The Australian reports the first Newspoll of the year has Labor leading 53-47, compared with 55-45 in the final poll of last year. On the primary vote, the Coalition is up two to 37%, Labor is down three to 38%, the Greens are steady on 9% and One Nation are down one to 6%. Scott Morrison leads 43-36 on preferred prime minister, down from 44-36, and is down two on approval to 40% and up two on disapproval to 47%. Bill Shorten’s net rating is reported at minus 13%, compared with minus 15% in the last poll – we will have to wait for later to see his exact approval and disapproval ratings. The poll was conducted Thursday to Sunday from a sample of 1634.
UPDATE: Shorten is up a point on approval to 37% and down one on disapproval to 50%.
Dio and Itza
Thankyou altho just reading your posts gives me shivers. The thought of a GA is scarier for me so I had to give reasons why – 2 rather dramatic events years ago. Surgeon seemed OK and as we are new to the area I’ve relied on GP. It’s being done on 12th.
I really need to steel my mind to a local. Is it like the twilight zone for a colonoscopy? If so, i’ll cope. Hate the thought of making a fool of myself.
#medsonPB
jenauthor
A superbly apt metaphor.
Barney
They can’t send them home like in the old days, the parents are both at work.
The new Performing Arts Centre at the 40k a year Geelong Grammar features
automation features including:
Main forum air conditioning adaptive air flow control dependent on forum use (Assembly, Performance or Dinner).
Demand controlled ventilation and economy cycle.
Variable speed drive control of fans and pumps.
Energy monitoring.
Native BACnet Alerton BMS with high level integration to HVAC equipment.
Barney in Go Dau @ #1697 Thursday, January 31st, 2019 – 3:28 pm
Leading question. 😉
(1) With global warming the “certain temperature” would have to regularly increased to not run out of teaching days.
(2) We could walk home back then and mum would be there. With so many parents working it probably wouldn’t work.
I remember one day in primary school the temperature reached 104F. School was cancelled but we weren’t allowed to go home because that was too hot and most of us had to walk/bike a couple of miles in the sun. But the school was two storey with classrooms up top and open underneath, just three sides enclosed against the weather. Activities were organised. When school finished we went home.
lizzie @ #1702 Thursday, January 31st, 2019 – 12:36 pm
As were mine.
Isn’t independence a skill taught anymore? 🙂
On Clementine Ford and the “new” policy to respect the office of prime minister, first question, why was this policy not in place when media referred to Julia Gillard being put in a chaff bag and dropped at sea? Was she less dignified than our current Prime Muppett?
Second question, why give any respect to the “office of prime minister”? The PM is not the head of state. Constitutionally the PM is merely a go between from the GG to parliament. The office is an invention. It is no more deserving of respect than any MP.
Glad I dumped Fairfax to subscribe to the Guardian and Crikey.
Barney
I’m sure you’ve heard of helicopter parents. And 4-wheel drives just to cart them a few hundred metres. 😉
Gladys has been under pressure regarding air conditioning in public schools for some time. However she has preferred to concentrate on stadiums and toll roads.
lizzie @ #1697 Thursday, January 31st, 2019 – 3:34 pm
It’s been made before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrBdYmStZJ4&feature=youtu.be&t=135
BH
Yes it’s much the same as the sedation for a colonoscopy although the time you need sedation for is much less with a CTR because it’s really only when the local is injected that you need to be asleep. It’s a very quick, simple and effective operation.
Socrates
Respect must be shown to all LNP MPs. Labor MPs are just scum. This is Murdoch world, y’know.
U.S. intelligence chief’s message to allies around the world; you’re right and Trump is wrong.
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/world/2019/01/30/us-intelligence-chiefs-de-facto-message-allies-around-world-youre-right-trump-is-wrong/
Barney in Go Dau @ #1705 Thursday, January 31st, 2019 – 3:38 pm
Good point. The age of the child and the travel arrangements would be a consideration.
