The Australian reports absolutely no change on voting intention in the latest Newspoll, which is now appearing predictably on a three-weekly schedule. The Coalition continues to lead 51-49 on two-party preferred, from primary votes of Coalition 42%, Labor 33%, Greens 13% (maintaining a four-year high) and One Nation 6%. Scott Morrison is steady on 47% approval and up two on disapproval to 45%, while Anthony Albanese’s ratings continue to yo-yo, with approval down two to 37% and disapproval up four to 44%. Despite that, Morrison’s lead as preferred minister is now at 47-32, narrowing from 50-31. The field work period was presumably Thursday to Sunday, and the sample presumably between 1600 and 1700. UPDATE: The sample was 1634, consisting of 953 online and 681 automated phone poll surveys, the latter breakdown still being the only concession offered to greater transparency since the election.
Note also below this post Adrian Beaumont’s latest on Brexit and Canada.
Liberal,Senator Hollie Hughes running interference and whataboutism to try to knock Kitching of her line of questioning on Robodebts to dead people
Any chance we can get rid of Kitching and robodebt?
Boerwar:
[‘How thick are thieves?’]
First to explain this idiom:
[‘This idiom originated in the 1800s’. At that time, thieves often worked together in gangs and were extremely close, telling each other everything and completely relying on each other. ‘Thick’ in this case means ‘very close’ or ‘closely packed’..,’]
Second, Morrison singled out Houston in his maiden speech. To suggest that the former failed to inform the latter of his invitation to the White House is utterly incredulous. That Morrison would try it on reinforces the notion that he’s one sneaky, lying cretin. Labor must milk this for all it’s worth.
– – Kitching now probing on how many Robodebts were issued to dead people, and finds 73 dead people’s estates had to cough up the debt. – –
Death Tax!
I suspect Rowe was targetted by MAGA morons given his focus on Trump. Thankfully the deep-fried Twinkie crowd have little sway with the editors at the AFR.
nath:
[‘Any chance we can get rid of Kitching and robodebt?’]
Agree, Albanese refusing to support her pre-selection, no doubt for good reason.
Robodebt, well that stands for reason.
Kimberly Kitching compared with Rachel Siewart shows the gulf of intellectual and analytical attributes between who the parties put up to the Senate.
I suppose this was noted, but in case not, the Ministerial cage rattling news was that Clover Moore’s Sydney City Council just announced a 60 mill deal to see the city run entirely on renewables (75% wind; 25% solar) by …….drum roll……..July next year.
https://www.esdnews.com.au/sydney-unveils-60-million-green-energy-deal/
(clover on fire in the video)
What a coincidence.
Speaking of forensic questioning… The G has a piece on AOC in hearings.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/23/alexandria-?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
She rocks in a very splendid way.
sprocket_ @ #1076 Thursday, October 24th, 2019 – 8:37 pm
The Greens seem to attract them like flies. I’m just back from a LEAN meeting and we had one of them there. Because LEAN lets anyone who is concerned about the environment join, she turns up and rabbits on and on and on and on, even interrupting the guest speaker, to go on and on and on again! We put a stop to it at Human Rights! 🙄
Are cracks emerging in the araldited support Republican Senators have thus far shown to the President?
Aged pensioners are subject to Robodebt
Confessions @ #1111 Thursday, October 24th, 2019 – 10:07 pm
It’s not quite, ‘What Trump did is definitely an Impeachable offence’, but it’s getting warmer. 🙂
C@t:
McConnell’s refusal to back Trump’s account of a conversation he supposedly had with Moscow Mitch was an interesting development. Now their No. 2 Senate leader is demurring.
C@tmomma
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she turns up and rabbits on and on and on and on, even interrupting the guest speaker, to go on and on and on again!
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Sounds truly awful. I know many who feel the same way. My sympathies.
Confessions @ #1114 Thursday, October 24th, 2019 – 10:31 pm
Yep, moving at the pace of a turtle but McConnell is moving in the right direction. Problem is, at the merest whiff of the tide turning in Trump’s favour again he will back off.
