Newspoll: 50-50

The Coalition’s lead disappears altogether in the latest Newspoll, which also records a resounding bounce in Anthony Albanese’s personal ratings.

Newspoll has turned in a result for its three-weekly federal poll which, if nothing else, shows it’s not letting the May election result prevent it from publishing optimistic-looking numbers for Labor. As related in The Australian ($), the latest poll has the major parties tied on two-party preferred, after four successive results of 51-49 in favour of the Coalition.

The Coalition is down two on the primary vote to 40%, with Labor up two to 35%, the Greens down one to 12% and One Nation up one to 7%. Anthony Albanese enjoys some encouraging movement on personal ratings, with approval up five to 42% and disapproval down seven to 37%. However, Scott Morrison’s ratings are little changed, with approval down one to 46% and disapproval down two to 43%, and his lead as preferred prime minister narrows only marginally, from 47-32 to 46-32.

The poll was conducted Thursday to Sunday from a sample of 1682.

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.

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  2. Pell would be as equally likely to be allowed to dress up as Santa at the prison Xmas party as get bail pending the High Court hearing.

    The test for bail in the High Court would be along the lines of a very strong appeal and given that special leave wasn’t granted but rather referred to the full bench, the threshold cannot be met.

    Bret Walker SC is not in the business of running shithouse applications.

  4. Shellbell

    What is the record of the High Court regarding overturning Victorian Court Appeal decisions? I think you have told us before but I have forgotten.

  8. Steve777

    “In the Liberal-Murdoch dictionary, “Socialist” is a term of abuse directed at opponents, and “socialism” likewise is used to denigrate any policies that go against the interests of their mates and major donors. Synonyms for “socialist” include “poo-poo head” plus a lot of words that I won’t repeat in such polite company.”
    ——

    That’s funny.

    On PB “socialist/ism” is a term of abuse most commonly used by Labor (right wing?) bloggers.

    To them Barnaby Joyce is a dreaded socialist. 🙂

  9. Shellbell:

    You need to think outside the box. I repeat, there’s nothing precluding a bail application on Pell’s part.
    Why should an ostensible innocent man spend another night in the slammer? Think de Bonoian, rather than blindly relying on stare decisis. As for Walker, I think he’s overrated, the legal equivalent of Saint Jude.

  10. shellbell:

    [‘Disproportionately high in recent years.’]

    What you’ve failed to supply is what were the nature of the cases that the High Court overturned. Was it not the propensity of the Victoria Court of Appeal to overturn jury verdicts?

  11. “It appears the researcher’s work the domestic violence campaigner based her comments on showed an increase in domestic violence numbers after a severe bushfire but never accused firefighters of that abuse.”

    So, idiots jumping on what they think they heard someone say, rather than what someone actually said then? Glad we never see that here.

  14. https://www.smh.com.au/national/barnaby-joyce-says-sun-s-magnetic-fields-cause-bushfires-science-says-20191112-p539xb.html

    Interesting Barnyard is now implicitly linking Climate Change and Bushfires. 🙂

    “”There are a range of things that affect the climate and on a global scale, you should be part of it, and acknowledge it would have an effect and I acknowledge that there are other issues as well,” he said. There’s just the the oscillation of the seasons. There’s a change in the magnetic field of the sun.”

    The whole “suns magnetic field” causes warming, not “CO2” causes warming, has from time to time been a theme of the RWNJobbie Denialatii. NutterTruckers were big on that for a while so that gives you some idea of its credibility as a theory.

    Whatever, its certainly Barnyard blaming these bushfires on a supposed mechanism for Global Warming. 🙂

    How Good is That!! 🙂

  15. Shellbell

    Thanks. I that’s what I thought I remembered.

    Mavis.

    I want true justice. If as the jury found he is guilty I don’t want that overturned without good reason.

    That is true reasonable doubt was discarded. I am of the better one guilty people go free rather than one innocent doesn’t philosophy.
    Some areas that principle is hard to stick to.

