BludgerTrack: 52.9-47.1 to Labor

Movement to the Coalition on the BludgerTrack poll aggregate, after a better-than-usual result in the only new federal poll for the week.

With Newspoll holding its fire over the weekend of the New South Wales state election, the only new federal poll of the week came from Essential Research, which produced a relatively strong result for the Coalition. The BludgerTrack aggregate accordingly moves slightly in their favour, with Labor’s lead down from 53.3-46.7 to 52.9-47.1. This translates into a gain for the Coalition of two on the seat projection, with New South Wales and Victoria providing one apiece.

Author: William Bowe

William Bowe is a Perth-based election analyst and occasional teacher of political science. His blog, The Poll Bludger, has existed in one form or another since 2004, and is one of the most heavily trafficked websites on Australian politics.

1,589 comments on “BludgerTrack: 52.9-47.1 to Labor”

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  1. If they weren’t skilled others would simply ignore in the first place.

    Rex is a fine example of evolutionary biology. Perfectly adapted to his niche.

  2. Windhover

    I take your point and add an extension. Some Political Party supporters identify quite closely with their parties. IMO, political negging political applies in this space.

    ‘Such posters are skilled at finding their marks and fishing for the responses they live on. ‘

    ‘their marks’… just so. Hence a some (eight by count) negbot alerts, above.

  3. I think those concocting conspiracy theories about the motivations behind certain bludgers’ posting habits could really do with keeping Hanlon’s Razor in mind. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HanlonsRazor

    On top of that, I would recommend that anybody genuinely concerned about how the content in this blog’s comment section might effect the results of the impending election might do to reflect on just how their own contributions paint their party of choice. Obnoxious, aggressive tribalism generally isn’t a particularly effective method of winning over the undecideds.

  4. yabba
    Thank you. Our strategy is use as much public transport as possible while eking out the life of our aged SUV (150,000 km in 10 years)… and yes, it has done lots of bush kms.
    The question is this: when will the electric vehicle market be mature enough to be confident to make the switch?

  5. Regarding EVs and range, all the mainstream models are getting better, not just Tesla. The latest model Nissan Leaf has a range of 234 miles (400km). It is the most popular selling car in NOrway. It is priced at $50,000AUS at present, but that would drop to around $40,000 under the Labor policy. It may drop further as competition increases.

  6. AL
    I am not aware of anyone on Bludger seeking to change anyone else’s views on Bludger enough to make them change their votes.
    They might be pretending to be seeking to do so… but really?
    But I take your general point: pogging is probably more effective than negging.

  7. “Don’t worry. Weeds adapt. It is their superpower.”

    ALP slogan for election 2019.

    We Are Weedkiller. 🙂

    “For a base model a 300-500km range is overkill. ”

    Agreed.

    Me, in a perfect world would have a cheap round town daily driver with around 300km range, AND a hydrogen hybrid with light 4WD capability i can camp out of and put a small (4.5 – 5.5m) boat in and out of the water with. I really do need to win LOTO. 🙁

  8. it looks as though the LNP and murdoch media think labor has handed them a gift on climate policy

    This means the budget is getting drowned out today, and the parliamentary debate when it does site is going to be all about climate change. Climate change is why the libs ditched turnbull and labor have pretty much adopted turnbull’s approach. so the debate becomes about why the libs ditched turnbull, the divisions within the LNP over taking action on climate change, and Mr lump of coal explaining what the LNP is going to do on climate change. it also puts abbott back in the spotlight and the potential for undisciplined comments from the cluster of pro-coal fuckwits in the LNP. Turnbull will also get to give his two bobs worth on what effective climate change policy looks like.

    Labor can point out that emissions were falling under labor and that power prices have rocketed since abbott ditched carbon pricing and ask why this would change under another three years of inaction.

    Shorten is playing masterful chess against scomos tiddlewinks.

  9. imacca
    That is one of our condundrums with respect to EV. We love to go camping off the bitumen.
    What we are sort of hoping is that a new pattern of vehicle ownership evolves whereby you don’t one a car but you own shared access to a couple of cars.

  10. ‘sustainable future says:
    Monday, April 1, 2019 at 4:16 pm

    it looks as though the LNP and murdoch media think labor has handed them a gift on climate policy’

    No brainer. It would not matter what Labor said about Global Warming emissions policies and energy policies, the Murdoch media was going to resurrect the death of Whyalla, $100 roasts, and the death of Western Civilization.

