Another fortnight, another Essential Research poll that baulks on publishing voting intention numbers. We do, however, get the monthly leadership ratings, which find Scott Morrison at a new peak of 49% approval, up one on a fortnight ago, with disapproval down one to 36%. Anthony Albanese is down two on approval to 36% and up two on disapproval to 31%. Morrison also records the strongest preferred prime minister lead out of the four such results published by Essential since the election, at 46-25, out from 44-28 last month.
The poll also finds strong support for indefinite offshore detention for asylum seekers, with 52% supportive and 32% opposed. However, only 21% accept the government’s position that the medical evacuation legislation “will weaken our borders and result in boats arriving in Australia as they have in the past”, with 41% saying it strikes an appropriate balance and 23% saying it does not go far enough.
A series of questions on Friday’s climate strikes finds 56% in favour and 30% opposed, although only 35% said they were aware of them in response to an initial question, with 54% saying they were unaware. The New South Wales-based respondents to the survey, of which there were 352, were asked a further question on a mooted relaxation of the state’s lockout laws, which 58% supported and 30% opposed.
The poll was conducted Thursday to Sunday from an online panel of 1093 respondents.
Eddie looks fit to be tied!
Even more disappointing to Collingwood fans to lose this game after coming back.
Collingwood did well to avoid a shellacking
Welp I thought the Pies would come back and win. So glad I was wrong 😆
So the franking credits I’ll get when I lodge my tax return will be a cum-ex deal.
Colliwobbles kick in a week early…what a pity! 🙂
AFL have got a real problem with their review system.
GWS should be filthy on that.
That said Toby Greene will be a marked man next week. He should be worried.
Never in doubt for the Sydney team
gee what a tough game. I think GWS should beat Richmond next week.
“GWS fan”
Now there is a phrase you don’t hear everyday
5.10 to Geelong
says:
That said Toby Greene will be a marked man next week. He should be worried.
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why? who is going to go after him and for what? I think whoever his opponent is should be doing the worrying.
GWS fans need to work on their banners. Seen in the last 10 mins:
‘Praise the Lord’
‘Go Cousin Phil’
WTF?
The Tigers will be rewriting their game plan.
Don’t feel sorry for the Pies. They were truly awful and played an appalling brand of football.
Time for Eddie to perhaps STFU.
Nath
Greene will be a target.
He sadly for GWS is a dirty player with anger issues. His body language tonight spoke volumes.
The commentators were right when they said that, once the rain stopped, Collingwood got back in the game. GWS just had to hang on. Which they did. Just. A classic arm wrestle to the final whistle.
Tonight, we are all GWS fans!
And how good is it that Toby Greene gets to redeem himself on the biggest stage?
The only gouging will be from the scalpers
5.10 to Geelong
says:
Saturday, September 21, 2019 at 7:24 pm
The Tigers will be rewriting their game plan.
5.10 to Geelong
says:
Greene will be a target.
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excuse me for suggesting that you know fuck all about football.
Yep he reminds me of Steve Smith.
Trolls don’t worry me, Lars. Every blog has a couple. You’re pretty ordinary at it.
I don’t know which was better… watching Collingwood lose that unloseable game or watching Harmesy back in ’79 retrieve the ball from the 10th row to win a flag for my blues.
Toby Greene did make it onto the field tonight..
Excuse me Nath
Please don’t be nasty in your reply.
I’m offering my own opinion.
Nothing more or less.
No wonder the moderator is exasperated by the nastiness and cruelty on this blog expressed at times.
That said I’m signing off from PB for a while.
With all due respect to moderator William there is a very real toxic culture on PB which could end up sadly or badly in the courts or worse.
In all seriousness that was a phenomenal effort from the Giants given the circumstances of the week.
Beware tigers !
You call that nasty? You should see what BB says about my poor old mum!
The goal review system is embarrassing.
All of Sydney are Giants
5.10 to Geelong.
Richmond do not change thier game plan. It is structure and process driven and why would you change it when you have just made a grand final.
Nath is right.
Ich bin eine GWS Fan?
Nah, its 36 seagulls fighting over a chip
The Trump alleged use of US military aid to Ukraine, as a tied grant redeemable when Ukraine President digs up dirt on Trump political rival Joe Biden, is jaw dropping. Here is the timeline…
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/20/politics/whistleblower-timeline-ukraine-team-trump/index.html?utm_source=twCNNp&utm_content=2019-09-21T09%3A35%3A03&utm_term=image&utm_medium=social
The South African national anthem is a real dirge!
Bill Maher made the obvious point about Zelensky, the Ukraine President.
Before politics, he was a comedian on a reality TV show. How stupid were the Ukrainians to elect someone from such a ridiculous background as President?
sprocket:
His broader point was to US voters, not those in Ukraine.