  19. Bloody Libs are politicising everything.

    This in an email just received:

    The new way to announce ARC research funding

    The ARC has adopted a new funding announcement process whereby outcomes may be first released under embargo, as per the ARC’s embargo policy which is available here. For the ARC’s purposes, an embargo is the prohibition of publicising information provided by the ARC until a certain date or until certain conditions have been met. It is understood that an embargo may be lifted by local MPs in conjunction with the Minister for Education. For example, two universities were recently able to announce their DECRA outcomes due to their embargos being lifted by their local MPs. UQ has contacted its local MP to seek permission to release its current DECRA results.

  24. 3z,

    Yeah, exactly.

    The whole process of lifting an embargo with the involvement of the Minister is rubbish. Thankfully the Minister and MPs have nothing to do with the process – that’s why we have the ARC – so they can gagf if they want to try and take the credit for it, especially with the shortage of research funding available in Australia atm.

  27. They have no shame.

    Rick WilsonVerified account@TheRickWilson
    10m10 minutes ago
    GOP aide tells me one plan discussed is for Gym Jordan and others to repeatedly use the whistleblower’s name as one of several strategies to blow up the hearings and make the media report on his identity.

    Be prepared for stunts.

  28. Confessions

    “They have no shame.

    Rick WilsonVerified account@TheRickWilson
    10m10 minutes ago
    GOP aide tells me one plan discussed is for Gym Jordan and others to repeatedly use the whistleblower’s name as one of several strategies to blow up the hearings and make the media report on his identity.”
    —–

    It is illustrative that USofA political ephemera is totally consistent with being posted in Newspol 50;50…. to use an Americanism……. “SAD”

    Be prepared for stunts.

  29. This being a blog about stats and all, William if you catch a glance at this. A really good data set to get a hold of, would be to break down the SA1 areas that are affected by fire over this summer.
    If you can find damage report information or something similar and categorize it, then you could lay that across voting intention and Federal and State electoral divisions.
    It’s be interesting to see what the poling response is over about the next year. We should get a a few state polls over time and maybe federal stuff that may capture a pretty interesting dataset on how poeple respond to fires, drought, famine and, flood.

  30. Fessy
    Thanks for the link, the range of channels looks impressive but do you know anything about this service like is access unlimited and who offers it for free although i see it carried ads?

  33. Unfortunately, the computers were trained on CVs submitted over 10 years. And because the tech industry is dominated by men, the vast majority of those CVs came from men, and the system learned to downgrade women. The programs began to look out for telltale phrases like “women’s chess club captain” and mark those candidates for the scrapheap.
    …
    Most famous is the Correctional offender management profiling for alternative sanctions (Compas) in America, which claims to calculate the risk of reoffending and so help judges in sentencing. A study found that it was no more accurate at doing so than strangers recruited from the internet.

    https://www.theage.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/computer-says-no-artificial-intelligence-proving-sexist-to-the-core-20191113-p53a3i.html

  35. lizzie @ #1784 Thursday, November 14th, 2019 – 6:27 am

    Craig Emerson
    @DrCraigEmerson
    ·
    6h
    Greens vow to block ETS in Senate. Remember this?

    The Australian Greens want the Federal Government’s emission trading scheme legislation put to a vote as soon as possible – so they can defeat it once and for all.
    https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/greens-vow-to-block-ets-in-senate-20090525-bk16.html

    Sound like a bunch of reckless environmental vandals to me.

  36. C@t

    Well, I’m getting tired of the constant attacks on Labor, and Emerson’s tweet reminded me of “the perfect being the enemy of the good”.

  37. Good morning Dawn Patrollers.

    Shane Wright explains how wages growth is starting to slow despite record low interest rates and public infrastructure spending, fuelling expectations the Reserve Bank will be forced into unconventional monetary policy to boost the economy. And what will it do to the rather heroic current budget assumptions? The continued forlorn hope is demonstrate by the chart.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/inextricably-linked-wage-growth-flatlines-as-report-shows-jobless-rate-hurting-economy-20191113-p53a94.html