Thanks Nath. I hear they charge a pretty penny for the ol’ Native BACnet Alerton BMS with high level integration to HVAC equipment.
lizzie @ #1707 Thursday, January 31st, 2019 – 12:42 pm
Yeah, it’s one thing that amazes me when I come home and go around mates houses.
I regularly sit back and silently shake my head when I hear what they go through for their kids and then remember what we did when we were their ages. 😆
lizzie @ #1707 Thursday, January 31st, 2019 – 4:42 pm
I saw a woman drive her child to school yesterday when I was out wobbleboarding. The school was just up the hill about 200 metres away. The child was overweight. 😐
lizzie @ #1711 Thursday, January 31st, 2019 – 4:44 pm
It’s Costello World now. 🙁
You can see why Peter Costello would not really want to go back into politics.
lizzie @ #1711 Thursday, January 31st, 2019 – 12:44 pm
Born to rule, the natural Party of Government!
Personally I can’t understand their selflessness in wanting to serve, it’s not as if they need to! 😆
BH @ #1701 Thursday, January 31st, 2019 – 4:32 pm
Yes. Except, the level of sedation for a colonoscopy is often quite ‘deep’ (colonoscopies can be very ‘stimulating’ triggering unwanted body movements etc), whereas for carpal tunnel, sensation will be blocked by the local anaesthetic, so nothing is ‘felt’, and less sedation is needed, just enough to help you relax. Most are ‘rousable’, enough to reply to “How’s things BH” with “Fine, have you started yet?” and then drift back off to sleep, and swear unconsciousness when nought is remembered. Way to go! No, people do not give away family secrets or blurt out embarrassments.
Barney
And at the end of their service, the grateful nation hands them a gong.
BH, I’m no expert but in my limited experience a local with a sedative for the nerves worked for me when I had the “snip” job. Dio can give his opinion about the difference, so try to relax and keep happy thoughts, won’t know yourself in a couple of weeks.
lizzie @ #1719 Thursday, January 31st, 2019 – 12:52 pm
Well at least we know WHAT they represent!
Thanks Nath. I hear they charge a pretty penny for the ol’ Native BACnet Alerton BMS with high level integration to HVAC equipment.
$10k for a Daikin unit..
Respecting the office per se delivers fools who respect Trump, because POTUS.
I dropped Fairfax the day 9 and Costello rode into town.
Why is the preparation for a colonscopy the worse tasting thing ever?
Puff
I find it so hard to believe that the politicians ignored the scientists and supported the irrigators instead of the river. There was a massive push against the science.
William Bowe says:
Thursday, January 31, 2019 at 4:46 pm
Thanks Nath. I hear they charge a pretty penny for the ol’ Native BACnet Alerton BMS with high level integration to HVAC equipment.
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They do! Enough to cool a thousand public school classrooms!
https://www.honeywell.com/buildings/automation-systems
Cat
Don’t they call their promotion rule the “Peter (Costello) Principle”?
I was also thinking further about this story that bankers are bracing for prosecutions from the RC report. If true, how do they know? It hasn’t been released. Have they seen it?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-31/banking-industry-bracing-for-27live-possibility27-royal-commi/10766012
I had assumed the guvurnmint was holding onto it to give time to prepare their own face saving response when releasing it. But what if the time is to allow their paymasters to do the same?
Shellbell
I was told I could add lemon cordial or something. It wasn’t the taste, it was the sheer volume. Not being a beer drinker, I failed the last litre or so.
Shellbell
But it is lemon flavored 😀
BOM issued a warning for Sydney for the arrival of a “Southerly Buster”.
Hi again
I posted earlier about Labor’s tax policies and then got dragged away, so I was unable to respond to subsequent comments, which were more or less what I expected: these are much-needed reforms, Labor shouldn’t sneak its way into government with a small target strategy but stand up for what it believes in, if the Australian people are stupid enough to vote Liberal because of these policies then they deserve what they get, etc., etc.