  11. “It is priced at $50,000AUS at present, but that would drop to around $40,000 under the Labor policy. It may drop further as competition increases.”

    Ahhh, you leftie economic vandal. You subsribe to the support of new and desirable tech introduction with public subsidy for the public good until the market is mature enough to stand on its own then??

    Liberals, Climate Denialists and the ALL TAX IS THEFT mob hate that. Unless its to support Coal, Fossil Fuels and their Gina.

    Which i take as a sign its actually good public policy. 🙂

  12. “Negging

    Low-grade insults meant to undermine the self-confidence of a woman so she might be more vulnerable to your advances.”

    Is this the same as ‘Treat ’em mean, keep ’em keen’ ?

    I knew some Neanderthals who thought this was an effective form of courtship.

  13. I’ve been half asleep today after a rather sleepless night, but I’m getting the feeling that LNP are recycling old arguments because that’s all they can think of. Bit sad, really. Chuckle.

  14. imacca

    To be clear, that price drop would be achieved by nothing more than reallocation of existing tax subsidies applied to “work” vehicles being available to EVs. NO extra public spending needed!

    As for being a “leftie economic vandal”,thanks for the compliment 🙂

  15. Newscorp and Coalition spokespeople probably wrote their responses to Labor’s climate policy well in advance, before they knew any details, with a couple of blanks to fill in with references to actual policy content once known.

  16. Guardian

    Remember how the government announced a $6.7m grant to the Australian National Maritime museum to fund a circumnavigation of Australia to commemorate the 250th anniversary of James Cook’s landing in (what became) Australia?

    And remember how Scott Morrison originally called it a “re-enactment” and then had to backtrack because of the pesky detail that Cook never actually circumnavigated Australia, but just sort of charted the east coast, recorded some snarky messages in his log and then bounced?

    Well re-creating this government’s favoured parts of history, whether they actually happened or not, is set to continue, according to Christopher Pyne’s latest release:

    The Government is pleased to announce the STS Young Endeavour replacement project is progressing and will be due for consideration by Cabinet later this year.

    Minister for Defence, the Hon Christopher Pyne MP said the program is recognised internationally as a leading youth development program, with more than 500 young Australians taking part every year.

    As a friend of mine used to say. “Big, hairy deal.”

  17. “Regarding EVs and range, all the mainstream models are getting better, not just Tesla. The latest model Nissan Leaf has a range of 234 miles (400km). It is the most popular selling car in NOrway. It is priced at $50,000AUS at present, but that would drop to around $40,000 under the Labor policy. It may drop further as competition increases.”

    Well, it would need a monumental drop to be competitive with is petrol driven equivalent- heaps of cars of equivalent size are priced at $A19,990 drive away. It’s all very well for the rich and upper middle class but we desperately need an EV policy that is relevant to ordinary labor voters in the burbs.

  18. lizzie
    ‘The Government is pleased to announce the STS Young Endeavour replacement project is progressing and will be due for consideration by Cabinet later this year.’

    Just another improvised political explosive device left for the incoming Labor Government.

  19. A-E
    What do you suggest?
    A couple of elections ago I suggested a new policy that involved giving everyone on Newstart a new car. It was partly to be provocative but it would have some immediate mass social and economic benefits for Newstart participants.

  20. AE
    “It’s all very well for the rich and upper middle class but we desperately need an EV policy that is relevant to ordinary labor voters in the burbs.”

    In the short term the best policy for these people is the other half of what was announced today – to ensure that we get more efficient conventional vehicles,that will also be cheaper to run. The Labor policy is to mandate 105 g CO2/km for the rest of the light vehicle fleet. That is easily achieved by most hybrids. We bought ours for under $25K. Average car emissions = 180 g CO2/km; a Commodore six was 220. So this is a big reduction, and will save people money.

    This group of people would also benefit greatly from more funding into public transport, which is another aspect of transport CC policy I have mentioned before.

  21. BW:

    AL
    I am not aware of anyone on Bludger seeking to change anyone else’s views on Bludger enough to make them change their votes.
    They might be pretending to be seeking to do so… but really?

    I feel like you’ve either missed my point or are being deliberately obtuse.

