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.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/sep/20/home-affairs-boss-mike-pezzullo-reveals-he-negotiates-with-trusted-reporters-on-sensitive-leaks
The Department of Home Affairs should be abolished.
Boris:
[‘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.’]
I thank you kindly for that. It was his ‘unique style of wRiTNig’ that I recall. I couldn’t get a handle on it, thinking he may’ve been/is dyslexic.
UI:
[‘The Department of Home Affairs should be abolished.’]
And so should its head.
I would keep the Department of Home Affairs but change it into something more useful like a Department of the Interior which is a US department that focuses on national parks and other domestic issues.
One thing the US and UK do that I like is that of permanent departments instead of our way of changing departmental names with every new government.
Let’s have some classical music. Vivaldi, perhaps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVa37f67Hnc
New thread.