I beg to differ, particularly in relation to the dividend imputation changes. This is not an issue that had ever received a lot of consideration at a political level prior to Shorten and Bowen raising it last year. In the past, it had been a bipartisan policy: Labor was strongly supportive of it when it was introduced by Howard, almost to the point of claiming that it was their idea which the Libs had stolen from Labor. It was introduced with the goal of giving self-funded retirees with no other taxable income than share dividends a similar benefit to that enjoyed by wage and salary earners who own shares. While I don’t think that was a strong enough reason for the government to forego so much revenue don’t think it’s by any means the worst rort going around (eg, compared to income-splitting through family trusts).
There are a lot of self-funded retirees who are going to be affected by this who, while you and I might perceive them as being relatively well off if not rich, perceive themselves to be battlers. These people have brothers and sisters and sons and daughters. All together they represent a sizeable constituency of disaffected people.
The smart political move would have been to drop the policy last year, or at least to promise to grandparent it for shares bought before a certain date. Instead, Bowen has told disaffected people to go and vote Liberal if they wish. With all due respect to Bowen – of whom I’m generally a fan – this seems to me to have been a bit of a gaffe. It’s certainly given the Libs and the unsupportive elements of the media a quote to use against him over and over again in future.
It doesn’t seem to me that anything of enormous policy significance hangs on this issue. I’d rank it way below things like climate change, banking reform, stimulating wages growth and even (though I’m far from supportive of them), Labor’s proposed changes to neg gearing and CGT.
There’s a risk that the debate on the issue is just going to drag on and on and put more and more pressure on Labor until they are forced to back down. IMO, it would have been best for them to drop it last year when Turnbull was dumped. It’s possibly not too late to drop it now. There’s a significant risk and relatively little political reward in persevering with it .
nath
Pretty sure that our local Performance Centre, paid for by the Rudd/Gillard government, and used by three local schools, has most of those. They’re pretty standard in the school buildings provided under the GFC program.
Shellbell @ #1724 Thursday, January 31st, 2019 – 4:56 pm
Please change the subject! I have one coming up in a few weeks and I don”t want to think about the preparations… 😉
I thought it was a high end building automation unit that was pretty new, anyway.
The list of preselection candidates for Higgins is out, btw. No sign of Peter Costello.
His old spinal condition must be playing up.
Shit!!
https://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/news/national/irrigation-water-prices-spike-as-speculators-buy-up-big/news-story/51405cb21b36dc8d59e4f7b0877a12c9
lizzie says:
If you ask how much money scientists donate to the Nats and how much irrigators $donate$ to the Barnyards of the world then it is easy peasy.
Still remember the crisis of being at the “tail end” of the pre-colonscopy purge while needing to supervise a child and her friend at the park.
Clench a little, sweat a bit more and pray a lot.
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Thursday, January 31, 2019 at 5:00 pm
nath
Pretty sure that our local Performance Centre, paid for by the Rudd/Gillard government, and used by three local schools, has most of those. They’re pretty standard in the school buildings provided under the GFC program.
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Do you know if they keep stats on public school with/or without air conditioning in classrooms. at my school the only room with air condition was the computer room. but that was 20 years ago I suppose. It was incredibly hard to study in February, I remember that.
lizzie @ #1727 Thursday, January 31st, 2019 – 12:57 pm
If anything good can come out this, this could be it.
It highlights how dismissing science can quickly bite you on the bum.
Any politician dismissing scientific consensus should be met with the words “Murray-Darling” and told to shut up.
Shellbell
You are very brave to venture further than a hop step and jump from the toilet during prep.. 🙂
zoomster @ #1738 Thursday, January 31st, 2019 – 5:04 pm
So which of the three ‘real’ candidates will get it?
Don’t the people of Australia own the water in the MDB. If so go tell Duxton, Blue Sky & Aware to fark off.
zoomster @ #1740 Thursday, January 31st, 2019 – 1:04 pm
Anyone out of Michael, Greg and Jeremy sound good! 😆
Tom @ #1776 Thursday, January 31st, 2019 – 4:01 pm
Here you go:
https://vimeo.com/24340828