    In the past, at least a few people here (including PB regulars) have outright referred to their contributions as a form of campaigning. Even more than that, it is pretty common practice for some bludgers to try to shut down discussion or react with hostility towards those sharing undesired opinions for the very reason that it would have an adverse effect on public opinion and/or the election result, or to accuse certain posters of being deliberate trolls (of the “Russians interfering in the 2016 election” variety) trying to sink Labor’s electoral chances.

    If your point is that doing any of the above is pretty silly, or that trying to change the voting habits of anyone here is mostly futile, I’d agree. Anybody politically engaged enough to spend their time posting on a niche psephology blog has already made up their mind. On top of that, this is the comment section of a niche psephology blog* – very little of what we write here is ever going to have any impact on the broader electorate.

    (*Yes, Poll Bludger is easily the most frequented and notable Australian psephology blog around. However, it also happens to be an Australian psephology blog.)

    But I’d be surprised to learn that you would share my opinion here, Beorwar, since much of your own posting history suggests that you do believe that what happens in the Poll Bludger comment section could well influence electoral outcomes. Otherwise, what would be the point of the Machiavellian schemes being enacted by Rex and his fellow “liblings”, exactly, or in railing so hard against them?

    On a side note, I seem to remember there was a certain Poll Bludger denizen who spent much of the 2013 election campaign trying to convince everyone to vote informal. Now, I’d assume this individual was making dozens upon dozens of posts, day after day, for nearly two months, for an actual reason – most likely, to persuade others to change their votes? I mean, they wouldn’t have just been spamming this blog with untold walls of text that they knew served no purpose whatsoever, right?

    pogging is probably more effective than negging

    Just make sure to use plenty of lube.

  22. Access to cheaper batteries to store power from solar panels, combined with the inevitable drop in the price of fully electric cars will be the key factor for most people to switch. We are already looking at a hybrid for our next vehicle. The fully electric options are too expensive for us just now.

  23. Boerwar
    says:
    Monday, April 1, 2019 at 4:35 pm
    A-E
    What do you suggest?
    A couple of elections ago I suggested a new policy that involved giving everyone on Newstart a new car. It was partly to be provocative but it would have some immediate mass social and economic benefits for Newstart participants.
    _____________________________________
    That is hilarious. Would it be a one off car give away, or would you get a new car every time you go on Newstart. The whole family could quit their jobs, upgrade their cars, find new work and be significantly better off!

    The hundreds of thousands on Newstart with existing cars, would get an upgrade, or sell their new car for cash money. I assume the new cars would be at least 25k each, so that’s a tidy sum. Could you get a Porsche?

  24. Douglas and Milko
    Monday, April 1st, 2019 – 3:58 pm
    Comment #1233

    I remain grateful to William for providing the opportunity to post items of uncertain value as well as providing a space for useful and entertaining prose and information.

    Douglas Adams was RIGHT! TINY ALIENS are invading Earth, say boffins

    Typically get swallowed by a small dog

    Cue 🎸 Slim Whitman. 🎸

  25. Of course if I had an employee who wanted to be sacked so he could then pick up a new car, and then be rehired a few weeks later, I’d happily oblige.

  26. Wayoutwest

    I would encourage anyone looking for cheap, reliable, environmentally responsible transport to consider a hybrid, especially a Prius made post 2010. You can pick them up second hand for under 20K, newer ones around $25K. The motor and drivetrain are good for 500,000+km (ask taxi drivers). Servicing is cheap. Former fears about battery life have been overcome – they are guaranteed for years and total replacement cost is far less than it was in the 2000s. Ours is five years old and super reliable (absolutely nothing has broken on it). We only fill up every 2nd or 3rd week.

  27. lube… hehheh. Perhaps I should offer ‘egging’ as the obverse of ‘negging’?

    That Informal Party stuff was one of the few Bludger campaigns that did the trick, IMO. It is possibly the campaign on Bludger most often referenced by posters.
    My point was, IMO, an excellent one: that Rudd and Abbott were the two rotten apples of Australian politics, that neither was completely sane, and that any Party that offered either up for the prime ministership should be punished for this by withholding the vote.
    Keating, as ever, summed them up perfectly: ‘Give me the job or I’ll wreck the joint.’ In the upshot they got the job and STILL wrecked the joint. My point was that Australian politics would never normalize while either or both were still players in their parties. Rudd is in the US and rarely trouble Labor anymore. And wouldn’t the Liberals just love to get Abbott off the scene. Still there, still wrecking.
    As to your other points, I enjoy the odd bit of jousting but not really as if the jousting would make any difference in the real world.
    Unlike most posters, I occasionally change my mind when some new angle or information arrives.
    I enjoy unpacking policy, particularly if it the policy is at the zanier end of the Greens spectrum.
    I despise politicians who use race to further their personal political ends and usually have a go at that, regardless of political affiliation.

