The addition of this week’s Newspoll and Essential Research polls have ended a period of improvement for the Coalition in BludgerTrack, which records a solid shift to Labor this week. Labor’s two-party lead is now 53.8-46.2, out from 53.1-46.9 last week, and they have made two gains on the seat projection, one in New South Wales and one in Queensland. Despite that, the Newspoll leadership numbers have resulted in an improvement in Scott Morrison’s reading on the net approval trend. Full results are available through the link below – if you can’t get the state breakdown tabs to work, try doing a hard refresh.
National polling news:
• A poll result from Roy Morgan circulated earlier this week, although there’s no mention of it on the company’s website. The primary votes are Labor 36%, Coalition 34.5% and Greens 12.5%, which pans out to a Labor lead of 54-46 using past preference flows (thanks Steve777). Morgan continues to conduct weekly face-to-face polling, but the results are only made public when Gary Morgan has a point to make – which on this occasion is that Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party is on all of 1%. One Nation doesn’t do great in the poll either, recording 3%. The poll was conducted over two weekends from a sample of 1673.
• The Australian had supplementary questions from this week’s Newspoll on Tuesday, which had Scott Morrison favoured over Bill Shorten by 48-33 on the question of best leader handle the economy – little different from his 50-32 lead in October, or the size of the lead consistently held by Malcolm Turnbull. It also found 33% saying the government should prioritise funding of services, compared with 27% for cutting personal income tax and 30% for paying down debt.
• The Australian also confused me by publishing, together with the Newspoll voting intention numbers on Monday, results on franking credits and “reducing tax breaks for investors” – derived not from last weekend’s poll, but earlier surveys in December and November (UPDATE: Silly me – the next column along is the total from the latest poll). The former found 48% opposed to Labor’s franking credits policy and 30% in support, compared with 50% and 33% when it was first floated in March (UPDATE: So the latest poll actually has support back up five to 35% and opposition down two to 38%). Respondents were instructed that the policy was “expected to raise $5.5 billion a year from around 900,000 Australians that receive income from investments in shares”, which I tend to think is friendlier to Labor than a question that made no effort to explain the policy would have been. The tax breaks produced a stronger result for Labor, with 47% in favour and 33% opposed, although this was down on 54% and 28% in April (UPDATE: Make that even better results for Labor – support up four to 51%, opposition down one to 32%).
With due recognition of Kevin Bonham’s campaign against sketchy reports of seat polling, let the record note the following:
• Ben Packham of The Australian reports Nationals polling shows them in danger of losing Page to Labor and Cowper to Rob Oakeshott. Part of the problem, it seems, is a minuscule recognition rating for the party’s leader, one Michael McCormack.
• There’s a uComms/ReachTEL poll of Flinders for GetUp! doing the rounds, conducted on Wednesday from a sample of 634, which has Liberal member Greg Hunt on 40.7%, an unspecified Labor candidate on 29.4% and ex-Liberal independent Julia Banks on 16.1%. That would seem to put the result down to the wild card of Banks’ preference flows. There was apparently a respondent-allocated two-party figure with the result, but I haven’t seen it. UPDATE: Turns out it was 54-46 in favour of Greg Hunt, which seems a bit much.
• The West Australian reported last weekend that a uComms/ReachTel poll for GetUp! had Christian Porter leading 52-48 in Pearce, which is above market expectations for him.
• Another week before, The West Australian reported Labor internal polling had it with a 51.5-48.5 lead in Stirling.
Preselection news:
• Following Nigel Scullion’s retirement announcement last month, the Northern Territory News reports a field of eight nominees for his Country Liberal Party Senate seat: Joshua Burgoyne, an Alice Springs electrician, who was earlier preselected for the second position on the ticket behind Scullion; Bess Price, who held the remote seat of Stuart in the territory parliament from 2012 to 2016, and whose high-profile daughter Jacinta Price is the party’s candidate for Lingiari; Tony Schelling, a financial adviser; Tim Cross, former general manager of NT Correctional Industries; Gary Haslett, a Darwin councillor; Kris Civitarese, deputy mayor of Tennant Creek; Linda Fazldeen, from the Northern Territory’s Department of Trade, Business and Innovation; and Bill Yan, general manager at the Alice Springs Correctional Centre.
