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.
Murphy:
There’s going to be a lot of coal in Coalition MPs’ stockings this year….
McCormack presser now
AFP investigation. McCormack doesn’t sound too sure Broad won’t resign from parliament
OC
Noice!
“Labor can now legally stop Adani if this turns out to be accurate. In the meantime its delayed.”
Good news. If they have done the fast and dirty on their groundwater plan, and cant meet the regulators conditions then the project is fwarked. If Libs are in power next year they would just change the regulatory requirements. ALP creating and EPA and tightening things up makes it very unlikely they would do same. Be interesting to see if what finance Adani have now falls over??
Seems to me that Adani’s main game for a while is to try and frame their “approvals” as an asset thats worth something in and of itself. This will knock a hole in that.
Oakeshott Country @ #297 Monday, December 17th, 2018 – 11:22 am
The way I heard it, it was “eats, roots, shoots and leaves.”
Socrates@12:04pm
We need a Royal Commission on Nationals sex scandals. 🙂
Where did the ‘sugar baby’ reference come from?
@Bevan Shields
Question: Should Andrew Broad resign from Parliament?
Deputy PM Michael McCormack: “That’s a matter for Mr Broad”
#auspol
BK @ #267 Monday, December 17th, 2018 – 12:00 pm
At least he’s trying to display the first of those principles.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/16/divestment-fossil-fuel-industry-trillions-dollars-investments-carbon
Australia – and particularly Western Australia, Queensland and NSW – is heavily over-invested in fossil fuels. The LNP want to deepen this over-investment by committing taxpayer funds to coal. This is to throw good money after bad for the sake of ideological/political tokens.
We really need to diversify our economy and our national investment options.
This should be seen as a political and economic imperative.
The Liberals and the Nationals are going to absurd lengths to steal oxygen from the Labor Party National Conference.
Good to see that Mr Shorten is going after $7 billion in stolen Super. Let’s hope there is a spike in white collar jailings to go with it.
Smh is saying that it was a “sugar daddy” site – which generally ends up as prostitution doesn’t it?
The Coalition – the parties of cutout Jimmy Swaggart wannabes.
So, Mr Broad went at it like a ram in a paddock but the eew did not want to know.
Lol, just when there might have been a positive story for the govt to take up the headlines for a day or two, they lose a Minister. Can’t remember a more accident-prone outfit.
Broad might have some issues at home he needs to clear up.
Wonderful rural setting for the presser McCormack is doing 🙂
Obviously this was deliberately revealed to take attention away from the Labor Convention. ROFL.
Mr Broad did the Daddy-oh, but missed out on the sugar.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/sugar-daddy
“Unbelievable. The government tries to crank up their “better economic manager” story, and on the very day they have some legitimately good economic news to talk about in the form of a rapidly improving budget position, yet another cheating, lying hypocrite minister caught with his pants down ensures the news cycle coming into Xmas will be dominated by his antics. Shorten is blessed by fate it seems.”
Firstly they don’t have a ‘better economic manager’ story, they have lies. They don’t have a better budget position they have projections that are the work of Treasury headed by a partisan hack especially chosen for the task. Shorten starts pretty solid, if not radical enough for some of the tastes here, but in comparison it is impossible not to shine against this muppet Government.
From Urban Dictionary:
sugar baby
A young female or male who is financially pampered/cared for by a sugar daddy or sugar mama in exchange for companionship (i.e. sexual favors).
George bought his sugar baby a new iPhone, brand new lapop, and a nice flat overlooking the water after he gave her a decent humping last night.
So, the Nationals are in open competition with the Liberals to lay claim to be the natural party for women.
BW@12:28pm
LOL. Extreme lengths. That includes revealing therir ex-marital affairs and resigning from ministry.