  28. https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2019-04-01/mental-healthcare-needs-major-re-think-experts-say/10957812

    Health experts say a cornerstone of Australia’s mental health system, which costs more than $800 million a year, is “inequitable”, under-scrutinised and in need of urgent reform.

    The Better Access scheme, which was introduced in 2006, allows Australians living with mental illness to receive up to 10 government-subsidised sessions with a psychologist each year.

  29. https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/auditor-general-launches-probe-into-home-affairs-offshore-contracts-20190401-p519mt.html

    The Commonwealth Auditor General will investigate the Department of Home Affairs’ management of up to $1 billion worth of security and welfare services contracts for offshore immigration processing centres.
    :::
    “This audit will assess whether the Department of Home Affairs has appropriately managed the procurement of garrison support and welfare services for immigration processing centres.”

    The audit is forecast to be tabled in Parliament in January 2020.

  30. Boerwar @ #1282 Monday, April 1st, 2019 – 4:52 pm

    lube… hehheh. Perhaps I should offer ‘egging’ as the obverse of ‘negging’?

    That Informal Party stuff was one of the few Bludger campaigns that did the trick, IMO. It is possibly the campaign on Bludger most often referenced by posters.
    My point was, IMO, an excellent one: that Rudd and Abbott were the two rotten apples of Australian politics, that neither was completely sane, and that any Party that offered either up for the prime ministership should be punished for this by withholding the vote.
    Keating, as ever, summed them up perfectly: ‘Give me the job or I’ll wreck the joint.’ In the upshot they got the job and STILL wrecked the joint. My point was that Australian politics would never normalize while either or both were still players in their parties. Rudd is in the US and rarely trouble Labor anymore. And wouldn’t the Liberals just love to get Abbott off the scene. Still there, still wrecking.
    As to your other points, I enjoy the odd bit of jousting but not really as if the jousting would make any difference in the real world.
    Unlike most posters, I occasionally change my mind when some new angle or information arrives.
    I enjoy unpacking policy, particularly if it the policy is at the zanier end of the Greens spectrum.
    I despise politicians who use race to further their personal political ends and usually have a go at that, regardless of political affiliation.

    Right, so, The Informal Party was basically a same same or Lib-Lab campaign. Ok then.

  31. ‘a r says:
    Monday, April 1, 2019 at 4:39 pm

    Boerwar @ #1272 Monday, April 1st, 2019 – 3:35 pm

    A couple of elections ago I suggested a new policy that involved giving everyone on Newstart a new car.

    So it’s fine for the government to hand out new cars, but a UBI will trigger hyperinflation and crash the economy?’

    1. I await with breathless interest the Greens Party’s costings for the UBI.
    2. I did the calculations on the Newstart car policy.
    It goes something like this: 500,000 times $15000 for a People’s Car divided by four years of forward estimates = a bit less than two billion a year. The states contribution would be no car rego an third party insurance costs. We could add $10,000 per vehicle to get the A-E ev model.

    This would have a number of important impacts:
    1. People would be able to get to jobs, job interviews and discussions with Robocop’s minions.
    2. A car is an important part of Australian people’s identities. Having a car thus adds considerably to self confidence.
    3. All the Newstart people who spend inordinate proportions of their money to keep wrecks or unlicenced vehicles on the road would be relieved of the constant anxiety of driving unsafe and/or unergistered vehicles on the road.
    4. This policy would do the opposite of Robocop. It would give Newstart recipients agency.

    As for the UBI. Let’s assume that there are around 18,000,000 adults in Australia. The UBI could be set at a very modest $20,000 per annum. That comes to $360 billion a year.

  32. Unlike most posters, I occasionally change my mind when some new angle or information arrives.

    Me too, Boerwar. I was a big supporter of the Gillard-Milne-Indy Govt until it was torn down by Labor operatives.

  33. We’re actually pretty similar in some respects, Boerwar.

    Never seen you both in the same room. I am certain you are the same person.