• Andrew Burrell of The Australian reports Liberal nominees to succeed Michael Keenan in Stirling include Vince Connelly, Woodside Petroleum risk management adviser and former army officer; Joanne Quinn, a lawyer for Edith Cowan University; Michelle Sutherland, a teacher and the wife of Michael Sutherland, former state member for Mount Lawley; Georgina Fraser, a 28-year-old “oil and gas executive”; and Taryn Houghton, “head of community engagement at a mental health service, HelpingMinds”. No further mention of Tom White, general manager of Uber in Japan and a former adviser to state MP and local factional powerbroker Peter Collier, who was spruiked earlier. The paper earlier reported that Karen Caddy, a former Rio Tinto engineer, had her application rejected after state council refused to give her the waiver required for those who were not party members of one year’s standing.
• The Nationals candidate for Indi is Mark Byatt, a Wodonga-based manager for Regional Development Victoria.
Good morning Dawn Patrollers.
The London Daily Telegraph says that Trump is gearing up for the next hammer blow to global trade. He’s barking mad!
https://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/trump-is-gearing-up-for-the-next-hammer-blow-to-global-trade-20190216-p50y7o.html
Meanwhile Angela Merkel has turned her fire on America’s “home alone” policies, saying multilateral bodies cannot simply be smashed up, and warned the US president, Donald Trump, that Europe must not be excluded from discussions on future nuclear disarmament, Syria or trade.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/16/angela-merkel-criticises-us-isolationism-urging-win-win-solutions
Rick Goodman tells us that Bill Shorten has questioned the sincerity of Senator Michaelia Cash’s court evidence about an investigation into alleged union wrongdoings.
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/i-m-sure-she-believes-it-shorten-questions-sincerity-of-cash-s-awu-evidence-20190216-p50ya6.html
Katharine Murphy says that It may be risky for Labor to open up a point of difference on asylum seekers – but it’s time to call out self-serving bullshit. She’s plainly had enough!
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/feb/16/without-facts-we-slide-into-trumpism-the-truth-matters-here
This week, John Wren catches up on Tony Abbott, gives us the details on Tim Wilson’s corruption and also the Medevac Bill passing.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/wrens-week-abbotts-fantasy-world-wilsons-corruption-and-medevac,12380
Ross Gittins examines our current state of “secular stagnation” and reaches the conclusion that a new kind of micro reform that, by increasing the income to those likely to spend a higher proportion of it, is needed.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/stagnation-spanner-in-the-works-the-tradesman-you-need-to-call-is-keynes-20190215-p50y06.html
“Just when you think politics can’t get any lower, someone introduces a bodily fluid”, says Jacqui Maley.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/just-when-you-think-politics-can-t-get-any-lower-someone-introduces-a-bodily-fluid-20190215-p50y2h.html
Ian Warden has a tongue in cheek look at what the future might hold for Morrison after a lost election.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/will-heathens-see-scomo-s-missionary-zeal-20190215-p50y27.html
Out-of-work Australians have complained that private job service providers offered them cash and petrol to lie about their employment status to help falsely claim incentive payments. Ain’t privatisation grand!
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/feb/16/job-seekers-allegedly-offered-cash-to-lie-by-private-employment-service-providers
In an email to the Liberal party’s administrative committee, conservative warrior Karina Okotel has been accused of “malicious” behaviour by some sections of the Young Liberal movement, who also warned that having “middle-aged activists” politicking in such a manner could drive away membership and undercut the party’s chances at the federal election.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/young-libs-accuse-party-vice-president-of-malicious-behaviour-20190216-p50y98.html
Meanwhile four Young Liberals have been kicked out of the NSW Liberal Party for making lewd comments about women in an online chat group meant for election campaigning. That organisation certainly attracts some nice types.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/politics/nsw/young-liberals-booted-from-party-for-lewd-comments-about-women-20190216-p50y8f.html
Jacob Saulwick says that the NSW government seems to have abandoned the prospect of principled reform – the promise it made at the last election.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/gobbledygook-and-doublespeak-how-gladys-gang-is-failing-sydney-on-planning-20190214-p50xto.html
A former press secretary of Tony Abbott writes that voters know the PM is fair dinkum about boats. A good breakfast purgative.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-authenticity-factor-voters-know-pm-is-fair-dinkum-about-boats-20190215-p50y3j.html
Morrison has sent out a fresh message on border security, saying “people smugglers know they won’t get through me and Peter Dutton” but would “have a crack” if Bill Shorten became prime minister.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/feb/16/scott-morrison-says-people-smugglers-will-have-a-crack-if-labor-is-elected
Bridget McKenzie was photographed puffing out her face and rubbing her stomach next to a banner advertising the obesity summit. Great effort Bridget!
