on the topic. They came back and their answer was zero!