[‘This wasn’t meant to happen, was it? Turnbull’s gone and now the real conservatives are back in charge – ready to give Australians what they want: “big stick” power, a tour bus and Aussie Flag lapel pins.’]:
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/a-young-liberal-s-lament-turnbull-s-taken-the-base-with-him-20181212-p50lqa.html
Late riser @10:29
“On or before 2019 March 30, Britain will decide for one of the following:
a) Hard Brexit
b) Soft Brexit
c) Postponed Brexit – Negotiations Continue
d) Postponed Brexit – New referendum
e) Withdrawn Brexit
f) Something else”
I think the UK is unable to decide on anything on this matter. I think the the EU will say WTTE
‘We’ve negotiated for 2 years with people who cannot be said to represent the UK. You have only three options, exit on the terms your Govt has agreed, Stay in or get out ‘ They might suggest that a truly democratic solution would be to let the people decide via an urgent referendum now they know the real choices that they have, which they didn’t 2 yrs ago. If they’re very kind they might offer to let UK stay on the current arrangements until the results of the referendum are known.
The point is , the UK Govt has no real choices in the matter, because they don’t control the Commons. Does this remind anyone of 1975 Australia? Should the crown dismiss the GOvt, and order fresh elections, in effect, force a referendum.
Nothing like a sex scandal to push economic data from the top of the news list.
McCormack has a knack of drawing out a point, doesn’t he?
Amazing what lengths the Nationals will go to to deny Labor a headline with its national conference going on.
Just for young Andy …. (Lyrics – American Dream by Crosby Stills Nash and Young)
I used to see you on every T.V
Your smiling face looked back at me
I used to see you on every T.V
Your smiling face looked back at me
Then they caught you with the girl next door
People’s money piled on the floor
Accusations that you try to deny
Revelations and rumors begin to fly
Now you think about reaching out
Try to get some help from above
Now you think about reaching out
Try to get some help from above
Reporters crowd around your house
Going through your garbage like a pack of hounds
Speculating what they may find out
It don’t matter now, you’re all washed up
Sounds a bit like political favours for donations.
Mickmac bunging on “Federal Police Investigation” mantra to avoid comment apart from Broad “did right thing” in resigning.
So, the AFP may be investigating possible blackmail by the sugar baby and possible fraud for misuse of Commonwealth funds by the sugar daddy.
Those of you who missed Broad’s scintillating contribution since September might wonder what he was doing with his time when was not going bonkers in Honkers.
He was an assistant minister to the Deputy Prime Minister.
Hopefully a request was put in for the sugar baby to come to the country as an au pair or something 🙂
So if Broad resigns from Parliament can the opposition call for a vote of no confidence even though the Parliament is in recess until next year?
Or would the GG call in the PM for a chat about whether an election be called sooner rather than later wrt confidence in the Parliament, etc.
Broad junked?
It is not even Friday, already.
He won’t resign from parliament. Not with the numbers the way they are now.
Is there anyone in Australia that believes the texts sent to one of Rupert’s propaganda slaves were really meant for someone else? How bad a scumbag do you need to be to get so angry with your own side’s propaganda machine that you send that kind of filth? And if you were really unhappy isn’t the smart thing to work up through your organisation until someone can get hold of Rupert, they probably could have had her sacked that day with the right approach.
Just when you begin to hate David Crowe again, he comes out with this beauty.
So………
Country Boy Sex Scandal on the day the govt dumps MYEFO to distract from the ALP Conference.
Certainly going to achieve the distraction objective wot!! 🙂
FFS people, you just could not get away with this if you were writing the screen-play for a political comedy. Suspension of disbelief is one thing, but the goings on of Morrison’s Muppet’s have really been pushing the outer limits of plausibility. 🙂
‘Akubra says:
Monday, December 17, 2018 at 12:41 pm
So if Broad resigns from Parliament can the opposition call for a vote of no confidence even though the Parliament is in recess until next year?
Or would the GG call in the PM for a chat about whether an election be called sooner rather than later wrt confidence in the Parliament, etc.’
I am not sure what the process is for parliament to recall itself rather than the executive recalling parliament. I believe, but I am not certain, that if a majority of parliamentarians turn up, they can open the House and get on with it. I don’t think that there is nothing in the Consitution that says that only the Executive can determine when Parliament sits – or even where.
McCormack
Re Zoidlord @12:00.
Caption: “One if these creatures eats, roots and leaves. Which one?”
I would imagine that it is entirely up to the GG, but that a letter to the GG signed by a majority of either house requesting that that house be recalled would be actioned by the GG.
Another good day followed by DISASTER for the government.