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/sport-minister-sorry-for-appearing-to-make-fun-of-overweight-people-20190216-p50yat.html
Sally Whyte reports that A private company tasked with security vetting government officials has four foreign-born directors, raising concerns about government oversight of its vetting program.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/politics/federal/foreign-born-directors-of-security-vetting-companies-cause-concern-20190215-p50xz3.html
An expedited canonical process found the former cardinal and archbishop of Washington guilty of sexually abusing minors and adult seminarians over decades. See, it CAN be done!
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/world/europe/pope-defrocks-theodore-mccarrick-ex-cardinal-accused-of-sexual-abuse-20190217-p50ybf.html
John Elder asks, “Has Donald Trump proved himself to be the glove puppet of America’s biggest loudmouth media star, Sean Hannity?”
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2019/02/16/trump-puppet-of-fox-star/
The former lord mayor of Melbourne, Robert Doyle, has withdrawn his Supreme Court injunction blocking Melbourne City Council from releasing its investigation into allegations he sexually harassed a woman at a 2016 event. But the council is now claiming it cannot release its investigation report because of a complaint by the woman to Victoria Police over Mr Doyle’s behaviour.
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/doyle-withdraws-injunction-on-second-harassment-report-20190215-p50y6k.html
Customer service failed to get a guernsey in Commissioner Hayne’s Final Report and herein lies the problem, says Kim Wingerei. In the competitive landscape of tomorrow, being accountable only to shareholders leaves the customer stranded. In Part 2, he calls on the next federal government to abandon the policies of the past, including the “four pillars”.
https://www.michaelwest.com.au/haynes-final-impressive-tinkering-but-big-banking-flaws-remain-part-2/
Melissa Price is being called the “invisible minister”, the cabinet member responsible for the environment who is accused of “disinterest” during Australia’s summer of natural disasters and record-breaking heatwaves. One of the worst ministerial appointments ever!
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/feb/16/the-invisible-minister-melissa-price-accused-of-going-missing-on-the-environment
ANZ is investigating a multi-million-dollar fraud against its travel-card business, much of which is outsourced to troubled payments processor Wirecard, amid fears the swindle could be an inside job.
https://www.outline.com/8hFS8g
Why is abortion such a rime in South Australia?
https://www.outline.com/NCbRKa
Yet another mass shooting in the Land of the Free.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/man-guns-down-five-shortly-after-being-fired-illinois-police-say-20190217-p50ybh.html
Cartoon Corner
From Matt Golding.
Mark David and Mr Shouty.
Reg Lynch and the One Nation blood feud.
Zanetti goes to Queensland.
From the US.
BK
Good morning.
So relieved to know the source of the “bodily fluid” smeared on Hanson’s door. 😉
lizzie
I, too, entertained lurid thoughts.
On last nights subject of Stones green ginger wine or Stones Mac. A way I occasionally drink the latter is to neck a stubbie of your favourite amber brew, top up with Stones Mac and enjoy. A bottle of Stones will last for a carton of stubbies. Anybody that decides to try this concoction, don’t over indulge. You’ll end up with a hangover you won’t believe.
Bert
My mother, who considered herself a teetotaller, in her nineties developed a taste for a small glass of “ginger wine” in the evening, no doubt believing that it was a harmless stimulant to the appetite.
FARK Tony Abbott and Lucien Aye.
Doesn’t this sound familiar ?
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Wireless carriers are working hard to talk up 5G (Fifth Generation) wireless as the future of broadband. But don’t be fooled—they are only trying to focus our attention on 5G to try to distract us from their willful failure to invest in a proven ultrafast option for many Americans: fiber to the home, or FTTH.