    The Coalition’s wages projections are beyond a joke – and there’s bad news all round chimes in Greg Jericho.
    https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2019/nov/14/the-coalitions-wages-projections-are-beyond-a-joke-and-theres-bad-news-all-round
    Michael Pascoe writes that at 11.30am yesterday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics made a joke out of the Reserve Bank’s inflation target and the federal government’s budget policy. He says the central bank’s inflation outlook credibility has been trashed and the government is promising most Australians a poorer future and concludes that trickle down doesn’t work, but that’s all that’s on offer.
    https://thenewdaily.com.au/money/your-budget/2019/11/13/pay-wages-rba-abs-bad/
    This bit of satire from Judith Ireland is well worth reading!
    https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/how-good-is-this-carbon-tax-psst-pm-s-speech-falls-off-the-back-of-a-truck-20191113-p53a9h.html
    The Berejiklian government is split over bushfire policy as the state continues to burn, with Environment Minister Matt Kean and Nationals leader John Barilaro clashing over hazard reduction.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/as-fires-rage-coalition-at-loggerheads-over-hazard-reduction-20191113-p53ada.html
    The NSW government is all over the place trying to prevent discussion on the link between climate change and bushfire behaviour.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/environment-minister-blames-miscommunication-for-bushfire-message-to-staff-20191113-p53aam.html
    NSW needs a building commission, not just a single commissioner, to fix the state’s troubled construction industry, according to a NSW parliamentary inquiry reports Alexandra Smith.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/commissioner-in-a-supehero-cape-not-enough-calls-for-building-commission-20191113-p53a7f.html
    Liam Maddox writes that Barnaby Joyce’s claim that changes to the sun’s magnetic fields were linked to the bushfires burning out of control across NSW have been rubbished by climate scientists.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/barnaby-joyce-says-sun-s-magnetic-fields-cause-bushfires-science-says-20191112-p539xb.html
    Professor of environmental change biology David Bowman tells us that there really is a limit to fighting fire with fire. He says that one of the egregious claims is that environmentalists have had undue influence over fire management policy.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/reality-check-there-are-limits-to-fighting-fire-with-fire-20191113-p53ac0.html
    A nice contribution from Pru Goward on the history of firefighting I Australia.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/long-before-the-anzac-legend-our-national-character-was-forged-in-the-flames-of-the-bush-20191112-p53a0v.html
    Professor Janet Stanley asks why the government is refusing to link bushfires to climate change. She says that if the Morrison government seriously wanted fewer Australians to experience a bushfire crisis, it would use the current situation to galvanise public sentiment, shift the political agenda, and make meaningful inroads into emissions reduction.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/why-is-the-government-refusing-to-link-bushfires-to-climate-change-20191113-p53a7l.html
    Grain and cattle farmer Pete Mailer reckons the National Farmers’ Federation’s drought strategy is like shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic. He says that if we do not start to develop and implement climate adaptation solutions that are backed by research and development, the agricultural sector in Australia will be unbankable.
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/13/the-nff-and-governments-drought-strategy-is-like-shuffling-the-deck-chairs-on-the-titanic
    Australia’s firefighters need concrete support, not just the PM’s ‘thoughts and prayers’ writes Sydney firefighter Jim Casey.
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/14/australias-firefighters-need-concrete-support-not-just-the-pms-thoughts-and-prayers
    It is notable that the NSW State Government has recently cut its fire services, writes Tarric Brooker.
    https://independentaustralia.net/article-display/gladys-berejiklian-slashes-fire-service-budgets-while-nsw-burns,13307
    Meanwhile on the other side of the world Venice’s mayor called the city a disaster zone on Wednesday after the second highest tide ever recorded swept through it overnight, flooding its historic basilica and leaving many squares and alleyways deep under water.
    https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/venice-mayor-blames-climate-change-for-second-highest-tide-on-record-20191113-p53a9s.html
    Judith Ireland tells us that Stuart Robert concedes the NDIS is “not always living up to high expectations”, but insists it is on track to include half a million Australians within five years. He is fronting the NPC today.
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/not-always-living-up-to-high-expectations-robert-to-release-final-stage-ndis-plan-20191113-p53a9p.html
    Most consumers don’t want to know the details of the energy market. They want more renewables, more cheaply and with no risk of blackouts writes Jennifer Hewett.
    https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/energy-arguments-stuck-in-the-grid-20191113-p53abi
    Katharine Murphy reports that In a new discussion paper to be released today, the AEMC says technology has previously limited consumer participation in the energy grid but the advent of smart devices and virtual power plants has created the opportunity for a fully fledged two-sided market.
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/nov/14/australia-told-to-prepare-for-completely-new-two-sided-energy-market