Pauline Hanson – 23 years later, still artless and angry.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/artless-and-angry-pauline-hanson-demonstrates-lack-of-fitness-for-crucial-role-20190920-p52tes.html
Just when you thought Pauline Hanson couldn’t be more gormless, along comes Malcolm Roberts to outdo her:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-21/one-nation-malcolm-roberts-blames-family-courts-male-violence/11532150
No, Malcolm Roberts, it’s the men who consciously decide to be violent and they cook up a reason to explain responsibility away.
C@tmomma @ #1596 Saturday, September 21st, 2019 – 8:33 pm
Malcolm Roberts will say anything to get attention. A genuine troll.
“Just when you thought Pauline Hanson couldn’t be more gormless, along comes Malcolm Roberts to outdo her:”
Malcolm Roberts..Senator for Plumbing Profound Depths of Dick-Headery unknown even on PB After Dark at its worst. 🙂
FFS, Hanson and her fellow travelers are just such outright self aggrandizing toxic slime mold.
KayJay:
[‘Yes. An intercept by a Fijian player who looked about as big as a Mac truck score with a great run ending in a brilliant dive. Magnifico.’]
Yes, that was a great intercept try; I didn’t think he’d have the legs. All downhill for Fiji after that, though the Wallabies have some work to do. I’m picking the All Blacks to collect the hardware. What about you?
Re. the Family Court inquiry. That towering intellect Hanson’s wRONg as usual. Only three percent of fathers are denied contact with their children, and for very good reason(s). So, her son says: “Mum, the Family Court sucks.” Mum says: “That’s alright dear, mummy will fix things.” And fancy giving the chair to old pa Andrews, no ageist connotation? The Morrison Government’s a laughing stock.
“In less than half a decade, despite never being in power, and only rarely leading in the polls, Corbyn’s Labour has helped crystallise what students of the great Italian leftwing thinker Antonio Gramsci would call a new political common sense: a widespread feeling that free-market capitalism has run its course, public spending needs to rise, and the way we manage society and the economy needs to change.”
Will the grown-ups have to sort out the mess the UK’s got itself into?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/21/bankers-corbyn-tories-no-deal-capitalism-radical-government
EDIT: “free-market capitalism has run its course, public spending needs to rise, and the way we manage society and the economy needs to change.”
+++1
Mavis Davis @ #1588 Saturday, September 21st, 2019 – 9:21 pm
The All Blacks always play with a magnigicent desperation to have the ball. Should be some good matches.
Re. Australia v. Fiji, rugby: seems our Fijians were better than their Fijians.
The jersey they wear seems interchangeable nowadays.
KayJay:
[‘The All Blacks always play with magnificent desperation to have the ball. Should be some good matches.’]
Yes, I’m looking forward to them, if you can find them on free-to-air. For instance, the All Blacks and Springboks match was only available on Fox Sports – 23 -13 to the former.
Could someone enlighten me? To the best of my knowledge, there was I person on this site who posted as “Ron”. His spelling, punctuation, syntax, grammar was all over the place yet he tried to do his best.
Often you’d see “wRONg” when someone was taking the pisser. I could be mistaking him for a poster on another blog – unsure.
The Collingwood GWS game was a cracker.
And the AFL commentariat were fullsome of their praise of GWS.
Meanwhile just watched Melbourne Storm win against the eels who didn’t score.
If it were other way around, the NRL commentators would have been so excited at how great eels played ruh ruh ruh. Cos it was Melbourne Storm, attitude is as per usual one of disdain.
Hence my continued dislike of the NRL
sprocket_says:
Saturday, September 21, 2019 at 7:45 pm
“Bill Maher made the obvious point about Zelensky, the Ukraine President.
Before politics, he was a comedian on a reality TV show. How stupid were the Ukrainians to elect someone from such a ridiculous background as President?”
No sensible country would ever pick a clown as a national leader.
Oh …. wait on.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/21/tom-watson-plan-to-remove-me-as-deputy-leader-is-drive-by-shooting
Purge postponed
Worst thing an American President ever called an Australian PM? Probably “pestiferous varmint”, said by Woodrow Wilson of Billy Morris Hughes in 1919, by all accounts eminently justified. We’ve had a few pestiferous varmints rise to high office in the century since, as has the USA.
Mavis
wRONg is more in honour of Ron after he memorably called out another poster who posted an an altered article.
Thereafter any poster who posted dodgy info was called out as wRONg.
Ron did also have his own unique style of wRiTNig.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/21/the-radical-proposals-that-labour-will-debate-in-brighton
Socialisation of rentier assets…..rent controls, confiscation of housing and shareholder equity…..can’t imagine this will help UK Labour a whole lot….a Leveling…
Do really like the idea of abolishing private colleges….