A recent FCC report on competition found that the future of high-speed broadband for most Americans will be a cable monopoly. Without a plan to promote fiber to the home, that’s not likely to change. In fact, because the 5G upgrade relies on fiber infrastructure, even 5G will be possibly limited to areas that already have FTTH – meaning, they already have a competitive landscape and, therefore, better service. The rest of us get monopolistic slow lanes.
Regulators and policymakers focusing only on 5G wireless are setting us up to fail.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02/enough-5g-hype
lizzie @ #606 Sunday, February 17th, 2019 – 7:11 am
Bless her cotton socks. 🙂
This made me cringe.
ScoMo is suddenly a fan of growing more trees. This is presumably his stunt for the day.
“I’m interested in growing more trees and growing more jobs, it’s as simple as that,” the prime minister said.”
https://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/i-m-interested-in-growing-more-trees-pm-announces-12-5m-forestry-boost-20190216-p50yan.html
I wonder if Barrie Cassidy will ask Christian Porter about the Paladin Group? Porter’s on the National Security Committee of Cabinet isn’t he? They must have discussed the contract generally in Cabinet if not there.
Also I’d love a so-called journalist to delve into the extremist religious aspects.
Meanwhile on the education front.
Under the needs-based funding reforms, over-paid independent schools should have their funding brought down to the Schooling Resource Standard benchmark over the next 10 years, and under-funded public schools should have their funding increased.
But last year, the federal government announced an extra $170.8 million would be spent in 2019 to ensure no private school lost any government funding
Oakhill College will receive almost $500,000, while St Scholastica’s, Loreto Kirribilli and St Aloysius College will all get more than $350,000 in so-called low growth payments, according to figures released under Freedom of Information.
https://outline.com/cP3fhV
You can’t grow trees without water and the correct environment and nutrients, and dare I say it, Climate, to grow them in. Otherwise you plant them and then they just die.
C@tmomma @ #424 Saturday, February 16th, 2019 – 7:21 pm
Maybe you should just go back and read what the moderator said last time he chastised you!
Cost in PNG.
Lizzie
Just when I changed my gravatar away from the tin foil hat –
Is this the one that made you cringe ❓
If so
Continuing on the theme I noted a day or so ago where expert “miners” declared a need for more coal digging (gasping for air); I presume that grave diggers would ask for a burst of grave digging – so perhaps our “potty” people are unsure of who or what to plant.
Is that convoluted enough ❓
C@tmomma
A few years back I was slightly involved with a soil carbon project. I went to some ‘tree’ conference and remember one of the Men of the Trees leaders explaining one big fly in the ointment for planting lots of trees for carbon capture. He showed a map of the places where large scale tree planting was viable and overlaid it with our agricultural areas. not surprisingly they overlapped. So it was one or the other. That was without taking into account climate change !
Barwon is looking a likely npa loss………… who wins I don’t know…. but Labor can improve their vote in Broken Hill and areas like Cobar and Bourke which will put them in the hunt
poroti
Stopping the clearing/felling of native timber would be more helpful.
KayJay
I tried to convert the pic, but failed. Thanks 🙂
KayJay
Scotty is nearly nailing the look. He needs to borrow a couple of Security Simians from Herr Kartoffelkopfbesitzer.
If its good enough for The Donald then its good enough for them:
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/us/2019/02/15/orange-alligators-south-carolina-mxp-vpx.hln
poroti,
I was going to add that, if a farmer said they wanted the land for growing crops instead of trees that they would tell Scooter to naff off! and go plant his trees on the bit of scrub that won’t grow anything he wants to grow. 😐
Dutton has been raging at Cassidy on Twitter this week, accusing him of ignoring facts.
Ven @ #9888 Sunday, February 17th, 2019 – 1:11 am
Abrams was the model for Zevon’s song “the Envoy” – fits.
Looking at the High Vis vest Morrison has on, it says ‘Forico’ on it. So I think I can correctly assume that he is only interested in the planting of trees to make money. I’d say ‘Forico’ is short for Forestry Investment Company.
lizzie,
I’m sure that, in the Kellyanne Conway mould, Peter Dutton has his own ‘facts’. They don’t necessarily equate with the truth.
What a pity about Insiders , they could have asked our Uber Tuber about this effort.
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Government attempting to deport Indigenous man to New Zealand
The Australian government is attempting to deport another Indigenous man to New Zealand, …………“They want to kick me out of my own country,” he said. “I came here when I was two.”