Wow! White Supremacist media organ, The Daily Caller, does fact checking for facebook and Mark Zuckerberg has had dinner with their principles!! AOC definitely has an office that knows how to do its research.
Facebook was never not evil.
Bushfire Bill.. did you see my response to you a couple of days ago regarding liquid metal batteries?
Simon Katich @ #1109 Thursday, October 24th, 2019 – 6:39 pm
I found that somewhat cringey. She appears to be afflicted with the same virus as those journalists who interrupt and talk over the top of their interviewees.
a r @ #1118 Thursday, October 24th, 2019 – 10:48 pm
I know, but I didn’t know it was THAT kind of evil. 😯
😀
You really have to laugh and gape in horror at the sanctimony of the letter Angus Taylor sent to Clover Moore, and it’s utter hypocrisy when you consider how much air travel has been undertaken by Scott Morrison, simply in the time since he has been Prime Minister:
On the Sunday night before publication of the Telegraph’s story, the council spokesman tried desperately to convince the Telegraph its story was wrong. Moore’s staff had not yet seen Taylor’s letter.
It was waiting for them in the office the next morning.
Taylor’s letter began by outlining how the government had a comprehensive set of policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, before telling Moore: “You might be interested to know that there are many practical ways local councils can take real and meaningful action to reduce their carbon emissions.
“One way was to limit unnecessary air travel,” he said, before quoting the erroneous figures.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/oct/23/doctored-documents-angus-taylor-news-corp-climate-clover-moore
Sorry, but I have just been catching up on the detail of this story after a busy day.
AOC reduced The Zuck to a quivering mess of contradictions, making the danger of his company’s grotesque amount of power plain for all to see. We need hundreds of AOCs in the House and Senate to get the government moving in the right direction.
One wonders if similar ‘helpful’ advice is offered to Coalition MPs in rural and regional electorates.
Confessions @ #1125 Thursday, October 24th, 2019 – 11:10 pm
It may be pertinent to analyse the travel logs of the Minister himself over the last 12 months. 🙂
Anyway, reading between the lines of The Guardian’s reporting of the genesis of the document, if, as Taylor is protesting in parliament, neither he nor anyone in his office doctored the City of Sydney Annual Report document, then it must have been done by someone outside his office and passed on to him to use.
Nicholas
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Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 11:05 pm
AOC reduced The Zuck to a quivering mess of contradictions, making the danger of his company’s grotesque amount of power plain for all to see. We need hundreds of AOCs in the House and Senate to get the government moving in the right direction.
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I’m not so sure. I just caught the bit SK posted and they both seemed to be doing well against each other there.
Angus Taylor is on the front page of the Australian with no credit to the Guardian. Andrew Bolt apparently has attacked him too.
I am going on tweets. I don’t read the Australian
Maybe not that exactly, but just today there’s this:
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/lurid-and-outlandish-australian-electoral-commission-slams-critics-20191023-p533n6.html
A possible solution was to start counting earlier than 6pm on election days in future, (the AEC) said. This would “allow the AEC to provide a more comprehensive and earlier indication of [results] following the close of polls”.
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As long as the information was somewhat drip fed from the AEC after 6pm. We wouldn’t want it all over at 6:15 after a big dump of data would we?
I mean there are long standing television rituals to go through.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3Bquepch48
There is no need to know the result on the evening after polls close. The electoral commission should take the time to ensure that every ballot is counted and try not to lose too many of them ever again.
Tom Watson would make a good LOTO for UK Labour and a very good PM.
An easier option is to start counting at 6pm so the pre-poll is then treated has a normal booth.
New thread.
Simply put: I call bullshit with a capital B on this from Houston –
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/24/brian-houston-says-he-genuinely-doesnt-know-if-pm-wanted-him-at-white-house-dinner
adriansays:
Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 7:10 pm
Follow up question from a well versed interviewer.
Followed by a grilling on that subject. 🙂