Newspoll have held off this week owing to the New South Wales election, resulting in one of the occasional three week gaps in their schedule. However, the fortnightly Essential Research will come through as normal this (i.e. Monday) evening. In other non-New South Wales news, moderate faction nominee and Christopher Pyne ally James Stewart won the Liberal preselection for Sturt on Saturday, consistent with expectations and despite resistance from conservatives who sought to make hay from the fact that the moderates had chosen not to back a woman. We also have a front page headline in The Australian this morning that reads, “Gladys triumph: PM eyes May 11”. Beyond that, over to you.
Monday morning madness
Sturt preselection and election date talk – but above all, a new venue for general discussion of the political situation.
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Over. Roger — Wilco etc. 😎 even though we have had a little rain this morning in Newcastle.
Itzadream – I’ve read that Lachlan is an even bigger right-wing nutjob than his father. James is the more liberal one.
No prizes for guessing.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/25/out-of-line-top-australian-companies-accused-of-undermining-paris-deal
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/dec/05/australian-mining-giants-may-be-breaking-law-by-ignoring-climate-change-risks
It seems Barr’s summary of the Mueller report raises more questions than it answers. It will now be up to Congress to summon the full report and make it public.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/24/what-barrs-letter-about-mueller-report-says-doesnt-say/?utm_term=.f3cea9245133
antonbruckner11 @ #25 Monday, March 25th, 2019 – 8:55 am
Which one appeared at the inquiry into phone hacking giving an impression of being an Olympic quality BS artist with the ability to talk under a metre or more of wet concrete ❓
KayJay – MANY THANKS!
antonbruckner11 @ #52 Monday, March 25th, 2019 – 8:55 am
Likewise. It was therefore interesting to hear the questioner (there’s a video in the link) credit him with being a social liberal which Lachlan didn’t correct, predictably, but then go on to expose himself to be a hypocritical defender of Fox’s extreme intolerance by exhorting tolerance. (I’m repeating myself.)
If Barnaby Joyce was serious from showing the public that the national party is not a syndicate of the liberal party , the most intelligent thing to do is breakaway from the liberal party , by not supporting the libs when they are in office for example nsw government
The problem for Morrison in addition to everything else, is that the Nationals are under threat and will act accordingly. As of Saturday evening the Coalition is dissolved.
The NSW Nationals leader said, yes we lost seats but we retained government ‘which is the main game’.
lizzie @ #10 Monday, March 25th, 2019 – 5:02 am
I don’t know either way, but it would not surprise me if you are right. Privatisation puts profits before people. It has to.
Pell’s character – evil bastard.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/he-is-not-to-be-pitied-reliving-the-melbourne-response-and-pell-s-20190321-p516d2.html
“The family remain astounded that no one senior from the Church – not their local priest, much less Pell – phoned or held a meeting with them.
“We were known enough in the area and in the Church … and we were just left out in the cold,” Jennifer said.
They had shared meals with Pell and yet he never once reached out after Jennifer’s case emerged.
“If he was the man he’s made himself out to be and who we expected him to be, where was the compassion? Where was the Christianity?” Jennifer said.”
Late Riser,
52 -48 for me please for both polls.
I continue to feel Eeyore-ish about matters political.
Lizzie, you only have to look at Ch7 – Pauline Hanson, Mark Latham, Barnaby Joyce, Ray Hadley are all regulars; with just an occasional sane contributor.
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51-49 for me
Late Riser:
I gave my Newspoll prediction thinking there’d be a Newspoll today, therefore I might change it closer to the time the poll is scheduled.
Confessions @ #68 Monday, March 25th, 2019 – 8:24 am
No worries, life is change. 🙂
Late Riser @ #62 Monday, March 25th, 2019 – 9:09 am
And as was pointed out the other day, the Govt then spruiks itself as being fabulously low taxing while in fact the citizen is being ‘taxed’ to use the for-profit services that Govt once and still should be providing.
Zoidlord @ #67 Monday, March 25th, 2019 – 8:22 am
I have your guess down for Newspoll but let me know if you meant Essential, or both. 🙂
I will go with 52-48 at this time. I will be really happy to see 53-47 though.
ItzaDream @ #71 Monday, March 25th, 2019 – 8:27 am
They broke the contract. Jonathan Pie, at 2:48.
https://youtu.be/-IL2XwSkFJQ?t=168
Rant about Brexit, but also applies to Australia.
I can’t see the SFF offering any heroic solutions for the farmers. A protest vote, but false hope there. The corporatisation of the land ahead of the onslaught of climate change has left the relatively small farmer with no where to go, except leave.
My niece has a significant holding in the Riverina. They are looking at Ballarat and other business options. One boy has a learning difficulty, so schooling is another factor, but they are literally being driven off the land which they can handle sensibly in the face of the writing on the wall, without financial loss at the moment, and with other skills to fall back on.
Quick note on poll guesses.
By default I put your guess towards the next poll, which at the moment is Essential. Just let me know if you are guessing for Newspoll, or something else.