“My mum is Aboriginal – she’s from South Australia. All my kids are Aboriginal, my missus is Aboriginal, and they’re trying to send me to a foreign country.”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/feb/17/government-attempting-to-deport-indigenous-man-to-new-zealand
https://morningconsult.com/2019/02/14/to-weigh-the-chances-of-a-third-party-look-to-the-2016-voters-who-feel-adrift/
I wonder if John Kasich will run. He said he would only do so if he could win, so presumably not.
Lizzie, re Paladin affair,
Yes, it is not mentioned on any other news media, Except ABC News.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-16/laura-tingle-parliaments-dying-days-two-things-overlooked/10816816
This is an article by Laura Tingle, who also works for the AFR, which published the original story. She is also a regular on Phlip Adams’ Late Night Live.
Philip Adams had Angus Grigg, AFR reporter who wrote the original story, on to discuss it.
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/paladins-rich-manus-contract/10813492
Wikipedia does list a Paladin Group, but does not say it’s the same one as we have here. That one is positively frightening.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paladin_Group
It looks like Paladin is make a monthly profit of $17M.
So why aren’t Fairfax and Murdoch onto it?
Sorry, stupid question.
KayJay says:
Sunday, February 17, 2019 at 7:55 am
Lizzie
Just when I changed my gravatar away from the tin foil hat –
Is this the one that made you cringe ❓
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Reminds of this one where Morrison is sucking up to the Monash group of 20 back benchers who are pro coal mining to try and save Turnbull’s butt –
Liberal MP Craig Kelly confirmed in April 2018 that a group of 20 Coalition backbenchers has created the Monash Forum to encourage the government to support the coal industry, warning against the “demonisation” of coal.
The group is named after the first world war general John Monash, owing to his role in opening up Victoria’s Latrobe Valley for coal production. Chairman of the government’s backbench committee on the environment and energy, Kelly told Guardian Australia the group’s position will add to pressure for government support for new coal-fired power. Kelly said.
“One of the aims of the group is to emphasise the importance of coal-fired generation. Coal is demonised by a large section of the community – that demonisation is incorrect, because coal is absolutely vital to the national economy both for export and the generation of cheap, reliable electricity.”
And now Morrison tells us he is prepared to underwrite the development of new dispatchable energy projects including coal mining. Those trees won’t do much good under his watch.
poroti @ #620 Sunday, February 17th, 2019 – 8:06 am
Red and yellow and pink and green —
Colour me bewildered. Where can I get one a them hats ❓ I could keep a sandwich and my drink bottle in one.
I love the smiling faces – reminds me of the old “”shit”cried the fairy queen” jokes.
I think I had better relax as best I can while I work through Mr. BK’s Dawn Patrol. ✔😎
Forico
As Tasmania’s largest private forestry management company, Forico represents the transition into a new era in plantation forestry in Tasmania
https://forico.com.au/vision
poroti
The treatment of these men is disgusting. Just cruelty for cruelty’s sake. Just like in detention on islands.
Always enjoy going down the rabbit holes of the links you give us DTT.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51107.htm of course goes to one of your favourites a site that certainly lives up to it’s motto of “News you won’t find on CNN or FOXNEWS” but is careful is always use the disclaimer “The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Information Clearing House.”
This story comes from 21st Century Wire an organisation whose Executive Editor & Founder, Patrick Henningsen, as listed in Sourcewatch includes:
Biographical Information
From 2011: “Patrick Henningsen is an author and founder of the 21st Century Wire news website, an Associate Editor of alternative news site Infowars.com and regular geopolitical analyst for Russia Today.” [1]
He writes for Consortium News.
So the story comes from an organisation run by a guy with links to Infowar’s nutcase Alex Jones and RT.
Want to try to sell us another bridge I’m not buying this one?
Here’s that wedge Rahm Emanuel said the Democrats should apply to the Republicans over Trump’s fake national emergency.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/02/16/trumps-declaration-national-emergency-faces-political-legal-challenges/?utm_term=.9826e81a5698
An Indigenous Man is more Australian than any of the White Men and Women in the Coalition government who think they are supreme!