  34. Many thanks for that Ammonia article link yabba. Its actually one of the clearestexplanations of the state of play i have seen on this.

    Politically, this is the kind of stuff that ties in well with the ALP’s announcment recently in QLD on their support and proposed funding to research and development of hydrogen.

    This is NOT pie in the sky maybe one day stuff. Although its unclear where the tech is going its interesting that there is serious work going into multiple pathways to the same objective.

    I smiled at the references to the “half green” possibilities for ammonia production where the haber process is still used, but the hydrogen component is sourced from renewables. Useful transition strategy that gets better value out of production assets curently in place till end of life. That could be important in lessening the resistance from vested interests who have already invested in ammonia production plants.

  35. Australian Conservation Foundation – Labor climate plan a credible platform to cut pollution across industries but greater ambition is needed

    https://www.acf.org.au/labor_climate_plan_a_credible_platform_to_cut_pollution_across_industries_but_greater_ambition_is_needed

    “While Labor’s policies are a significant step forward and far more credible than the Coalition’s lacklustre efforts, the level of ambition of both major parties is still short of what scientific bodies like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change say is necessary to halt climate damage. The major parties also continue to have damaging blind spots on the critical need to transition away from polluting coal and stop Adani.”

    “While Labor has policies to accelerate clean energy deployment, they fall glaringly short on the need to rapidly replace Australia’s polluting coal fired power plants and halt new coal mines like the Adani project.

    “There is still a cognitive dissonance in our national debate about the climate damage the coal we dig up and send overseas is causing. No party can claim to be truly serious on climate change until it stops Adani and develops strategy to accelerate the transition away from coal.
    :::
    “Unfortunately, sections of Labor’s policy platform contain significant wriggle room that big polluters may seek to exploit. If it wins government Labor must quickly harden the detail around its policies and resist attempts of industry lobby groups like the Minerals Council of Australia, the Business Council of Australia and the Australian Automobile Association to weaken climate action.”

  36. I suspect the current prices of EVs contain a substantial premium being extracted from “early adopters” by the manufacturers.

    I can’t see how they would be much more expensive to build than a petrol or diesel car. Sure the battery is an extra cost but the power train is much simpler and cheaper. It may need a bit more in electronics but I would think not much more than in a cheapish laptop.

    In addition, the rest of the vehicle does not have to be engineered to support a heavy vibrating mechanism powered by explosions.

    Does anyone here have the figures to prove or disprove this?

    It seems to me to be the micro version of the coal fired power station versus a wind or solar farm and we know which way that one’s going

  37. Pegasus @ #1292 Monday, April 1st, 2019 – 5:09 pm

    Australian Conservation Foundation – Labor climate plan a credible platform to cut pollution across industries but greater ambition is needed

    https://www.acf.org.au/labor_climate_plan_a_credible_platform_to_cut_pollution_across_industries_but_greater_ambition_is_needed

    “While Labor’s policies are a significant step forward and far more credible than the Coalition’s lacklustre efforts, the level of ambition of both major parties is still short of what scientific bodies like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change say is necessary to halt climate damage. The major parties also continue to have damaging blind spots on the critical need to transition away from polluting coal and stop Adani.”

    “While Labor has policies to accelerate clean energy deployment, they fall glaringly short on the need to rapidly replace Australia’s polluting coal fired power plants and halt new coal mines like the Adani project.

    “There is still a cognitive dissonance in our national debate about the climate damage the coal we dig up and send overseas is causing. No party can claim to be truly serious on climate change until it stops Adani and develops strategy to accelerate the transition away from coal.
    :::
    “Unfortunately, sections of Labor’s policy platform contain significant wriggle room that big polluters may seek to exploit. If it wins government Labor must quickly harden the detail around its policies and resist attempts of industry lobby groups like the Minerals Council of Australia, the Business Council of Australia and the Australian Automobile Association to weaken climate action.”

    It’s all about their donors, Peg.

  38. https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-04-01/coal-fired-power-emissions-mercury/10958128

    Victoria’s coal-fired power plants released more than a tonne of mercury into the atmosphere during 2017-18, according to data from Australia’s National Pollutant Inventory.

    But much of that could have been avoided if available emissions-capture technology was retrofitted, advocates said.

    The data released on Friday showed coal-fired power stations and coal mines were the greatest source of fine-particle pollution, oxides of nitrogen and sulfur dioxide nationwide.
    :::
    “There are two things stopping power stations from fitting these fine-particle emissions controls. The first thing is that governments aren’t asking them to.”