Late Riser @ #73 Monday, March 25th, 2019 – 9:33 am
Yes, he nails it. The election of Labor federally is critical. We are well down the slippery slope.
This was further down my link!!
I’m changing my 53/47 to 50/50 (Newspoll)
To paraphrase the Beatles; I’ve got a Bad Feeling.
mundo @ #79 Monday, March 25th, 2019 – 8:44 am
Just checking you’re guessing for Newspoll, since 53/47 was your Newspoll guess. ?
booleanbach https://www.pollbludger.net/2019/03/24/monday-morning-madness/comment-page-1/#comment-3110154 – there is an anti-vaxer style reaction by many on here when SFF are mentioned. Policies and facts don’t matter so I rarely bother posting anything.
The party is centrist and apart from briefly flirting with the Libs, and being shafted, in 2012 have had a steadying influence on NSW politics.
What i did not realise until yesterdays Insiders was that Laura Tingle is John Tingles daughter, the SFF founder.
Keyman,
My problem with the SFF is that they want to relax our gun laws (they are already too relaxed in my opinion) and I thought they wanted to do away with most of the marine parks & reserves. The article say they want to freeze them at the current extent – which I am OK with. This should be based on marine research which shows how marine parks allow for the breeding & restocking of the ocean’s fish; so the more the better as far as I am concerned. At least there should be sufficient acreage(?) to keep numbers from declining.
Boerwar
says:
Monday, March 25, 2019 at 7:42 am
Cat
Good on you.
Goll
says:
Monday, March 25, 2019 at 7:51 am
C@tmomma
‘Vow of silence’
Good onya
briefly
says:
Monday, March 25, 2019 at 8:03 am
C@t…..good on you…good to see…
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Oh please. This praise for 1 ‘day of silence’ after what happened yesterday are just vomitous.
mundo says:
Are you related to Marvin in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ? 🙂
Nice analysis:
http://www.tallyroom.com.au/38051
Looks like the ALP got lots of small swings – not enough to make a real difference though.
Australia – take note The Trump administration touts weapons spending as the best way to bolster the American economy. It’s not.
https://www.thenation.com/article/pentagon-spending-is-a-poor-job-creator/
And the US makes all (or most) of its weapons at home, not in bits & pieces like us.
Infrastructure spending gives far more bang-for-buck it would seem.
booleanbach says: Monday, March 25, 2019 at 10:03 am
Australia – take note The Trump administration touts weapons spending as the best way to bolster the American economy. It’s not.
https://www.thenation.com/article/pentagon-spending-is-a-poor-job-creator/
And the US makes all (or most) of its weapons at home, not in bits & pieces like us.
Infrastructure spending gives far more bang-for-buck it would seem.
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Excellent opinion piece by Lucien Truscott in Salon
Assault rifles are insane: New Zealand came to its senses and banned them. When will we?
Gun manufacturers are selling military-grade killing machines to the general public. To their fans, that’s awesome
You want to know what’s insane? The guns we allow to be manufactured and sold in this country that are capable of killing 20 grade school kids, or 17 high school students and teachers, or 58 concertgoers, or 50 worshipers at mosques in a country thousands of miles from our shores. The assault rifles those shooters used are killing machines. That’s all they are. There is blood on the hands of the NRA and the United States Congress and state legislatures in all 50 states because they allow this shit to go on. I’ll tell you what it is. It’s insane.
MORE : https://www.salon.com/2019/03/23/assault-rifles-are-insane-new-zealand-came-to-its-senses-and-banned-them-when-will-we/
nath, for what it may be worth, my encouragement for C@t was in respect to her apologies.
phoenixRED @ #86 Monday, March 25th, 2019 – 9:10 am
This will go nowhere because:
1. Vested interests
2. People who think ‘freedom’ is measured in terms of what size gun you can buy (bigger == more freedom, obviously)
Keyman
Because they are called “the Shooters” for short. “Shooters, Fishers and Farmers” is not being explained very well. I think they should put Farmers first.
This no-one can dispute. Thank you phoenixRED for the link.
briefly says:
Monday, March 25, 2019 at 10:18 am
nath, for what it may be worth, my encouragement for C@t was in respect to her apologies.
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That’s not worth anything to It.
briefly
says:
Monday, March 25, 2019 at 10:18 am
nath, for what it may be worth, my encouragement for C@t was in respect to her apologies.
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My only thoughts are with Pegasus and I hope she returns after what occurred.
Farmers, Fishers and Shooters? FFS… 😉
Good.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/24/us/politics/mueller-report-summary.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage
lizzie, I think you’re meaning is that Farmers are more important element, but maybe you’re being cheeky? Farmers, Fishers and Shooters becomes the FFS Party.
Jaeger @ #93 Monday, March 25th, 2019 – 7:24 am
LOL that about sums them up!
Jaeger, got to be quick around here. 🙂
I hope Peg returns as well.
lizzie @ #89 Monday, March 25th, 2019 – 9:22 am
They should take some rhetoric courses from other minor parties, which will put them onto something like “United Farmers Australia” or “National Farmers Party”.
briefly:
What happened to Pegasus?