    Patrick Hatch reports that Australia’s health insurers are putting pressure on the federal government to overhaul how much they pay for knee and hip replacements and other devices in private hospitals, after saying attempts to rein in those costs have failed. They say that the amount its members pay for common prostheses is often two or three times higher than in comparable countries
    https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/health-funds-pressure-canberra-over-700m-medical-devices-failure-20191113-p53a9k.html
    Sydney dwelling prices are expected to jump between 10 and 14 per cent while Melbourne home values are set to rise by up to 15 per cent, even without further interest rate cuts.
    https://www.afr.com/property/residential/sydney-melbourne-prices-to-surge-up-to-15pc-20191111-p539ji
    Doctors overseeing the transfer of asylum seekers to Australia for medical treatment have raised concerns about delays in their advice being presented to Peter Dutton in the latest official snapshot of activity under the medevac regime.
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/nov/13/medevac-laws-doctors-complain-advice-is-not-being-given-to-peter-dutton-quickly-enough
    Sarah Martin uncovers another rather questionable project supported by the regional jobs heme. This time it’s a Wollongong dog breeder who was awarded a $205,000 federal grant for an aquaculture project for which he tried to raise more than $5m on the blockchain market by issuing “aqua tokens” that offered a return to investors based on the price of fish.
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/nov/14/wollongong-dog-breeder-given-205000-for-aquaculture-project-under-regional-grant-scheme
    Facebook has rebuffed an appeal by the ACTU to take down fake tweets purporting to be from Sally McManus and Bill Shorten, arguing the content doesn’t violate the social media giant’s community guidelines.
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/nov/14/facebook-wont-take-down-fake-posts-about-sally-mcmanus-and-bill-shorten
    New Zealanders are bound for a referendum on euthanasia next year after a tight conscience vote in Wellington. If only we could do the same.
    https://www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/new-zealand-to-vote-on-euthanasia-in-referendum-after-bill-passed-20191113-p53aef.html
    Decorated sports journalist Alan Attwood defends the ABC’s decision to not cover the next Olympics on radio.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/ignore-the-howls-of-anguish-the-abc-has-made-the-right-call-20191113-p53a8d.html
    The SMH editor gives conditional approval to a new technology being tested in NSW to detect drivers using mobile phones hands-on/
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/technology-can-crack-down-on-mobile-phone-use-while-driving-20191113-p53abg.html
    The New Daily tells us why ATMs are set to become a rarity on Australia’s streets.
    https://thenewdaily.com.au/money/finance-news/2019/11/13/atm-cash-disappear/
    Stephen Bartholomeusz writes that the fallout from the Hayne inquiry and regulators’ steely-eyed focus on stability in the wake of the financial crisis appear to be putting a brake on bank lending.
    https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/have-apra-and-asic-stripped-the-gearbox-of-the-economy-20191113-p53a8g.html
    The Greens are pushing to strip former governor-general Peter Hollingworth of his generous retirement salary over his handling of child sex abuse allegations.
    https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6490904/greens-push-for-hollingworth-to-lose-pension/?cs=14350
    Samantha Dick writes about Scott Morrison’s crackdown on secondary boycotts sparking quite a backlash.
    https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2019/11/13/secondary-boycotts-climate-activists/
    Chloe Adams looks at Australia’s apprenticeship problem and how to improve it.
    https://thenewdaily.com.au/money/work/2019/11/13/australia-apprenticeship-crisis/
    Labor has stated that it will not support the Coalition’s Ensuring Integrity Bill, writes William Olson.
    https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/despite-amendments-alp-still-rejects-union-busting-bill,13309
    Fergus Hunter reports that media industry chiefs say the government is open to reform after meeting with the A-G, while journalist Annika Smethurst’s case continues in the High Court.
    https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/media-bosses-encouraged-by-press-freedom-negotiations-as-smethurst-case-continues-20191113-p53a9r.html
    Missed NBN Co appointments are costing consumers more than $15 million a year in lost time, new analysis has shown.
    https://thenewdaily.com.au/life/tech/2019/11/13/nbn-missed-appointment-cost/
    Doctors and radiographers in Melbourne’s west have warned patients’ lives are at risk unless a 24-hour hospital is built in Melton by 2022.
    https://www.theage.com.au/national/doctors-campaign-for-new-outer-suburban-hospital-as-emergency-wait-times-blow-out-20191112-p539vt.html
    The corruption watchdog has forwarded its brief of evidence against the former Australian of the Year finalist and alleged fraudster Eman Sharobeem to the director of public prosecutions to consider laying charges.
    https://www.theage.com.au/national/icac-sends-brief-on-corrupt-former-australian-of-the-year-finalist-to-dpp-20191113-p53a7p.html
    Professor of law Ben Matthews unpicks the High Court decision on Pell and explains what will happen next.
    https://theconversation.com/what-did-the-high-court-decide-in-the-pell-case-and-what-happens-now-126757
    The floods have exposed Johnson – he is equal parts reckless, careless and useless says Martin Kettle.
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/13/floods-boris-johnson-north-england-election