    Cost is the other factor. But any cost-benefit analysis needs to factor in the impacts on health, Dr Whelan said.

    Up to 3,000 deaths in Australia each year can be attributed to air pollution, according to research from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).

  39. I share many of the goals of UBI proponents but I see the UBI as a poor mechanism to achieve them.

    The goals of a UBI are best achieved by other means

    Goal 1: Broaden the range of activities for which people are paid. Broaden our society’s concept of what counts as socially valuable work.

    A JG and mainstream public sector job creation can achieve that goal without creating the macroeconomic problems of a UBI (inflationary pressure; falling workforce participation; the risk of not enough production overall to meet everybody’s needs) and without facing the cultural and political difficulties of a UBI (free-rider problems; the cultural expectation of contribution and reciprocity rather than passively receiving other people’s output; the failure to provide the many psycho-social benefits of participating in paid work; the need for very big tax increases to render the UBI non-inflationary)

    Goal 2: Increase people’s opportunities for leisure.

    This can be achieved by consistently converting a portion of productivity growth to a shorter working day, a shorter working week, and more weeks of annual leave.

    Goal 3: Provide a safety net to assist people affected by structural changes to the economy – these include labour-displacing technological change, transitioning to a zero carbon economy, and the impacts of global competition.

    A JG, mainstream public sector job creation, federal government investments in education and training (including paying people for engaging in education and training), strategic federal government investments in new industries, more spending on caring services, increasing the social wage (e.g. by making health care, education, child care, aged care, disability support, public transport and other public services completely free at the point of use), increasing the Age Pension and removing all means-testing for it (while abolishing compulsory superannuation and tax deductions for superannuation and other forms of retirement saving) – all of these policies can ease people’s experiences of big economic change more effectively than a UBI.

    Goal 4: Improve the quality of employment everywhere by making job-seekers less desperate.

    A JG would achieve this goal by ensuring that everyone has a high quality living wage public sector job available to them whenever they want it. Mainstream employers would have to at least match what the JG offers to be able to attract and retain workers.

    We also need to change employment law to strengthen protections for workers and to make it possible for unions to be well-resourced and capable of representing workers effectively.

    We need to remove limits on the right of unions to enter workplaces.

    We need to remove limits on the right of unions to collect dues from workers who have benefited from improved wages and conditions that were secured by the union’s efforts.

    We need to regulate labour hire firms very tightly.

    He need to make labour hire firms and the ultimate employer jointly liable for workplace health and safety and other employment standards.

    We need to enact compulsory licensing of labour hire firms.

    We need to legislate limits on the casualization of the workforce.

    We need to strengthen the right of casual workers to upgrade to permanent employee status.

    We need to broaden the legal definition of employee so that it includes people whose pay and conditions depend on a major firm.

    We need to resource an umpire that can actually enforce collective agreements.

    We need to ban employers from terminating Enterprise Agreements during the renegotiation of these Agreements.

    We need to enable multi-employer and industry-level bargaining.

    We need to enact proactive measures to help systematically disadvantaged workers such as women, people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, migrant workers, and international students. This help needs to address all aspects of people’s experience of work, including job search, recruitment, and job retention.

    There are many steps in the area of employment law that the federal government should take to improve the quality of employment.

    If a UBI is set at a high enough level to enable a person to live on it, the problem is that this would likely induce enough people to leave the workforce that it would reduce productive capacity and inflate away some of the purchasing power of the UBI, preventing it from being enough to live on.

    If a UBI is set at a partial or supplemental level, the problem is that employers can simply cut their own wages accordingly. A partial UBI would effectively become a wage subsidy for employers. Employees would not benefit from it. In this sense, a partial UBI would be like the first home owner’s grant (which is actually a benefit for home sellers rather than home buyers because it gets factored into the asking price).

  40. It’s all very well for the rich and upper middle class but we desperately need an EV policy that is relevant to ordinary labor voters in the burbs

    The policy allows them to continue to buy cheap petrol cars and will allows them to buy affordable electric cars in the future (as the policy encourages more imports and local builds and economies of scale aimed at reducing costs) and also reduces our carbon emissions to mitigate climate change that would have a greater adverse effect on ordinary labor voters in the burbs compared to rich innercity polar bear loving types.

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