Has anyone asked Bess Price, Jacinta Price, Ken Wyatt or Warren Mundine what they think about the Coalition government wanting to deport an Indigenous Man to NZ?
KayJay @ #632 Sunday, February 17th, 2019 – 8:18 am
I think the big hat thing came from the Soviets with Kim’s grandfather.
Thoughts on the election being fought on refugees policy?
Liberal mouthpiece on ABC saying the clear cut argument will help them ; i am aprehensive and concerned that this is the case.
Even if they lie (Children overboard / no boats / refugees are ‘illegal and dangerous ‘) they are lies that cut through.
Hate to admit but Labor may also need a cut through with another mediscare…….even if there was more truth to that.
The impact on polls should become more evident over the next month
Commercial news played a bit of Morrison’s “secret” message to people smugglers (relayed through Murdoch media naturally). Of course, opening Christmas Island detention camp and shouting about how all people smugglers are poised to commenced business after the medivac vote, might take the edge off Morrison’s shouty message!
Also, presumably it’s only aimed at boat people, not aeroplane people!
Wasn’t Ken Wyatt at one stage under a S44 cloud? Demonstrating yet again the irrelevance of S44 in today’s world.
EB
Sunday, February 17th, 2019 – 8:17 am
Comment #631
Examining this very fine photograph in detail we find ⏬
A keen observer would immediately pounce on the possibility of a quick dollar or three —
The Despatch Boxes are made of rosewood and decorated with silver and enamel. They are hinged and lockable.
Question – are the boxes still as designed – has the silver been replaced with base metal ❓
As for talk of Mr. Turnbull’s butt – can we just plug it please ❓ 🐴 Horse face – can’t find an emoji for the other end. 😍
As bad as Trump is here is a reminder of the far more damaging and dangerous presidential era that is still playing out.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176527/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_hail%2C_caesar%21/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-trump-organizations-latest-wreck-may-be-its-most-humiliating-yet/2019/02/15/eb62c4bc-3155-11e9-813a-0ab2f17e305b_story.html?utm_term=.0d9ca920d76c
I have no idea how the AS issue will play out. To me , it feels at the moment like 2007. Morrison and co have been too successful for their own good. No boats. Thoughts move onto the humanitarian side.
After the legislation passed Parliament last week Morrison was jumping up and down last week going hyper over any boat arrival will be the fault of Bill Shorten alone. No one else.
Now, Morrison is jumping up and down going hyper over how he and Dutton will not let a boat through. He has now taken full responsibility. 180 degree back flip.
The man is a idiot.
So, if a boat does arrive ( unlikely) Scott “ ring of steel” Morrison will be responsible and he has dragged Dutton into it as well. Something I am sure Dutton is not too happy being associated with.
Meanwhile, Shorten will move along taking every opportunity to point out the thousands arriving by plane.
I would also think that when the initial small number of AS arrive from Nauru and Manus for treatment and people see how sick they are then the human element of all this may become a bit more prominent.
We shall see.
https://japantoday.com/category/politics/japan-to-recognise-indigenous-ainu-people-for-first-time#.XGiBtK98aWg.twitter
Hey @Upnorth
Whats the bet Frecklington will get the boot sometime this year, replaced by faithful Deputy Tim Mander? As for AP,the word is that Trad is considered too,umm, forthright to take on the leadership, while Anna, while generally considered rather bland, is far more acceptable to many Qlders. The LNP however, like most Conservative Parties in Australia, isn’t overrunning with bright Leadership candidates.
This poll result is pretty reasonable for a State Government halfway through its second term,one would think.
Is Scooter’s message, translated into 15 languages, being broadcast on airplanes flying to Australia as well?
Only a PR hack could write:
Truly.
From the BK Files.
A former press secretary of Tony Abbott writes that voters know the PM is fair dinkum about boats. A good breakfast purgative.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-authenticity-factor-voters-know-pm-is-fair-dinkum-about-boats-20190215-p50y3j.html
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An overly quick glance at the header would tend to think this was an interesting story about goats and as such caught my interest because my dear wife often called me a goat (she liked goats). Doomed (I say) to disappointment I am left lamenting, wondering just how high can BS be stacked and thinking of that old time hymn.
**Drifting too far from the shore.
Here endeth the lesson – time for Insiders. 😇
Good morning Bushfire Bill.