    Cartoon Corner

    David Rowe is not letting up on Morrison’s thoughts and prayers!

    Cathy Wilcox has had enough!

    Andrew Dyson on Joyce.

    From Matt Golding.





    John Shakespeare with a hot PM.

    Mark David rolls out JWH.

    Peter Broelman with a Barnaby warning scheme.

    Zanetti can’t be criticised for this one.

    Alan Moir goes to extremes here.

    Johannes Leak in full flight for his employer!
    https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/77127050191f2394114b2ebe21986681?width=1024

    From the US










  38. C@t

    I must say, however, that these attacks on the Greens over hazard reduction are completely ridiculous and made out of sheer ignorance of the facts.

  39. ‘Devastating testimony’: Experts stunned after Bill Taylor drops an ‘unexpected bombshell’ at impeachment hearing

    Ambassador Bill Taylor on Wednesday dropped a new bombshell during impeachment hearings in the House of Representatives.

    During his testimony, Taylor revealed one of his aides had overheard a conversation between President Donald Trump and European Union ambassador Gordon Sondland in which the president pressed the ambassador to get Ukraine on board with “the investigations” into former Vice President Joe Biden.

    This conversation occurred on July 26th, or one day after Trump’s infamous phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in which he repeatedly pressed for the Ukrainian government to launch an investigation of the company that had formerly employed Biden’s son.

    This new revelation caught many national security experts and reporters off guard, and many described it as “devastating.”

    “Last Friday, a member of my staff told me of events that occurred on July 26,” Taylor testified.

    “Following that meeting, in the presence of my staff at a restaurant, Ambassador Sondland called President Trump and told him of his meetings in Kyiv,” Taylor testified. “The member of my staff could hear President Trump on the phone, asking Ambassador Sondland about ‘the investigations.’”

    “Ambassador Sondland told President Trump that the Ukrainians were ready to move forward,” Taylor added.

    Taylor’s staff member asked Sondland what the president thought about Ukraine, and the acting ambassador was troubled by his State Department colleague’s response.

    “Ambassador Sondland responded that President Trump cares more about the investigations of Biden, which Giuliani was pressing for,” Taylor testified. “At the time I gave my deposition on October 22, I was not aware of this information. I am including it here for completeness.”

    https://www.rawstory.com/2019/11/devastating-testimony-experts-stunned-after-bill-taylor-drops-an-unexpected-bombshell-at-impeachment-hearing/

  40. ‘I would not defend such a policy’: Impeachment witness Taylor describes fierce confrontation with Pompeo over Ukraine

    Ambassador Bill Taylor on Wednesday delivered explosive testimony in which he said he told Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that he would not defend the Trump administration’s decision to withhold military aid from Ukraine unless it agreed to launch investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden.

    While testifying before Congress, Taylor explained why it was so dangerous with hold up aid to Ukraine during a time when it is at war with Russian-backed separatists.

    “I saw in withholding military aid to Ukraine at a time when hostilities were still active in the east and when Russia was watching closely to gauge the level of American support for the Ukrainian government,” he said. “The Russians, as I said at my deposition, would love to see the humiliation of President Zelenskyy at the hands of the Americans. I told the Secretary that I could not and would not defend such a policy.”

    https://www.rawstory.com/2019/11/i-would-not-defend-such-a-policy-impeachment-witness-taylor-describes-fierce-confrontation-with-pompeo-over-ukraine/

  42. lizzie @ #1788 Thursday, November 14th, 2019 – 6:39 am

    C@t

    I must say, however, that these attacks on the Greens over hazard reduction are completely ridiculous and made out of sheer ignorance of the facts.

    I’d say you may be right as far as it goes. But, you’re really just cherry picking and missing the broader point..

    The biggest criticism of the Greens and the Nats afaic is that at a time when fellow Australians were dying, property and livelihoods were being destroyed and there is genuine fear and concern in the community about the likely further devastation about to be reeked on the community, we have Nats, Greens and their fellow travellers more interested in ramping up the hateful rhetoric, playing the blame game, covering their arses and not showing the leadership that the situation demanded.

    There will be inquiries in to this latest swathe of fires and Governments, people and organisations will be made accountable. However, people using the situation to score these petty political points is disgusting and not what was required.

  43. lizzie @ #1788 Thursday, November 14th, 2019 – 6:39 am

    C@t

    I must say, however, that these attacks on the Greens over hazard reduction are completely ridiculous and made out of sheer ignorance of the facts.

    And I agree with that. I was talking about their, my way or the highway, intransigent approach to the ETS. Just imagine where we could have been today if only they hadn’t stood on their haunches in opposition to it, as Craig Emerson highlighted.


  44. lizzie says:
    Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 6:27 am

    Craig Emerson
    @DrCraigEmerson
    ·
    6h
    Greens vow to block ETS in Senate. Remember this?

    The Australian Greens want the Federal Government’s emission trading scheme legislation put to a vote as soon as possible – so they can defeat it once and for all.
    https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/greens-vow-to-block-ets-in-senate-20090525-bk16.html

    It is about time there was an attempt to force the sanctimonious to face up to what they have done. I bet it doesn’t stop them trying to stop action on climate change for political purposes. The junior anti labor party working hard to keep climate change as the big wedge issue.

    As fire reduction burning has decreased because there is less days to do it, and less resources available ,blaming the sanctimonious impotent Greens is nonsense.

  45. Do you also know what is absolutely reprehensible behaviour? Yesterday, in our NSW State parliament, our Premier, Gladys Berejiklian, had the hide to stand in that place and claim the Coalition government hadn’t cut funding or manpower for the Rural Fire Services!?! That is an outright lie borne of the latest trick by Coalition types to parse what ‘cuts’ means.

    I hope her government goes down in flames, metaphorically speaking, at the next state election.

  46. GG

    I wasn’t deliberately cherry-picking, I was continuing an earlier thought. However, I agree that those on the “right” are also

    more interested in ramping up the hateful rhetoric, playing the blame game, covering their arses and not showing the leadership that the situation demanded.

  47. Does anyone know whether, if the Reserve Bank is forced into Quantitative Easing, that money comes off the Budget bottom line, or do they have enough reserves to cover it without having to go to the government to print the money, so to speak?

  48. BK,

    If you’re around.

    Would you please repost that list of how

    lizzie @ #1796 Thursday, November 14th, 2019 – 7:18 am

    GG

    I wasn’t deliberately cherry-picking, I was continuing an earlier thought. However, I agree that those on the “right” are also

    more interested in ramping up the hateful rhetoric, playing the blame game, covering their arses and not showing the leadership that the situation demanded.

    You might want to split it in to goodies and baddies. However, for me, it’s a pox on all those indulging in the behaviour, as I posted.

    Personally, I believe that Morrison and Albo and their parties have conducted themselves appropriately.

  49. “ Does anyone know whether, if the Reserve Bank is forced into Quantitative Easing, that money comes off the Budget bottom line, or do they have enough reserves to cover it without having to go to the government to print the money, so to speak?”

    The need to have actual gold reserves to print money is a fiction. Most sovereign currency issuers don’t even bother these days. The actual reserve floor is the net value of the capacity of the national economy and the power to tax and the possession of the machinery of enforcement.

  50. BK,

    Would you please repost that list you put up of the aspects of how climate change could be affecting fires. I thought it was a valuable contribution to the discussion over all.

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